A group of surfers had a frighteningly close encounter with a massive great white shark off the coast of San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday, with the predator even splashing one surfer in the face.
Dave, a local surfer who has spent the past two years using a drone to spot sharks around the Pismo Beach area, captured stunning footage of the massive predator lurking just beneath the surfers’ boards Wednesday morning.
“Hands down the most vivid, clear water shark encounter I have ever recorded… It’s 9’6” long,” Dave wrote while sharing the jaw-dropping footage on Instagram.
A group of surfers had a frighteningly close encounter with a massive great white shark off the coast of San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday, when the nearly 10-foot-long predator splashed one of them in the face.
Dave, a local surfer who has spent the past two years using a drone to spot sharks around the Pismo Beach area, captured stunning footage of the massive predator lurking just beneath the surfers’ boards Wednesday morning.
“Hands down the most vivid, clear water shark encounter I have ever recorded… It’s 9’6” long,” Dave wrote while sharing the jaw-dropping footage on Instagram.
The massive shark was spotted in Oceano, San Luis Obispo County.
The experienced surfer said he was “happy it ended up just being a close encounter.”
Dave shared the chilling footage with several friends, who could hardly believe what they were seeing. One even questioned whether the video was AI-generated.
“How about ask the Pier Avenue crew if it’s real,” Dave responded.
The startling encounter came just days after a shark knocked a fisherman off his kayak near Leffingwell Landing in San Luis Obispo County.
A massive shark lurked beneath surfers off the coast of San Luis Obispo County, California, on Wednesday morning.
The fisherman managed to climb back onto his kayak and attempted to paddle to shore, “but punctures in the hull caused the kayak to take on water, forcing him to swim to shore,” the Cambria Fire Department said in a statement.
After examining photos of the damaged kayak, Dr. Chris Lowe of California State University Long Beach’s Shark Lab said “it was reasonable to assume the kayak had been struck by a shark.”
