Swimming Limited After Stinson Beach Shark Sighting

June 20, 2011 11:59 PM

Shark closure sign at Stinson Beach. (KCBS)

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STINSON BEACH (CBS 5) – A U.S. Coast Guard crew has reported spotting a Great White Shark just a few hundred yards off the coast of Stinson Beach in Marin County.

The shark was spotted between 200 and 300 yards off of the popular North Bay beach Sunday afternoon.

Lifeguards will prevent beachgoers from swimming in deep waters for the next four days as a precaution. Wading into shallow water will still be allowed.

Officials said the shark spotted Sunday appeared to be eight to ten feet long.

KCBS’ Chris Filippi Reports:

Swimming Limited After Stinson Beach Shark Sighting

The offshore area extending from Bodega Bay down to Big Sur is known as the “Red Triangle” for its high number of great white shark sightings. The waters draw them because of the rich supply of food, including sea lions, elephant seals and whale carcasses.

http://lifeinpleasanton.wordpress.com Life In Pleasanton

Great White Sharks are notorious for that region, I doubt I would spend much time ocean swimming there as I dont like to be lunch

Mayor Vaughn

Love to prove that, wouldn’t you? Get your name in the National Geographic?

Mike

I would not call White Sharks notorious, they are predators just like us. Large predators will do what they must do to survive. They eat smaller/weaker predators (us). We in turn eat smaller/weaker predators (chickens). Stinson beach is a White Shark breeding ground, it’s where they belong. Smaller/weaker predators enter at your own risk…
Quint

Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll catch this bird for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down the pond chasin’ bluegills and tommycods. This shark, swallow you whole.
Jeff

You’re gonna need a bigger boat…
Quint

Hey Chief, did ya bring your rubbers? Hah, Hah!
Fat man on Dock

What kind of shark is this?

A Tiger.

A Whatttt…?
Hooper

This was no boating accident, or…..
Hooper

Please don’t smoke in hear!
Martin Brody

Larry, you’re the Mayor of Shark City. These people think you want the beaches open.
lydia

As for airline passengers, the TSA is as much a part of the government as the Post Office is. It isn’t a government entity, just one endorsed and contracted out by the government in large scale.
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Markllar

The only news here is that the Coast Guard flies there all the time and they only just now see a Great White. Scary

CONNECTICUT SSN 042-68-4425

Why does Barry have it? http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/another_look_at_obamas.htm

dam

I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch…Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine – uh, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that’s all! Now why don’t you take a long, close look at this sign. Those proportions are correct.
Freddy

I wish obama would take a swim at stinson beach…

M.W.

Yup. I agree. Preferably during 6/19/11 – 6/24/11

Tom M.

Mike is going to need a bigger dictionary….

Ray

ROTFLMAO! My first thought was similar but not as funny.

HM Phobe

It’s Bush’s fault.

Steve Zissou

“I’m going to go on an overnight drunk and in 10 days I will find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.”
Tim

Thanks a lot drudge for linking this story and luring tea baggers over here. Thanks a lot.

Spanky

Oh, there are plenty of REAL tea baggers in San Francisco….
Mike

Tim shows us his “tolerance and diversity.”
Nelson Muntz

Ha haaaaaaa
JAWS 5

I can see right up them shorts…
Tom M.

Tim,
All that petroleum based lube you and your friends are using is causing global warming…

Quint

Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women!

Doug

An’ divin’ between their legs!

Quint

Don’t forget to throw in Global Warming too.

Uncle Sam

When you add that to your “list” you just sound dumb. Please don’t be dumb.
Jerry Brown

If you outlaw swimming with sharks, only outlaws will swim with sharks.
Tipper Gore

Al Gore invented Great Whites.

Nanuq

Isn’t that racist? Shouldn’t they be Average Whites?

But then I suppose they’d be compelled to form a band.

NoozJunkie

Probably call it White Snake

JMS in TX

If one enters this country without the legal paperwork to live & work here, they are here illegally. Say no to sanctuary cities!

Juat a Laugh

Dang those Great Whites!! Taking away meals from American Sharks!! And no Papers to boot..

KENYAN STEALS WHITE HOUSE

JimP

swimming with sharks, another job Americans won’t do.

Bad Ass Bob The Cattle Rustler

It’s right up there with running with scissors

Huxley

To all these people calling for the impeachment of Obama in relation to this article about sharks, (Hank)- Impeachment proceedings are initiated in the HOUSE which is currently controlled by republicans. So the ball is in your court. But when Pelosi took impeachment off the table for the Bush crimes, I think that pretty much removed any chance of your republicans trying to impeach. They are but different wings on the same chicken.

bobby

there were no “bush crimes” you dumb f$%K..

John

Bush’s election was a crime.

Skeenah

Get a life and stop the Bush crimes crud….why are you people so up tight that you connect a big hungry fish with politics, Obama and Bush-get a life.
Tim

You can thank Drudge for linking this story to his minions of trolls commenting from the swamps of the south, the middle of nowhere, and flatlands of Texas. Look at the bright side, they live in misery, we live in one of the best places on earth.

