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An investigation into a fatal shark attack
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takes a diver face-to-face with a killer.
Was it an accident?
Was it mistaken identity?
Or was the shark actually hunting its victim?
What will the investigation reveal about the massive great white
stalking the waters of the California coast?
We have a fatal attack on a surfer.
He was essentially bit in half. Boom, boom, boom.
Will the evidence help ID a prime suspect?
KEITH: There's no way that shark's under 18ft.
Reveal it's M.O? It did appear to me that I was dealing with multiple bites.
And identify a brand-new hunting ground for the great white?
We might be able to identify the exact shark
that killed Tomas Butterfield.
For nearly a decade, shark researcher, Ralph Collier
and his assistant, Brandon McMillan...
..have investigated a series of brutal attacks...
..off Central California.
Now, after nine years without a fatal attack in these waters,
a predator has resurfaced.
This time at nearby Morro Bay...
..on Christmas Eve, 2021.
Can Ralph and Brandon identify the killer
before it strikes again?
And help save lives in this quiet seaside town?
This is The Pit,
just north of iconic Morro Rock.
There have been several shark attacks here in the past
and plenty...
..of terrifying near misses.
This spot is known for great whites,
but nothing like this has ever happened before.
A sad start to Christmas tonight, a young man was found dead.
Today, a man died of an apparent attack here in Morro Bay
north of The Pit Beach on State Park's property.
First responders arrived on scene and declared the man dead on the beach.
Beach goers will not be allowed in the water.
Some from the community are shocked that this incident
happened close to home.
Tomas Butterfield, a bodyboarder, a brother,
a son,
tragically killed on Christmas Eve by what appears to have been...
..a massive great white shark.
Since the attack,
a pall hangs over this town,
leaving locals to wonder,
why here and why now?
Ralph begins his investigation with the harbor master
who was on the scene when the victim was recovered.
Has there ever been anything that even closely resembles what you saw here?
It's the first failed shark attack we've had since I've been here.
The last fatal attack in Morro Bay was 1957
and claimed the life of a 25-year-old college student
from Brooklyn, New York.
Since then, five other victims survived shark bites in these waters.
Tomas Butterfield wasn't so lucky.
(SIREN WAILING)
ERIC: Once we arrived on scene and realised what had occurred,
we got the rest of the people out of the water that were nearby.
We closed the beach for 72 hours,
and then we kept warning signs up for the week
because it was Christmas vacation time and people were around.
Everybody thinks about when they go out in the water now.
There were no known witnesses to the Tomas Butterfield attack,
no one to identify the shark,
or see how it happened.
But there may be clues yet to be uncovered
which has led Brandon to Morro Bay,
and this couple, Ben and Rebecca Frimmer,
who were in the water that day.
What they saw still haunts them.
So, take me back to Christmas Eve. The conditions weren't that good that day,
but you just had to go surfing anyway.
Yeah. No, they really weren't that good.
It was windy and kind of nasty.
So even though the conditions were crappy,
it was some time in the water,
and we just figured we'd head out for just a little while.
In the rough conditions, the couple became separated.
Rebecca decided to head in.
So you were paddling in and you saw a body board sticking straight up
with no rider.
At that point, what did you think?
I was, um...
Hang on a second. (CLEARS THROAT)
As I was paddling in I saw a board, like, floating on top of the water.
So I figured I would go just pull it out,
so it didn't just become more trash in the ocean.
I started pulling on the board. I could feel it was heavy.
It wasn't until I could hop off my board and see
what was going on that I realised that there was a person there.
As I started pulling the board in, that became apparent.
BRANDON: You made the discovery, did you think it was a shark attack?
When I first found Tom,
you know, he was... he was floating on his stomach,
and so, I couldn't see the excessive nature of the wounds on his chest
until I pulled him in.
(SIREN WAILS)
Seeing all the commotion on the beach,
Rebecca's husband Ben swam back to shore to help.
You know, I've been a paramedic and combat medic,
so I figured maybe I can help this guy or something.
