Great White Shark Spotted Swimming Near Pacifica Municipal Pier
A 12-foot shark was sighted Friday swimming in the waters just south of the Pacifica Municipal Pier along Sharp Park Beach, authorities said.
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A 12-foot shark was sighted Friday swimming in the waters just south of the Pacifica Municipal Pier along Sharp Park Beach, authorities said.
The Shark Research Committee says there were nine unprovoked attacks in 2017 -- eight in California and one in Washington, up from five the year before.
The man was spear-fishing when he was attacked by the shark, suffering massive blood loss, sheriff's officials said.
It would have been epic if there were sharks that swam in a straight line and raced Michael Phelps...
A sheriff's helicopter crew warned a group of paddle-boarders to get out of the ocean after spotting more than a dozen great white sharks along the Southern California coast.
A video of what is believed to be a great white shark leaping out of the water at Ocean Beach just beyond a line of surfers was making the rounds Thursday.
A lifeguard spotted a shark about 250 yards off Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz on Saturday.
A two-mile stretch of a southern California beach will remain closed on Monday after a woman was possibly attacked by a shark.
A spokeswoman for Gulf of theFarallones National Marine Sanctuary says most of the sharks were between 10 and 15 feet long and a couple of them were about 18 feet long.
Several Orange County beaches remain closed Friday after a surfer reported a run-in with an aggressive shark.
A surfer escaped injury on Saturday after a great white shark bit her board off California's central coast.
A Bay Area man had to stop his quest to be the first to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands due to Great White sharks in the water.
Several great white sharks surrounded a marine biologist sitting in a kayak off the coast of Santa Cruz, and he has the photos to prove it.
A competition for junior lifeguards had to be called off after more than a dozen great white sharks near the cement ship in the Aptos area south of Santa Cruz.
When lifeguards at a popular Orange County surfing spot decided to use a high-tech drone to keep swimmers safe from shark attacks, they got a chilling eyeful.
More than a dozen young great white sharks were spotted in waters off Sunset Beach in Huntington Beach.
For the first time ever, online and in real time, scientists as well as the public can detect and track the locations of white sharks along California's central coast.
Three California beaches along coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base have been closed because of a shark attack.
Recent shark sightings in Southern California, one the ended in an attack on Saturday, is enough of a reason to want to stay dry on shore this summer. But data shows shark attacks are down.
A man who was attacked by a great white shark off a Southern California beach is describing how quickly a routine swim turned into a bloody nightmare.
Stinson Beach reopened to swimmers, surfers and boogie boarders on Sunday after a five-day closure prompted by a great white shark sighting.
The Chief of the Stinson Beach Fire Department has confirmed to KCBS that a great white shark was spotted off the beach Monday afternoon, prompting a ban on swimming and surfing for at least the next several days.
The crew of a tug boat said they were at the Hyde Street Pier fueling up when they spotted the shark. They were not able to determine if it was a Great White or a Mako.
Several shark warning signs found posted in the Pleasure Point area of Santa Cruz were fake, state parks officials said Thursday. The bogus signs warned people of two shark sightings and one shark attack recently.
The most feared predator in the ocean received new protections Wednesday when a California commission decided the great white shark should be studied as a potential endangered species.
