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.
Drones giving us a close-up view of California’s great white sharks that we’ve never had before
Updated May 09, 2021;
Posted May 09, 2021
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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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.
LOS ANGELES â 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.
Gauna launches his video drone, hoping to spy what might be moving stealthily among them â great white sharks.
In decades past, this might have seemed a quixotic venture. Great whites were thought to be somewhat rare in these southern waters, wandering now and then from the wilder coast up north. Most surfers considered it supremely improbable that one of these apex predators was hunting for food at their break.
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