Man, check out Seal Beach today! 12/21

[RacinM3]

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2005-12/21078758.jpg

[RacinM3]

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2005-12/21078761.jpg

[dando]

All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.

:cool:

Sure beats the heck outta the white stuff I've been seeing outside my window for the past 2 weeks. :(

-Kevin

[indyfan31]

I wish you wouldn't post pictures like that, it just makes more people wanna move here. ;)
Seriously though, it's the first day of WINTER, it's in the 70s and we've got 15 ft waves on west facing beaches; this is the place to be (unless you're the guy on the bike path that got wiped out by a wave!). Did you take those shots M3? :thumbup:

[Gangrel]

Wow...look at all them folks dressing up like seals and jumping into the Great White feeding grounds! :D

[Methanolandbrats]

Surfing is fun, but so is winter. Here's how we have fun in Wisconsin! (not my photos)http://www.waiautox.org/2003/03wag1.html

[Wheel-Nut]

Knarley . . . . dooood . . . . .

[Wheel-Nut]

Here's how we do it in Texas, hurricane swell. Katrina.
http://www.surfhousesurfcam.com/gallery/mikhail/images/SurfsideChannel.jpg

[Ankf00]

Galveston... :laugh:

[Wheel-Nut]

Surfside, in "the channel" . . . .Here's G-Town. Again, Katrina swell. . . :eek:

http://www.surfhousesurfcam.com/gallery/jjanik2/images/surf5.jpg

[RacinM3]

Nope, I didn't take them, they're LA Times photos. I did go down to Cliffs in Huntington by my house....it was big but not really surfable. I had to work all week so I missed out :( .

I heard another swell is filling in for the weekend so maybe I'll get a little Christmas surf! :thumbup:

[RaceCat]

Hey, I was there! I work in Seal Beach and couldn't resist heading down to the pier on the lunch break. It was great. Should be bigger this week on the 28, 29th or so they say! pretty cool.

RaceCat

[cart7]

Wow...look at all them folks dressing up like seals and jumping into the Great White feeding grounds! :D

Apparently the dining is happening up the coast right now, I'm sure it's just a matter of time till they move down the coast to better feeding grounds. :gomer:


Surfer Recounts Shark Attack

SEASIDE, Ore., Dec. 26, 2005


(CBS) Brian Anderson fought off a 10-foot Great White shark while surfing off the coast of Oregon on Saturday. He tells The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith how he survived the vicious attack.

Anderson, an avid surfer, says the attack happened suddenly and unexpectedly.

"There was a lot of guys out surfing earlier. And a lot of the guys had gone
in by this time. And I'm kind of outside, the only one outside. Then my friend, George, was kind of on the inside of me and another friend of mine, John Gardner, was just getting out on the rocks so there was only two of us at this time. As I was waiting outside I just felt this shark thing grab my leg and it just happened in a split second," he recalls.

As he turned around, Anderson, 30, says he came face to face with the shark.

"I was holding my board in the left hand and with my right hand the nose of the shark came up in my face. I was able to punch it in the nose and that made it let go," he remembers.

"It was grabbing me," he says. "And as a surfer, you kind of go over those things. What if I got attacked by a shark, what would I do? They usually tell you to hit it in the nose and the eyes."

Anderson says the whole ordeal was surreal. "Early this morning I was just sleeping in bed and going over and over and it just doesn't seem real. And just punching that thing, I felt its rubbery feeling of the shark. And I could see the little black dots on its nose just really up close. It was just crazy."

The shark took a chunk out of Anderson's leg and he needed 70 stitches for lacerations he suffered to his calf and ankle.

After fighting off the shark, Anderson says he was not sure if he might be attacked again.

"That was the pretty terrifying part paddling back in because you really don't know where it is or you can't tell what it's doing," he says. "You just want to get back on the beach as fast as possible. And my foot was just kind of a numb ball back behind me. And I just wanted to get into shore and control my bleeding and just make it out alive."

Once on the beach, his friends struggled to carry him back 300 yards to the parking lot.

"They tried carrying me on a pallet and the pallet broke. Finally I was on the shoulders of those guys and I told my friend to grab where the bite mark was, where the bleeding was. He held my leg and kept it from bleeding. We made it back and the ambulance finally showed up. I was just trying to keep myself from passing out," he remembers.

What are his thoughts of having survived a shark attack?

"I had an angel watching out over me, for sure," he says.

[Spicoli]

Let's hit it dudes!

http://regencymovies.com/images/movies/3513.jpg

And, I've always meant to ask the producers and writers this:

Why the *&$% did I not get to hook up with Phoebe Cates in that movie? :confused:

http://www.peakpeak.com/~jking/phoebe/tigress1.jpg

what could have been man. :shakehead

[JohnHKart]

With regards to those waves......I can kind of understand surfers taking a chance and then getting killed, even though that is stupid. A surfer did get killed in San Diego county last week. But what I don't understand is the guy that took his son out in that surf last Friday in their sailboat and ended up losing his son because of it. He should be charged with gross stupidity and negligence although he's already paid the highest price for his ignorance. We all new about these waves all week, did this loser have his head under a rock?

John

[Gangrel]

Apparently the dining is happening up the coast right now, I'm sure it's just a matter of time till they move down the coast to better feeding grounds. :gomer:


Surfer Recounts Shark Attack

SEASIDE, Ore., Dec. 26, 2005

Just a matter of time...

I have had plenty of shark encounters below the waves, and when you have an 80cf aluminum tank strapped to your back and you are making all kinds of bubbles, the sharks don't really want much of anything to do with you. But as low as the risk of shark attack is regardless of the activity, surfing multiplies it so many times that I would never even consider trying it. Guess it is just my self-preservation instinct... :D

[G.]

Surfside, in "the channel" . . . .Here's G-Town. Again, Katrina swell. . . :eek:

http://www.surfhousesurfcam.com/gallery/jjanik2/images/surf5.jpgIf you look at that picture long enough, you can see the Ocean!

[oddlycalm]

Apparently the dining is happening up the coast right now, I'm sure it's just a matter of time till they move down the coast to better feeding grounds. :gomer:


Surfer Recounts Shark Attack

SEASIDE, Ore., Dec. 26, 2005 He got released from the hospital yesterday and most of the stitches are out. This happens every few years around here. No reefs to keep the sharks out. Nobody killed that I can recall, but there are folks missing chunks and there have been boards with serious chunks bitten out. Give me a reef protected lagoon and a boogie board every time.

oc

[Ankf00]

how common are shark attacks on surfers every year? is it the equivalent of an airliner crashing mid-air or actually a frequent occurance?

[RichK]

how common are shark attacks on surfers every year? is it the equivalent of an airliner crashing mid-air or actually a frequent occurance?

Usually ~ 1/year around here. The Florida to Carolinas coast has had quite a few per year lately.

[devilmaster]

speaking of sharks.....

Jaws in 30 seconds starring bunnies

http://www.angryalien.com/0804/jawsbunnies.asp

[Gnam]

No shark has ever survived an encounter with Chuck Norris.