Tourists record great white shark devouring seal near Alcatraz

[petronius]

A group of tourists got to witness the savagery of nature up close and personal over the weekend as a great white shark munched on a seal just a few feet off a dock on Alcatraz Island.

The Saturday afternoon predation event, as experts call it, or lunch, to us common folks, is the first of its kind caught on video inside the confines of the Bay, said David McGuire, Director of the San Francisco-based shark conservation group Shark Stewards and Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences.

“This is the first recorded predation event I know in the San Francisco Bay,” he said in a statement. “It definitely looks like a white shark, about 8-10 feet from the phone video sent to us. The tourists were pretty excited.”

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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tourists-record-great-white-shark-devouring-seal-6566229.php

I guess the swimming events that leave from Alcatraz just got more interesting!

(Video at link: not too bad, but it contains what you'd expect...)

[frylock]

1. And of course the video is in portrait format

[JunkYardDogg]

2. I did not know that Trump was in San Fran that day

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