Nor Cal shark attack

**~mikey b** · 10-31-2012, 09:41 AM

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**Hutch** · 10-31-2012, 09:44 AM

No attacks from January to July.

16 local attacks -- none fatal -- have been recorded since 1990

* Aug. 28, 1990, surfing Trinidad Head

* Sept. 5, 1990, kayaking Trinidad Head

* Dec. 4, 1991, diving Shelter Cove

* Aug. 18, 1992, surfing Klamath River

* Sept. 13, 1992, surfing Gold Beach, Ore.

* Oct. 30, 1993, surfing Eureka

* Sept. 3, 1995, diving Shelter Cove

* Aug. 24, 1997, surfing Clam Beach

* Nov. 4, 2000, surfing Bunkers, Humboldt Bay

* Sept. 21, 2002, surfing Moonstone Beach

* Sept. 23, 2002, surfing Cape Kiwanda, Ore.

* Sept. 20 2004, surfing Gold Beach, Ore.

* Nov. 11, 2004, surfing Bunkers, Humboldt Bay

* Oct. 21, 2005, surfing Klamath River

* Sept. 27, 2007, surfing Moonstone Beach

* Sept. 11, 2011, surfing Samoa Beach

**supermodel159** · 10-31-2012, 11:16 AM

Crazy. I saw something online about a windsurfer getting bumped off Davenport Landing... Lots of hungry (big) fish come fall.

**Ottime** · 10-31-2012, 12:37 PM

^^^gulp. I was surfing rifling rights literally just around the corner from there for two hours this morning. By my self.

**supermodel159** · 10-31-2012, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

^^^gulp. I was surfing rifling rights literally just around the corner from there for two hours this morning. By my self.

Might want to reconsider...(unless it is that good).

**Ottime** · 11-01-2012, 08:08 AM

Not reconsidering. Those guys are everywhere. At least around these parts. I figure driving to the break, I am much more likely to get in a car accident than I am to get bit. I have been chased out before at this particular spot and I left yesterday after two hours of super fun waves partly because u was tired, but mainly because I was having shark thoughts. Not only was I solo, but you need to climb a 60 foot cliff on a crumbling goat trail, and then walk several hundred yards just to get to the car. That would be hard to do with a bite.

**Long duc dong** · 11-07-2012, 01:00 PM

You definitely enter the food chain up north. Glad this guy was luckier than the guy in north SB county.

**Ottime** · 11-07-2012, 01:27 PM

^^^yes, you are in the midst of the food chain. As long as you don't get bit, it is kind of cool. Lots of wildlife in the water and it is rare you don't have a visit from some sort sea mammal during a session.

**BFD** · 11-07-2012, 02:13 PM

My son transferred to Humboldt for this semester to work on his water sports. Spoke to him the other night. i think this shark attack shook him up. He also saw a mountain lion last week. said something to the affect of missing AK where all you had to worry about were bears. Vibes to the injured person. stay safe have fun.