Max Entropy

Greetings from across the Bay.
– Conservative commenter
PlanoVickie

Texas is the greatest state in this country. But you just stay where you are – we don’t want you here.
SoCal Winner

Um you live in SF, definitely NOT one of the best places on earth, just sayin……
Drew

San Francisco is like a cold, foggy version of Hell.

The water is 55 degrees in August, so I don’t know why any sane person would go swimming there anyway.

Spanky

Yeah, we know, every failure of the Democrats since they took complete control of Congress on January 3, 2007 and every failure of Obama is Bush’s fault. This is truly humorous. Please keep it up.

BTW, remember:

“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices….”
Nancy Pelosi, August 24, 2006.

Bumper

One was spotted off Crescent City two weeks ago.
Had a baby Orca with it.
Poor guy in the small fishing boat thought he’d
be lunch for junior.
They swam around his boat several times and
then splashed down into the depths.

kevin day

A Great White and a baby Orca swimming together? If true, there will be a major offshore earthquake within the next 30 days.

BAGrownup

Someone start a rumour that swimming with Great Whites is good for the environment, and that Leonardo Di Caprio and Jeanine Garafalo said so. Hundreds of people will rush into the water like lemmings, giving the sharks a new food source and cleaning out our country for people who don’t mind working for a living. Win-win.

Jason

So well said.
bobby

and Matt Damon and Sean Penn as well…
ew-3

you trying to make the sharks ill ?
dam

Matt Damon.

Notasheeple

Sounds like a great place for Pelosi to go swimming… Bet that old hag would be tough to eat…

Patrick

Stringy and grisslie, bitter as well!
DJ

The shark would probably gag on her broomstick anyway.
Spanky

The shark would avoid her out of professional courtesy.
madjaam

The Great White would have to pass her before he knew what was in her.

cazman7

well played sir!

Captain Quint

“I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, Chief. I’ll find him for three…but I’ll catch him and kill him for ten.”

Jeff

Is that bounty for the shark in cash or check!?!?

Roger

Throw in Pelosi for dessert!!!

drandy

Sharks don’t eat lawyers. Professional courtesy, you know.

Captain Know It All

The coast of California has ALWAYS BEEN a haven for Great White sharks. Spotting a few makes no difference; they are ALWAYS out there in relatively shallow water. In recent years their numbers have increased as Sea Lion populations have increased due to federal protections.

Sea Lions are a favorite prey for Great Whites. But now that we humans are not allowed to kill Sea Lions, the Great White sharks are staying in the same areas for longer periods of time and breeding more quickly. They almost never attack humans.
Chris from DC

C’mon Hank. Really? ….Really? They SPOTTED a great white, they weren’t looking for them specifically.I’m sure there’s something out there that says all vessels should report “these things” upon sight.

As for airline passengers, the TSA is as much a part of the government as the Post Office is. It isn’t a government entity, just one endorsed and contracted out by the government in large scale.

You’re grasping for hairs here. If you want to actually make a point, you can type it out much more simply by just saying Patriot Act.
James 4:14

Great White. I think this is RACIST.
Kevin Stowell

Yet nothing was said about Great Blacks. Racist rag.

Democrat Plantation

Are there any?

belowe

They are violating the sharks right to eat!
danc

It’s George Bush’s fault.
Mikey

I’m a SSSSHHHHHHAAAAAARRRRRRRKKK!!!!!!!!!!
stevebeagle

why it gotta be Great white ? why it cant be Great Black ?

Haters !

sean patriot

No sucj thing as a Great Black

Chief Brody @ Amity Island

But I’m telling you, and I’m telling everybody at this table that that’s a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I’ve seen one up close. And you’d better do something about this one, because I don’t intend to go through that hell again!

Captain Quint

Hooper drives the boat, Chief.

Matt Hooper

Want a pretzel?
Jeff

Stop playing with yourself Hooper…
Hooper

I don’t have any spit.
Martin

I can do anything I want, I’m the Chief of Police.

hdfe

Global warming… Was it swimming up-side-down?
Mike Copeland

Candygram…
DENNIS

THE TSA???? THESE PEOPLE ARE TOO STUPID TO WORK AT BURGER KING OR TACO BELL…
IT WILL BE FUN TO WATCH TSA AGENTS ARRESTED AT AIRPORTS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT AND BATTERY AND SERVE TIME IN STATE PRISON.
TEXAS WILL END UP KICKING JANETS FAT ASS…
THE CONSTITUTUON GIVES US THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL PERIOD UNDER THE 1ST AMENDMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT CANT CHANGE THAT.
THEY THINK THEY CAN…REFER TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
THERE ARE MORE OF US THEN THERE ARE OF YOU JANET AND TSA AND FBI AND SS AND BROWN SHIRTS ETC….