So we went over to kind of investigate
and talk with the harbor patrol at that point,
and it pretty clear when I saw Tom that he'd been long deceased.
Maybe it hits harder just because you don't usually see humans
being eaten, you know.
Maybe just hits home more cos I'm a surfer and it's our greatest fear.
Maybe everybody's greatest fear, you know.
Um, it was a pretty sizable bite.
I think Tom's death was instant.
I don't even know if he knew what was happening.
It looked like he was essentially almost bit in half.
I mean, he must have bled out within seconds.
I'm in awe of the shark, of their power.
They're faster. They're bigger.
They have much better senses than us.
One bite, and that's it.
And I don't even think you get a warning.
I think they go so fast and they're so stealthy,
they attack from, like, under him.
It's devastating what they can do.
RALPH: Christmas Eve, Brandon,
there were several internet cameras filming surfing conditions in Morro Bay.
Oh, really? I've gone through hundreds of hours of video
and I have not been able to find Tomas anywhere.
So, are we at a dead end?
No, we've actually got some good forensic evidence.
This is the bodyboard Tomas was riding when he was attacked.
No bites. At first glance.
But take a look at this.
Yeah, those are definitely teeth.
These are posterior teeth from the back of the lower jaw of a white shark.
There's a tooth fragment embedded in the board.
Wow, look at that.
Look at this.
Wow.
White sharks often leave tooth fragments behind in cases like this.
So I guess we know what species this is. Yes. (CHUCKLES)
This was a massive great white shark.
OK. So how big?
One way to find out is to get ahold of Tomas Butterfield's wetsuit.
There must be multiple bites in the wetsuit,
and I can use that to determine the size of the shark
down to a foot or two.
So, if we know the size of the shark...
If we know the size of the shark that killed Tomas,
and if it matches the size of a previously tagged shark
by researchers off the California coast,
we might be able to identify the exact shark that killed Tomas Butterfield.
A tragic shark attack at Morro Bay, California,
has left this small coastal town in mourning.
42-year-old Tomas Butterfield, an experienced surfer,
was killed by what's believed to be a massive great white,
the first fatal attack off Morro Bay in over 60 years.
The killing has reignited a decade-long investigation
of great white attacks in this region,
conducted by renowned shark researcher, Ralph Collier,
and Brandon McMillan... There it is.
..who's been helping Ralph gather data in the field.
Previously, they studied a series of attacks off Surf Beach, California,
about 50 miles south of Morro Bay.
Those attacks occurred with clockwork precision
in October of even-numbered years...
..in 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014,
coinciding with the migration pattern of large female great whites.
KEITH: She's pulling him down. She's starting to fight now.
Now, the pattern seems to be shifting north,
and Brandon is determined to find out why.
Keith Poe has spent the last 28 years...
Watch her. She will kill you. I'm not kidding.
..tagging over 5,000 sharks for researchers.
For the past decade,
he's specialised in great whites.
And lately...
Let her go. We've got it. (CHUCKLES)
..he's focused a lot of his tagging efforts
in the waters off Point Conception to Morro Bay.
This is a relatively new hot spot for great whites.
A few years ago, you discovered a new white shark hot spot
off Central California.
Tell me about that.
Well, there were some attacks there,
and, uh, we were interested in that.
We've got a guy that just got hit by a great white shark.
I was hearing things like the attacks on the kayaks up there.
MAN: Those are holes from a great white shark.
Look at the size of that jaw!
(BLEEP)
I thought there would be sharks. She's coming around.
Here we go, Keith. There you go.
So I started working that area and we found sharks up there.
Is there a certain time of the year
that you personally would not go in the water near Morro Bay?
I see the most sharks in, uh, October and November,
but they start coming in in September.
But they're here year round.
And they don't leave.
So there's no time that's safe,
but there are times that are a lot less dangerous.
Is Morro Bay a serial killer's new hunting ground?
Back in San Luis, Obispo,
Ralph continues his investigation into the Tomas Butterfield case,
questioning one of the first responders on the scene,
William Miller, a detective with the coroner's office.
I believe you recovered a wetsuit.
