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Great white sharks? Drones show they are closer to the Pacific shoreline than we thought
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Drone photographer Carlos Gauna views a great white shark on his monitor as he captures a video of great white sharks along the Santa Barbara County coast, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)TNS
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By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES Carlos Gauna surveys the wind-blown waves off a popular Santa Barbara County beach. It is a cold, gray afternoon and only a few people are in the water: a father teaching his son to surf, a lone man wading in the whitewash.
Yamilla Samara is not afraid to swim with the sharks. In fact, she’s currently studying the diets of juvenile white sharks off the coast of Southern California as a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach. And this weekend, audiences across the country have a chance to see her at work.
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Samara, as well as her scientific undertakings, will be featured in a TV segment Saturday morning for a CBS show called Mission Unstoppable, hosted by i-Carly’s and Despicable Me’s Miranda Cosgrove.
Born and raised in Managua, Nicaragua, Samara’s love for sea life came at an early age. A lake in Nicaragua with access to the ocean was once teeming with bull sharks, but overfishing eventually drove the species to extinction at the lake. The tale always troubled Samara, which fueled her desire to study sharks.
In 2020, Cal State Long Beach researchers tagged 21 sharks in San Diego County. Author: Shannon Handy (Reporter) Updated: 6:37 PM PDT May 12, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. Researchers from Cal State Long Beach are expanding efforts to study shark behavior along the Del Mar coastline.
It comes as more sightings have been reported in the area.
Del Mar lifeguards have been working with the researchers to track sharks in hopes of figuring out why they re here, and their impact on beachgoers. So we ve seen up to 10 sharks at a time in an area probably the size of two football fields, said Dr. Chris Lowe, professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at Cal State Long Beach.