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04/25/2008: "Fatal SoCal Shark Attack"

Having just returned from San Antonio, where I did the typical tourist-y things, I can understand the need to see the sights when visiting a new area. In three months, the group I met with this week will reconvene, this time in Carlsbad, CA, where they'll probably want to visit the usual places, like the Zoo and Sea World and the beach. They might want to think twice about that last one, though - a swimmer was killed by a shark this morning just south of there ...

The man was swimming with a group of about 10 other swimmers, heading north from Fletcher Cove, when the attack occurred. The group regularly swims at the cove.

Witnesses told lifeguards that a "big gray shark" attacked the man, biting both his legs, said Craig Miller, a Solana Beach lifeguard.

"I can't remember a shark ever being in this area before," Miller said.

Certain websites (*cough* 976-TUNA *cough*) are already spreading the hysteria by claiming it was a great white shark, and it's true that they've been seen in that part of the ocean before. But lifeguard helicopters are currently searching the area, looking for the shark, and it would be very premature to make such a declaration.

And if anyone is thinking of recreating the shark hunt in "Jaws", well, just go have another beer ...

More as we hear it.