Yeah, I had him transported in the wetsuit,
and then I removed it during examination
and I retained it for further use.
Is it possible to take a look at that? Absolutely.
Then, uh, boom boom, boom. Mm-hm.
You can see from here to here where the tooth entered,
the insertion, and from here to here.
And this is the intermediate tooth.
Multiple bites to this individual.
It appears that there's a bite in the shoulder area.
And, of course, massive trauma to the, uh, the abdomen.
So this shark when it was moving through the environment
saw this fuzzy outline, no definitive shape,
thought it might be food, and a reflexive response.
Went up to get it and continued to bite,
and I think that's what happened here,
and then just swam off.
With your permission, I'd like to take this wetsuit back to my lab
where I can do a more thorough examination of the bite impressions.
Yeah. Not only yes, but I think it's appropriate.
So, Ralph, I've been thinking a lot about where the bite marks are
on the bodyboard and why the bite impressions are right here
in the corner.
The way the bite mark
was on his body, there will be an impression right here.
That's correct. What I really think is he was waiting for a wave.
Now bodyboarders will often sit on the body board like this,
which makes a perfect impression.
The bite comes from this angle right here.
His head was hit. Half his body this way.
I believe he was sitting like this on the board waiting
for a wave as he got hit.
Interesting. That would explain the bites to the web suit.
Speaking of which...
Oh, my God.
This is his wetsuit, huh? Yeah.
These are multiple bites from a very large shark.
So what kind of attack do you think this was?
It appears that the initial strike might have been predatory,
but the additional bites might not have been predatory
because there was no tissue removed.
So it seems like a lot of shark attacks is just a single bite,
and the shark swims off.
Clearly not this one. No.
I mean, I was able to determine the size of the shark
based on the distance between the teeth.
These are individual insertion points of teeth,
and measuring the distance between these individual tooth impressions
will allow us to determine the size of the shark.
This is a very accurate method for determining size.
OK. So...
This white shark was 17 to 18ft in length.
There can't be too many sharks out there this size. No.
And that would definitely narrow down
the list of suspects. Yes.
MAN: Let us pray.
Back in Morro Bay,
a grieving family and dozens of friends mourn Tomas Butterfield,
and what would have been his 42nd birthday.
We grew up in Pittsburgh, California, right on the Delta,
and we were always on the water.
We were always together.
Our mom growing up was a single parent, but going to nursing school,
and I remember her telling a person that, uh,
"I was gonna go have an adventure,
and I'm taking these two boys with me,"
and then move to Ketchikan, Alaska, where we camped for two months.
So our clothes smelt like campfire
and we walked into this new high school,
and there's the two stinky Butterfield kids over there smelling like smoke.
But our Alaska adventure
was how we fell in love more and more with the ocean.
Just being in the water all the time.
And when Tom wasn't surfing he was snorkeling,
spearfishing, doing everything ocean related.
When the boy's mother settled in Morro Bay,
Tom became a regular visitor.
MARIE: He said, "Mom, I'm so glad you moved here."
He enjoyed going out on the boogie board
and getting out in the waves.
I think it made him feel free.
And every time he was out there,
he went way out there, way out there.
I would be wondering where in the world he was,
and then eventually I would pick him out,
"Oh, yeah, there's Tom."
As idyllic as Morro Bay might seem,
the locals know what lurks just offshore.
I remember in July, he came back and he was,
"Oh, I saw the biggest shark out there,"
or, "I saw this dorsal fin." I knew it was the shark out there.
And I remember asking, "Tom, did you get out of the water?"
He said, "No, I didn't get out of the water.
I know what I'm doing. I won't go towards it or anything."
There's always notices on there,
a shark was seen, the date, the time, and everything.
That didn't deter Tom from anything. He loved it.
Little did he know, it was on a collision course with a mammoth predator.
BEN: Tom and I were both coming down here to see our mom for Christmas Eve,
and Tom, first thing was, "I can't wait to get back in the water.
It looked good," and I remember him saying that,
"It looked good."
That morning, I said, "Tom, it was raining the night before.
