{"id":493640,"date":"2026-06-24T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:39:09","slug":"watch-paddleboarders-stalked-by-great-white-shark-off-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493640\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Paddleboarders stalked by great white shark off California coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 24 (UPI) &#8212; A drone camera captured footage when two paddleboarders found themselves stalked by a great white shark off the California coast.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Ross said she and her paddleboarding partner went out to intentionally try to find the shark that had been spotted off the Santa Barbara coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ross said she didn&#8217;t realize until returning to shore and reviewing footage captured by her uncle&#8217;s drone camera that the shark had actually found them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We paddled pretty far out&#8230; He said that he saw something and that we had to head back to shore right now. But I didn&#8217;t see it because I was just looking forward, paddling. So I didn&#8217;t know what he saw, how big it was, so we just went straight back. But that was a little nerve-racking,&#8221; Ross <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/shark-stalks-paddleboarders-off-san-barbara-coast-drone-video-shows\/19364345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told KABC-TV.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ross said the experience has not put her off paddleboarding and she is hoping to encounter an even larger shark in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter came about two months<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/surfer-chased-by-great-white-for-10-minutes-video-11962282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> after foil surfers<\/a> Tavis Boise and Ron Takeda found themselves pursued by a great white shark off Santa Barbara. Their encounter was also caught on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 24 (UPI) &#8212; A drone camera captured footage when two paddleboarders found themselves stalked by a great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,5593,111,139,69,5591,147,5592,406],"class_list":["post-493640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}