A complete surprise to the person behind the camera, what may be a shark appears to have "photobombed" two Southern California boys as they rode the Manhattan Beach waves over the weekend.
A South Bay woman took the photograph near 31st Street in Manhattan Beach on Friday, and she said she didn’t even realize the sea creature hiding in her photo until she checked the camera in the car.
"My son is the one closest to the shark," the woman, June Emerson, told NBC4 via email. "Whatever it is, it was quite a shock to see while reviewing shots of the day on our way home."
Surfers and lifeguards told Emerson it was definitely a shark, but she decided to tell her 12-year-old son, Quinn, and his friend that it was a dolphin so as not to scare them out of SoCal waters permanently.
Though the woman may never know for sure whether the photobomber is a shark or a dolphin, the Southern California coast -- especially Manhattan Beach -- has been no stranger to sharks in recent months. Multiple sharks were spotted swimming in Manhattan Beach waters in August, just hundreds of yards away from swimmers and surfers.
In November, a surfer captured his encounter with a 10-foot shark on camera while riding the waves in Manhattan Beach.
A rare great white shark was spotted off the coast of Dana Point in October, and several Great White sharks and blue sharks were spotted in October eating a whale carcass in the Santa Barbara Channel between Ventura and the Channel Islands National Park.
Source: NBClosangeles.com
11 comments:
I would probably be scared of water for the rest of my life if I found such a thing on a holiday photo.
I live here in California and I can tell you that, at any one time, there's likely to be a great white in the water close to shore. Thank goodness they don't really like to eat humans and, when they bite into one of us by mistake, usually spit us out when we don't taste like their favorite meal: Seal.
Oh my...I am not sure if I would ever go surfing again! I know I would never go back to that spot again for sure!
Imagine what a shock that must be if you saw it while surfing. It would scare the hell out of me for sure.
Those two boys were sure lucky! living in Florida we get used to seeing a shark or few, but not THAT close!
Definitely a shocking experience, but a story you'd never run bored of telling!
Whoa! That would FREAK me out if it happened to me!
That actually looks like a shark, not a dolphin. Nice photo... but if it happened to me, I'd never swin in those waters again.
Yeah, uhm, I don't think I would ever go in those waters again!!
This sure would change my mind of going to the waters again.
I would not be going back in the water!
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