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Fish Talk / Re: Official GWS Thread
« on: November 23, 2022, 08:59:31 AM »Lovers point is very sharky . Many sightings in that area. I had an encounter there many moons ago.
The first documented fatal GWS attack in CA happened at Lover’s Cove in the 1950’s. Detail of the event with a couple postmortem pictures (not for the squeamish):
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/9321b6e2-9512-485e-9447-66aadc7376f5/content
On a lighter note, in August 1899, five out of six Japanese fishermen were killed in Monterey Bay by a basking shark … yup, a basking shark. The thing wasn’t trying to eat them, it was just really pissed off because the Japs speared it, as if it was a whale. Oops! Short article:
https://www.sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/pdf_directory/1899.08.23.R-BaskingShark-Monterey.pdf