It's kind of not -"
He said, "That's the best time to go, Mom,"
so I can still see him walking out.
And for the last three years, every time he came out to visit me,
off to the beach he would go and I would go with him.
That one last time I didn't go with him,
Tom left, off he went to go ride the waves.
It was the last time Tomas's mom would see him alive.
Usually, he takes a long time,
but it was getting around four o'clock.
I started calling his phone and no answer.
(MOBILE VIBRATES) And we drove where I thought he would be at
and all of the parking was empty.
And then they had flashing light and it said, "Shark fatality."
And I called his phone one more time.
The detective answered it... (MOBILE RINGS)
..and told me about Tom,
Tom was gone, so...
Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
We lived in shock for about six days.
It's just indescribable.
I mean, you have to tell yourself to breathe.
Right when that big shark took a bite of Tom,
Tom became a spirit,
and he turned around, embraced the shark and said,
"I forgive you," and he's off, he's off.
(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) (ALL CLAPPING)
February 20th was his birthday.
Our friends from Alaska all came down
and all our friends and family, tons of people from Morro Bay.
Tom would have been so pumped to see that.
As part of the ceremony,
Tom's ashes are cast into the ocean.
It was wonderful, amazing,
all those people who came and had stories about Tom.
And Tom's spirit was there.
I've always thought about my brother every single day of my life,
and I'll continue to, uh, think about him.
Tomas Butterfield was the second fatal shark attack off California
in 18 months.
In that same period,
there have been a dozen clashes between humans and great whites
off the West Coast.
Some experts speculate that a white shark population boom
is behind the spike of attacks.
Others contend that the population may have changed its migratory routes
due to climate change.
But one thing is certain,
these predators are being seen more often and in more places
than ever before.
Eric Mailander is a drone pilot based out of Santa Cruz, California.
Today, he's taking his boat through one of the densest concentrations
of great whites on the Pacific coast.
A place known as Shark Park.
Drone deployed. About seven years ago,
juvenile and subadult white sharks started showing up in mass
to this protected cove.
Right off some of California's most popular beaches.
One flight, when I do the census counts,
I counted over 30 within a mile area.
It's not uncommon to see 20, but an average would be seven,
eight, nine sharks. That would be an average day.
Of course, it's a concern to the people using the water kayakers.
Stand up paddle boarders, swimmers.
Sheer numbers and how close they are to the shore and how close they are
to people.
They're actually sometimes in the surf.
Now typically they're in 18 to 25 feet of water.
They're just doing their thing swimming at the surface,
not bothering anybody.
At least not on a regular basis.
But there have been run ins including a fatal bite
on a popular local surfer in May of 2020.
The day of the attack, I was here, and I filmed 15 white sharks.
At the center of Shark Park lies the wreckage of 100 year old cement ship.
An ominous reminder that these waters can be deadly.
Since 2016, 2017, sort of well known.
And they're actually people swimming out to the sharks,
which definitely makes me nervous.
People with the inner tubes kicking their way out to where the sharks are.
I wouldn't recommend that.
The juveniles aren't typically going to bite something your size,
but big ones do cruise through here.
And you always need to be aware of that. Larger sharks
will cruise through, hoping to eat one of these smaller sharks.
We had a fatality in 2020.
These are sharks, relatively well behaved.
Again, I think most people are surprised in seeing how common
they are in certain areas that there aren't more accidents
and injuries.
Sean Van Sommeran is the Santa Cruz Bay
shark naturalist who's documented the surge in sharks here.
I don't look at it as a population increase or explosion
or a comeback necessarily so much as the centre of gravity
has shifted north.
Juvenile great whites, which once grew up in the warm waters off Mexico
have moved north to the once chilly waters of Shark Park.
My estimation is that the sea conditions changed.
You know, the currents have shifted. And when the conditions change,
it becomes inviting and the sharks will move in keeping with
those conditions. It's a perfect scenario
for a white shark rookery.
So their food's here, they're safe, and they can relax.
Sometimes you're belly full. We don't see a lot of feeding activity.
