Brian Monroe was surfing in choppy conditions off Ocean Beach during low tide on a recent cloudy afternoon when the ominous figure of a ferocious predator broke the water’s surface.
Experts say a 2-foot dorsal fin that emerged less than 100 yards away belonged to a great white shark.
“I turned right towards shore and calmly paddled in,” Monroe said. “I didn’t want to draw attention to myself.”
Encounters with the large marine creatures are common off California’s beaches, where they are frequently spotted, but researchers have discovered that they venture under the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco Bay.
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