They don't call the water where we live the red triangle for nothing. The Red Triangle is the colloquial name of a roughly triangle-shaped region off the coast of northern California, extending from Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, out slightly beyond the Farallon Islands, and down to the Big Sur region, south of Monterey. The area has a very large population of marine mammals, such as elephant seals, harbor seals, sea otters, and sea lions, which are favored meals of great white sharks. Around thirty-eight percent of recorded great white shark attacks on humans in the United States have occurred within the Red Triangle — eleven percent of the worldwide total. The area encompasses the beaches of the heavily-populated San Francisco Bay Area, and many people enjoy surfing, windsurfing, swimming and diving in these waters. With the ever increasing numbers of people entering the water, sightings and encounters with the elusive sharks are still extremely rare.
So the Rip Curl Pro Surf Contest is in town right now and here's what happened in the first heat:
I grew up down south surfing my whole life but moved up here so the cold water and thought of not being able to see below me helped me stop surfing here. Shit at least down south like at Black's Beach you can see them below you and know not only where they are at but also how big they are.
Here's info on the Monterey surfer that got nipped recently: