This is why I stay out of the ocean. http://q13fox.com/2015/02/24/dead-seal-f...ark-state-says/

Interesting. I was just at Ocean Park last week for the clam dig.

How would they know it was eaten by a GWS rather than say, an orca? Seems more likely that a pod of transient orca were in the area during the winter, than a GWS. Perhaps it left a tooth behind in the carcass.

I like to surf and no less than 10 people have e-mailed me the article.

They sent the seal to CA for a necropsy and determined it was chomped in half by an 18 foot GWS.

I won't get back in the ocean again until steelhead season winds down, but sharks are just part of the equation. Albeit a very small part.

I will admit to getting a little freaked out at times out there. I am often the first one out at Westhaven and other spots, and when there is a lot of seals around it can get a little spooky. Dolphins come by quite a bit and I am definitely guilty of a double take at that dorsal fin.

Tooth size and tooth gap are pretty reliable meaures of what bit something when it comes to sharks...and an orca couldn't bite one in half, their teeth aren't sharp that way. It would be an ugly torn in half animal if an orca shook it enough to break it in half.

Fish on...

Todd

I wish the ocean was full of great whites and every last seal and sea lion.

Good for the shark....................now go eat more.Good luck,


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