{"id":722000,"date":"2026-06-23T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722000\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:10:08","slug":"shark-stalks-paddleboarders-off-santa-barbara-coast-drone-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722000\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark stalks paddleboarders off Santa Barbara coast, drone video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Drone video captured the terrifying moment a great white shark stalked a pair of paddleboarders off the coast of Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The footage was captured Sunday. The pair was actually looking for the shark after hearing about a sighting. The woman&#8217;s uncle sent up a drone to try and help find the shark and guide the paddleboarders in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They headed back to land thinking they missed it, only to realize the shark hadn&#8217;t just found them, it was tracking them the entire time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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; said Kayla Ross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ross  went out twice to try to find the shark. She said she would go and do it again, and hopes she can find an even bigger shark next time.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drone video captured the terrifying moment a great white shark stalked a pair of paddleboarders off the coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[310674,79,201],"class_list":["post-722000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-310674","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722000","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=722000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}