Despite 12 shark attack deaths in California over the past 60 years, encounters with white sharks around the Central Coast waters have occurred frequently lately.
Great whites, man and nature collide on ocean
Great whites have been around for 350 million years and the ocean is clearly their domain, but they really aren’t after terrestrial human flesh. Many locals and visitors in the central coast have a conditioned and very real fear of sharks. In many cases it’s the number one reason people won’t enter the ocean water, aside from the chilliness.