Ultra-Rare Deep-Sea Monster Washes Up on San Diego BeachĪ closer look at the videos, however, shows that what they spotted was a half-eaten sea lion, not a seal - you can tell the difference when you spot the small external ear flaps that only the former has. Scripps Institution of Oceanography Nov 23, 2021 It was a half-eaten seal and, you know, its tail end was totally cut off." So we just wanna go check it out and, yeah, what we saw was not what we expected. "And I just told my buddy Jason, who was doing the driving and everything - I was like, 'I think I see some red object.' I thought it was a … maybe part of a bluefin tuna? Like a loin or something? 'Cause it - you saw this red bit. "We were just starting to fish and as we were moving to another part of the area of the cove to see if there were some yellowtail at that area, we … I saw kind of like a red object in the middle of the water, about 20 feet from us," Gibbons said. and just fishing for yellowtail."Ī couple hours later, the Winnebago posted up about 100 yards west of La Jolla Cove, just outside the area of the state marine reserve. "It's been a bit tough with the yellowtail, so we just took it out on Sunday morning, like, really early. Good water - it's supposed to be pretty glassy, and the yellowtail, they've been biting a bit,' " Gibbons recalled. You know, it's supposed to be nice tomorrow. "My fisherman buddy Jason, he's just like, 'Let's hit the boat. 'As we were looking at the for about a minute, we then suddenly see the shark, you know, 14-foot great white. If you're keeping track, this is a couple weeks after LaBanc saw his big shark. That's why, on July 10, Gibbons found himself up early. When the boat's not parked at Jason's house in Poway, the trio often find themselves out on the water catching the creatures that - along with others caught by fishing buddies - that he then sells at his "market." Gibbons is a co-owner of the Winnegago, a 20-foot Cuddy Cabin he owns along with his friend Jason and another pal. A graduate of UCLA, the 27-year-old has worked at fish markets around the county since he was 18, and his thought behind starting his own business was that it would allow him to mix his love for the ocean with his culinary interests. PB native Nico Gibbons owns a pop-up business - Nico's Fish Market - that makes itself at home in Carlsbad Village outside Al's Cafe when Al (yes, there really is an Al) calls it a day and also sells his fresh, locally caught fish at the city's farmer's market. PB native Nico Gibbons and a couple fishing buddies were aboard about 100 yards off La Jolla Cove on the Winnegabo, their Cuddy Cabin, when they spotted a great white shark nearly as long as their boat. Turns out LaBanc's experience is rare, sure, but not, at least recently in San Diego, unique. Enter at Your Own Risk' - and we were chatting with the lifeguards and they were saying that, I don't know the protocol, but they were saying they usually call when they see one of that size … they were saying that one was bigger than they typically do see out there." "For that one, as we were coming out of the water, the lifeguards were hammering in the signs - you know: 'Shark Sighting. I'm not sure who they called - they called the appropriate, you know, kinda scientific authorities 'cause that one was bigger than usual. And that day they actually put up the signs for the shark warning and the. "They estimated - again, that one actually got closer to me than the one in the video … there was a paddleboarder that said they saw it breach, and they were saying 10-12 feet, which I think seems fairly accurate. "I think the one we saw previously, there was actually some paddleboarders that saw that one, and that one was quite a bit bigger than the one we have on video," LaBanc told NBC 7. As he put it on Instagram: "We're gunna need a bigger boat." Two weeks earlier, though, he had an encounter that was closer in proximity and more of a "jolt," as LaBanc put it. He said he was maybe 150 yards off-shore sharing the deep with a juvenile he estimates was between 6-8 feet. The thing about this day, though, July 9, that was different: For the second time in as many weeks, LaBanc encountered a white shark swimming, this time at a depth of about 30 feet. Austin LaBanc, a 33-year-old otolaryngologist resident at Balboa Park Naval Hospital, has been going in the water regularly off Torrey Pines for decades, even while growing up in Scripps Ranch, where the adult version of Austin now lives with his wife and three daughters. "It was another weekend at Torrey Pines." Austin LaBanc, a 33-year-old otolaryngologist resident at Balboa Park Naval Hospital, has been going in the water regularly off Torrey Pines for decades,
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