And so I suspect that they come here to rest,
digest their food, have a quick snack
on some of these smaller sharks and rays.
It's just a comfortable inviting area for them
with fewer predators and an abundance
of easier to catch food.
The juveniles have simply moved north into areas
where they weren't previously seen.
And so someone can say, "Oh, I've lived here for 10 years
and I've never seen so many sharks."
The population must be increasing.
Locally, yes.
But that doesn't indicate an overall population expansion
or increase in abundance.
More great whites moving into the waters of popular beaches
is now a fact of life for Californians.
Ralph and Brandon believe a better awareness
of what's happening here may save lives.
And an understanding that the sharks' behaviour
especially where and when they like to hunt is crucial for anyone
who enters these waters.
Just as in Morro Bay where Tomas was killed,
a new great white hot spot seems to be developing
about 50 miles north of San Francisco
at a place called Salmon Creek.
On October 3rd, 2021,
a 38-year-old surfer was bitten
and held under water for nearly 15 seconds,
the seventh attack at this location.
Is this the future of Morro Bay as well?
Brandon has come to Salmon Creek to interview the victim.
So, a few months ago,
You were hit by a white shark in these waters.
Tell me what you remember about that day.
ERIC: I was about 20 minutes into the session,
and the water was crystal clear and cold.
And then, bam, something just hit me,
and it dragged me under.
I had no idea what it was. I thought a boat hit me.
I'm under water and I feel this heavy pressure on my leg.
I push as hard as I can,
and nothing, doesn't move.
You know, I can't get away from it,
and I started to kind of panic,
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
It's holding me under water.
So your leg was basically hanging off right here
and he just got you right in the dead centre.
Yeah, right behind my knee,
then he came back and sandwiched me between the board,
and that's what I'm saving my leg,
was this back side of the board right here.
I hit it once in the eye,
but I was twisted...
..cos it had me and the board under water.
I hit it again.
And then, boom, it lets me up.
I was under maybe about 15 seconds, I would say.
So, what do you remember about this particular shark?
It was in no hurry. And it wasn't scared.
It just took me and was gonna do whatever, you know, it felt like.
And there was nothing I could do about it.
And I looked back at my leg and there was blood flowing out.
It was just shredded.
I started to paddle in, and I thought,
"Man, you're gonna lose your leg."
And then I started to see spots.
And I'm, like, "I'm not gonna make it in."
Luckily, all these surfers that were in the water
heard me screaming.
They came running over,
and a couple of them tried to put a torniquet over my leg with the leash.
All these guys just started to carry me.
There was still blood everywhere,
and then they just marched me up.
And then they radioed in a helicopter. (WHIRRING)
If I was alone, there's no way I would have made it.
Did you know before you paddled out
that there had been six shark attacks right at this spot?
I think a lot of the guys that surf up here enjoy the solitude
and don't worry about the sharks.
It happens. Yeah, there's been six attacks,
but we surf up here a lot and we stick together.
And now, definitely, I don't surf alone.
I surf with the community. So... Yeah.
So, here's Eric Stanley's board.
RALPH: That's a nasty bite.
Yeah, I got the impression that, uh,
Salmon Creek was very sharky.
People refer to a lot of places as sharky,
a lot of sightings, recurring attacks over and over.
I wonder why they only seem to hang off certain beaches?
We refer to those places as anchor points,
locations where sharks hunt their prey,
where they've had success in the past maybe.
They keep returning to those locations over and over.
Sounds a little like, the, uh, rogue shark,
like the one from Jaws.
Yeah, the rogue shark theory has basically been debunked.
However, there was a study
that showed that some of the techniques utilised by white sharks
are the same techniques utilised by human serial killers.
You mean, like anchor points? Yes.
Here, read this publication.
I think you'll be surprised.
This is amazing.
Geographic profiling is a technique normally used by criminalists
to identify a serial killer's home base
based on the location of their crimes.
Here, researchers use that same tool to study the hunting patterns
of white sharks in South Africa.
I've gotta go check this out for myself.
