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>The coast has been fantastic this last week. I was getting tweaked with all
>the fog and the flat sessions. We've had wind and some real waves all
>week.
Yes, indeed. Nice powered sessions, chest to overhead high stuff. Huge
difference from just a week ago. Fog's coming in, so it's probably gonna
shut down :-(
On the topic of sharks, my understanding is that there was a sighting by
surfers at Tunitas Creek this week. It cleared the water. If I'm not
mistaken, Tunitas is near Ano Nuevo, as is Waddell. In case it didn't
get mentioned, Ano is sea lion breeding grounds, the shark's food source.
Davenport, as someone mentioned, does have the most recorded hits. If
you go to the Surfing Museum in Santa Cruz, there's a big red dot at
Davenport on a map of California showing the geographic distribution of
hits.
I found this week while looking at the Discovery Channel site:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/ISAF/ISAF.htm
They've got tips about avoiding attacks (including some "helpful" ones
like "don't go out too far"). According to this site, Florida leads in
attacks, but California and Hawaii have many. I've also heard the stuff
about not peeing in your wetsuit, but for some reason, menstruation is OK
according to a couple scuba sites which I lost the links for.
Kinda weird that someone was asking about sharks and the attack at Kanaha
happened eh? Anyone know how many confirmed shark on windsurfer attacks
have occurred? My understanding is it's 3, including the recent one.
-Ed
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