Rare giant whale shark surprises fishermen off Southern California coast

A fishing charter out of Newport Beach enjoyed an extremely rare, and extremely close, encounter with the ocean’s largest shark, one not typically found in Southern California waters. The encounter was captured on video Monday off San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the Channel Islands, about 55 miles from the coast. The anglers had cast […]A fishing charter out of Newport Beach enjoyed an extremely rare, and extremely close, encounter with the ocean’s largest shark, one not typically found in Southern California waters. The encounter was captured on video Monday off San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the Channel Islands, about 55 miles from the coast. The anglers had cast […]