Shark retrieved from water by children

Posted on 19. Aug, 2006 by kchristieh in environment

Here’s a picture of the shark that kids from church camp removed from the water in Santa Cruz the other day:

It was only about 2′ long, and I think it was a spiny dogfish. There was an extremely large school of small fish (sardines? anchovies?) near shore, so the shark must have been attracted to them. Unfortunately, the pelicans were attracted to the shark, and mercilessly attacked it. By the time the kids found the shark, it was missing the right side of its cheek and was nearly dead.