TIME has a great story up by John Cloud called Shark Frenzy in Solana Beach. It has some great quotes: The media was fascinated because shark attacks are sickeningly grisly and cosmically rare. Your chances of being killed by a shark in any given year are about 1 in 280 million, according to the Harvard …
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Shark bite and death at Solana Beach
A triathlete in training swimming with 10 others at Fletcher Cove was bitten once on the legs by a shark, and died from blood loss this morning. My heart goes out to relatives and friends. Hopefully this incident will be portrayed respectfully and accurately in the media. This was an unfortunate incident, but it is …
Cold canyon dive
Photos of diving La Jolla Canyon Better late than never. Adam, Mani, and had a lovely Sunday morning dive on the 6th. Visibility in La Jolla Canyon was 20 feet or more, making it very bright compared to usual. The visibility was probably the result of deep upwellings, given the 48F (9C) water temperature. Brrrr. …
Night dive at the shores 3/11/08
I had a gorgeous dive last night – lots of bioluminescence, some octopus, and tons of small critters out. There were only a few squid around, but apparently enough to fish for, as there were about 6 squid boats just outside the preserve. No photos from this dive as I didn’t have the batteries for …
Squid fishing in La Jolla
During a night dive last week we noticed a number of brightly lit boats off shore and guessed they were fishing for squid. That’s exactly what they are according to the UT: The mystery lights belong to a fleet of seiners fishing for market-sized squid. Witnesses have seen as many as 10 to 20 boats …