There were about 25 to 30 people in the vicinity but it remains unclear whether anyone witnessed the attack.
LOS ANGELES — Grant Butterfield was watching the movie “Elf” at a dinner party on Christmas Eve when his brother’s name flashed across his cellphone.“We’ve lost Tom,” his brother said.
“It’s a terrible loss, at 42, with him getting his stuff together and starting to make something of himself,” said Grant Butterfield, 74. The family “is going to do OK ... but even at that, it’s a tough time holding it together.” The woman saw a leash connected to the board. She “tugged on it and felt weight” and realized it was connected to a body underwater, Endersby said. She grabbed Butterfield by his swim fins, pulled him through about chest-deep water and got him to the beach, he said.
A surfer and Morro Rock in Morro Bay in 2016. A surfer in the area was killed by a great white shark in December. They went to the beach about noon, Grant Butterfield said. They saw emergency vehicles by the water and “a huge gaggle of first responders.”Authorities closed the waters near Morro Strand for 24 hours. Signs stood in place through this weekend, flashing warnings: FATAL SHARK ATTACK and ENTER THE WATER AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Great whites, which can get up to 20 feet long and weigh about 3,000 pounds, have been spotted as far north as the Gulf of Alaska and as far south as near the equator, he said. Typically they are found in temperate or subtropical waters.
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