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Headless Seal Carcass Litters Malibu Coast

Saturday, July 25, 2009 By 5 Comments

img 3294 300x225 Headless Seal Carcass Litters Malibu CoastThe headless body of a seal washed up yesterday afternoon off of the same Malibu coast where a shark was spotted Thursday.

But county lifeguard Capt. Terry Harvey said there could be no connection between the shark and the seal.

“There are all kinds of carcasses that wash up,” Harvey said. “It happens often. You can’t always relate it to that.”

Harvey said he hasn’t heard of another spotting of the shark, which was first sighted yesterday about a quarter-mile off the coast, which is why he believed there was no connection between the two.

Although some believed the shark could have been a Great White, KTLA5 reported it was possible that it could have been a Mako, which is similar in appearance.

Harvey said he did not know what type of shark it was but did know it was “fairly sizeable.”

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  • tbone

    Here is the real deal man . The first thing to rot on a dead seal/sea lion is the head. They break off pretty easily as they decay. A great white will rarely hit the head of a seal. I live and surf on Monterey Bay and see these headless seals every year. It is not shark related. If it was white shark related the remainder of the seal would be eaten. Do you think white sharks go around bitting boney heads off seals and then say man I am full now?
    Get real they want the high calorie blubber.

  • tbone

    Here is the real deal man . The first thing to rot on a dead seal/sea lion is the head. They break off pretty easily as they decay. A great white will rarely hit the head of a seal. I live and surf on Monterey Bay and see these headless seals every year. It is not shark related. If it was white shark related the remainder of the seal would be eaten. Do you think white sharks go around bitting boney heads off seals and then say man I am full now?
    Get real they want the high calorie blubber.

    • Nickm

      I don’t know about that; Malibu is a ‘brooding site’ for young white sharks; maybe as they get larger & prepare to ‘transition’ from fish to pinnipeds, they start to ‘practice’ hunting larger prey? The South African whites often strike penguins–reason is unknown but maybe mistakes, practice or just ‘sport’;

  • http://LAsurfpix.com/ Randy Wright

    Ooops,
    that should be:
    Sharkresearchcommittee.com

  • http://LAsurfpix.com/ Randy Wright

    After viewing Dave Ogle's bitchin' recent footage of the GWS off of the Malibu bluffs near Pepperdine, I asked Ralph Collier, renowned West Coast shark expert about it's identity, he told me it was a Great White…Check out his site too:
    SharkReseacrhCommittee.com