9 thoughts on “That Shark Off Manhattan Beach”

  1. While it’s hard to be certain, it looks like the tail fin is horizontal which means it’s a dolphin. If the tail is vertical, it’s a shark.

    1. There’s really no way to tell from that shadowy image. But my money would be on dolphin. We see those a lot more here in the surf than sharks, especially a shark of that size (they’re mostly small leopards).

  3. The dolphin was probably trying to score some drugs after it ran out of puffer fish.

    Puff, puff, pass dolphin story.

    “This was a case of young dolphins purposely experimenting with something we know to be intoxicating,” said Rob Pilley, a zoologist who worked as a producer for the series. “After chewing the puffer gently and passing it round, they began acting most peculiarly, hanging around with their noses at the surface as if fascinated by their own reflection.”

  4. Yes, looks like a dolphin. They swim up and down the South Bay beaches every day.

    Sharks are not completely rare in the region, though. I’m pretty sure I recall back in the 80’s, a UCLA prof and his girlfriend went out ocean kayaking, and the only things found later were the pieces of the kayaks with big bite marks taken out.

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