{"id":365448,"date":"2026-06-18T08:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:10:23","slug":"drone-footage-shows-shark-circling-surfer-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365448\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Footage Shows Shark Circling Surfer In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1200x695-2-11.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325733\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-325733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1200x695-2-11-670x388.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-325733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: @corfino_photography<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/favicon-surf.png\" alt=\"The Inertia\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" class=\"lazyload\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that more and more consumer drones flying over lineups has resulted in more and more footage of sharks nearby. If nothing else, the constant reminders that they\u2019re often nearby is reassurance that the apex predators have little to no interest in us. They swim around, they keep their distance, and typically dart off without surfers having any clue. A Northern California drone videographer has seen that sequence play out before, but one moment on June 10 stood out precisely because the shark displayed a little more curiosity than usual by circling a solo surfer in Aptos, California.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, Nick Bertocchini, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/article\/drone-video-shark-surfer-seascape-beach-aptos\/71573372\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told a local news station<\/a> the surfer got out of the water after the incident. He elaborated on the whole encounter when he posted the video on his own Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of time flying my drone watching sharks around surfers and this was one of the only times I was actually nervous,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI tried to warn the surfer, Rex, who I talked to afterwards, by revving the drones motors. And moving to the side of the shark. It\u2019s something that has worked in the past in alerting surfers of sharks. Usually the sharks are slightly curious and move on quickly but this one seemed a little more investigative than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a common misconception that circling is a predatory act. It\u2019s observational behavior. You\u2019d never want to find yourself on the other end of that encounter long enough for an animal to decide it wants to investigate from a closer distance, but swimming away frantically or erratically can trigger a shark\u2019s instinct to chase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important to have a good mental state when you go in the water with sharks, because they\u2019re apex predators. And while I can\u2019t prove that they can read your mind, they can certainly read your body,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinertia.com\/environment\/sharks-mental-state-ocean-ramsey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> shark expert Ocean Ramsey once told The Inertia.<\/a> \u201cA lot of people aren\u2019t too aware that they actually give away a lot of information in their body language. From studying psychology and animal behavior, you start to become sensitive to body language.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: @corfino_photography It\u2019s not surprising that more and more consumer drones flying over lineups has resulted in more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,44508,2193],"class_list":["post-365448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-drone","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}