{"id":679047,"date":"2026-06-02T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679047\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:09:13","slug":"great-white-sharks-filmed-unnervingly-close-to-surfers-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679047\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Sharks Filmed Unnervingly Close to Surfers in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This shark isn\u2019t looking for a meal. A human one, anyway. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n

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If you surf in Southern California \u2014 or many other places, for that matter \u2014 you\u2019re sharing the lineup. Not just with other surfers, but with sea life. Great white sharks, to be exact. In the video you see here, placid great whites are seen cruising the lineup, just behind where the waves are breaking.<\/p>\n

Despite their fearsome reputation, the chances of being attacked by a shark are extraordinarily low, but that doesn\u2019t make the prospect of an attack any less frightening. We humans are prone to panic, and Hollywood movies like Jaws in particular<\/a> helped up the panic about sharks.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing both drone and underwater footage,\u201d wrote Carlos Gauna<\/a>, the creator of this little YouTube offering, \u201cthis video documents how white sharks move through crowded stretches of coastline, often without causing any reaction at all from the people nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, many people these days are aware that if a drone is flying over you, it could mean there\u2019s a shark around. But not everyone is aware of that nuance.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I continued filming along the coastline,\u201d Gauna said, \u201ca group of kayakers were paying close attention to the drone overhead. What they didn\u2019t realize was that I was filming several white sharks moving quietly beneath the surface\u2026 they were seemingly completely unaware.\u201d<\/p>\n

And honestly, most of the time we are completely unaware that sharks are in the water nearby. And that\u2019s probably a good thing, given our propensity to panic.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This shark isn\u2019t looking for a meal. A human one, anyway. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot If you surf in Southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[295949,234109,12604,79,13367,201],"class_list":["post-679047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-carlos-gauna","tag-great-white","tag-great-white-sharks","tag-science","tag-white-shark","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}