Lots of Landlords - GWS

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Report-Great-white-sharks-on-rise-off-California-5578639.php

About 2,400 great white sharks troll the waters off the California coast, a new report shows, a number that may allay some concerns that the super predator is in danger.

A 10-person team of researchers pursued the count, published last week in the journal PLOS ONE, in the wake of earlier claims suggesting that the population of great whites in the eastern Pacific Ocean was perilously low......

Loved this from the comment section.

When you enter the ocean, you enter the food chain. And you don't enter it at the top"
Jacques Cousteau

Interesting..... The earlier newspaper articles were reporting claims of only 300 GWS in support of legislating increased fishing restrictions. This sounds more believable

NJ............ GW on video around small boat!

http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Berks-couple-has-close-encounter-with-great-white-shark/26664300

I have  a aquaintance who lost his hand to a bull shark in Hawaii. The Biologist in area said his  boogie board with a yellow bottom  may have triggered attack as the Shark may have thought he was a sea turtle. So do we have any statistics on the color of  kayaks bitten,flipped or bumped by great whites?

it is hard to pick a color for increased GWS hits...unless so many other factors are figured in before color-then color too later
sales % in the area per color
I see way more yellow, than say dark green,or bone colors
what time of day
how many fow
type of activity engaged in
electrical devices in the kayak & battery volts
area of attack

IMO this factors would be more inviting to Whitey than color
but still I dont want no yellow kayak either 

I'm starting to think I'm less likely to sustain an actual touch/bump/attack in deeper water---a drive by and terror circle sure-but an actual attack imo is going to happen closer to the rocks..like maybe 30-70 fow...
At least I tell myself that in my latest spot which is anywhere from 180-220 fow and feels more like an inspection area 

A color pattern like a floating whale carcass would be awesome!

840 miles of Ca coastline = 4435200 feet of coast line divided by 2,400 sharks Edit---thats 44 million right

=1848  feet of coastline per gws....right?---did I do the math wrong   Edit::::there should be another 0 on the 1848 right

So do we have any statistics on the color of  kayaks bitten,flipped or bumped by great whites?

If I remember correctly...of the NCKAers and CCKFers that have been attacked by GWS while kayak fishing in the last 7 years...they do not have a favorite color.
1 red, 2 yellow, 2 blue, and 1 white.

Rather annoying that the article didn't link to the actual study: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0098078

As I understand it this study re-cooked existing data using different assumptions and came up with a much larger estimate.