Sharks Almost Always Swimming Near People in Southern California: New Study
After two years of drone surveillance, a new study published on June 2 by the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab shows some beaches in San Diego and Santa Barbara have great white sharks swimming near people almost always.
According to the study, those in Carpinteria, of Santa Barbara County, and San Diego County’s Del Mar had the most encounters, where 97 percent of the time people were in the ocean near juvenile great white sharks, with at least five spotted on multiple days surveyed.
Beaches in Solana Beach and Coronado in San Diego County had the second most with at least three seen each survey day….