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Airborne Apex: Great White Shark Breaches Behind Bodyboarder in Newport Beach (Video)
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Airborne Apex: Great White Shark Breaches Behind Bodyboarder in Newport Beach (Video)

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·about 2 months ago
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Southern Californians have been put on notice – it’s going to be a particularly sharky summer, this season, due to El Niño, the “blob” marine heatwave, and so on. And on Saturday, July 25th, one shark put on a show in Newport Beach, CA. Caught on camera, a bodyboarder was riding a wave towards the inside of the lineup, while on the outside, a juvenile great white shark measuring about six-feet-long sprang from the water, and launched itself into the air. Watch the footage below. It happened when Soaren Stevenson was filming his brother, a casual session of sponging waves during a healthy pulse of summertime hurricane swell in the popular Orange County surf town. Then, an unexpected guest stole the show in the background. The young predator spun mid-air in a dramatic, full-body breach before crashing back into the water, all while the bodyboarder remained entirely unaware of the airborne apex predator activity happening behind him.…

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