Shark attacks girl, 15, off Catalina

I wonder if she got any teeth as souveniers. Glad shes OK. The sightings over there are really increasing. Only a matter of time...

Here is a image of her board, my friend at Cat says lifeguards have part of a triangle shaped tooth.
One report said Toyon Bay but the local Chanel 7 news reports 1 mile North of Avalon. The East end of Catalina gets some big ones from time to time.

Don

The bottom of the board, 100% Great White for sure.

Don

Glad the girl is OK. Thats a big bite.

Glad she wasn't injured. She's got a cool story to tell for the rest of her life!

Quote from ladvr

Whitey went for the decapitation kill.

Look at the distance on the on the bottom jaw tooth center lines, that was not a juvenile GWS. The shark was at a approximate 40 degree or greater angle to the board and just barely touched the deck with the top jaw teeth which are more robust and wider than the slim lowers. I would want no part of that ''test bite'' on my flesh
or artery's:@

Don.

That is no joke..a diver in La Jolla found a dead young dolphin with a bite out of the bottom of it yesterday...bite was wide too (elbow to fingertips plus 1 more handlength). Gives me the heebi-geebis

Quote from merman

That is no joke..a diver in La Jolla found a dead young dolphin with a bite out of the bottom of it yesterday...bite was wide too (elbow to fingertips plus 1 more handlength). Gives me the heebi-geebis

Around 1994 I was walking around main beach area in Laguna at night with some buddies, and we see a bunch of people with flashlights down a waters edge. We walk down, and see a fresh dead seal with most of its body gone. One very large bit, clear as day. The image has never left my mind. Nature is awesome in it's displays of power.

That's crazy. So what's the rest of the story? I take it the girl was knocked off her board right? What was the depth of water?

i read that she was knocked off initially but scrambled back on the board....amazing