Great White At Del Monte Beach!!!

[divenut2001]

A friend of mine was hunting for Halibut last weekend at Del Monte beach and had a 10 - 12 foot Great White cruise by him a couple of times. The GW was apparently just checking him out and made no threatening moves what so ever. My friend didn't have any Halibut in tow at the time which in this case was probably a good thing.

He and another guy were warned by some locals when they were gearing up that a GW had been spoted there in recent days but being the die hard hunters they are they went in anyway.

 

[Brian Gilpin]

Did they tell you their emotional reaction? Was it frightening or just amazing?

 

[scubasean]

A friend of mine was hunting for Halibut last weekend at Del Monte beach and had a 10 - 12 foot Great White cruise by him a couple of times. The GW was apparently just checking him out and made no threatening moves what so ever. My friend didn't have any Halibut in tow at the time which in this case was probably a good thing.

He and another guy were warned by some locals when they were gearing up that a GW had been spoted there in recent days but being the die hard hunters they are they went in anyway.

One of my instructor friends told me last weekend that two fisherman off Del Monte has spotted a 5-7' GW there that week.

 

[CALI68]

I heard about another sighting a few weeks back. Also, last year my firend and his Dive Buddies saw one in an almost dead hover at Auementos (probably getting cleaned). It eventually just swam away with no incident except for a very scary safety stop! ...just kidding, no safety stop. They chanced it and went straight to the boat. They said the shark looked tired and lazy...probably full! Food Coma.

 

[Dryglove]

Oh isnt this great. I am finally getting back into diving after a long 8 month layoff and now i have great whites to worry about. Maybe these are nice ones that dont bite

 

[luvspoodles]

Okay...where exactly is Del Monte? How close is that to Monterey or Carmel?

 

[bedmund]

Del Monte beach is right in Monterey. Kinda the first one you come to when you get off the 1 and head up the penninsula.

That shark must be lost.



-Bill

 

[Dryglove]

You can also refer to this for Del Monte's Beach location

http://www.mantaraydive.com/divecond.htm

 

[Scubaroo]

Crap! - I've done a few dives there out to the yacht wreck involving surface swims. Vis is almost always crap there. 10-12' is about the size when GWs are mistaking people for sealions.

 

[Dryglove]

10-12' is about the size when GWs are mistaking people for sealions.

Geez Ben, your really helping matters here