In the wake of a fatal shark attack off Morro Bay, California,
Brandon has travelled to South Africa
to learn more about the killer's M.O.
Great white sharks aren't malicious,
nor do they suffer from personality disorders.
But research conducted in these very waters
shows that they use many of the same strategies
as human serial killers.
Hey, Brandon, how is it, buddy? Welcome to False Bay,
home of the famous, uh, Seal Island.
Yeah, I've been wanting to come here for 20 years now.
20 years, that's a long time. Well, I'm glad you made it.
So this is Seal Island.
Right here in these waters,
thousands of seals have been taken out by great whites.
These predations were so predictable,
researchers pretty much knew exactly where
and when the shark would strike.
So, I read in a scientific paper that Sector 4 is a spot
where you used to see the most white shark predations.
Yeah, that is correct.
Sector 4 is the hot spot for white sharks predating on seals.
We call it "the gauntlet,"
where seals leave the island to go offshore feeding,
and they have to come back to to the island via Sector 4.
And that's where the sharks hang out
waiting for the opportunity to strike at a seal passing by.
These are the same sharks over and over?
Most times, yes, the same sharks, especially the bigger ones.
If you pinpoint the exact location of previous attacks,
you can accurately predict where a shark or a serial killer
might attack next.
So, this is a spot, according to the research paper,
where the white sharks hunt.
Let's see what happens when we tow a decoy through here.
This used to be one of the most active anchor points on the planet.
But not any more.
We towed for two hours, and nothing.
Something is just not right here.
So, when's the last time you actually saw a white shark breach here?
June, July, 2019.
And what's crazy is the seals' behaviour has changed completely
over the last three years.
The white sharks have been gone so long
the seals have actually changed their behaviour?
Absolutely. For us, it's crazy to see seals in areas we would never see them roam before.
They're hanging around that area
knowing there's no white sharks around.
It turns out that the great white shark
has a serial killer of its own to worry about.
Stephan told me, two orca called Port and Starboard
started coming into False Bay a few years back.
The shark population thinned out,
and finally, just disappeared altogether.
All evidence points to a killing spree
by these two killer whales.
But there is one place left in South Africa
where Brandon can observe great whites,
Seal Rock in Mossel Bay.
Here, the sharks gather at this tiny island in one small area...
..to hunt seals.
Brandon will go to that spot hoping to see an anchor point up close,
to see for himself if great white sharks can be reliably found there.
He'll do it at night,
when the sharks are believed to be most active.
The visibility is near zero,
much the same as it was off Morro Bay
when Tomas Butterfield was hit.
But the sharks are definitely here,
and they don't need to see their victims to hunt them.
Mere minutes after Brandon enters the water,
a large, bold animal is already locked onto him.
It's like a phantom disappearing in the murk,
then reappearing when Brandon least expects it.
In Tomas Butterfield's last moments,
it's likely he never saw the shark that hit him.
BRANDON: Great whites, they really do share a lot of the same characteristics
as human serial killers.
The only difference is great whites, they kill to eat.
Humans, they kill for some bizarre psychological reason.
I think I'll take the sharks. (EXHALES)
How was South Africa? Oh, amazing.
Glad you came back in one piece.
But I've got some interesting information
about the Tomas Butterfield case in Morro Bay.
Tell me. So, we determined the shark responsible was 17 to 18ft long.
Right. So, I've been on the internet looking at an app
put out by researchers tagging sharks in California.
Yeah. So it turns out an 18ft shark that was tagged four years ago...
..is still transmitting.
Four years ago, she was measured at 17 and a half feet.
Today, she could have easily grown to 18ft.
And according to the app,
it's spending a lot of time hanging around off the California coast.
That could be the shark that attacked Tomas Butterfield.
I mean, how many 18-footers are swimming around out there?
Precisely. And guess what this shark's name is?
No idea.
Poe Girl.
Poe Girl, as in Keith Poe, our shark tagger?
Yes.
Keith Poe first tagged this giant female with a satellite tracker
in November of 2017...
..off Point Conception.
Tell me about this fish. What was she like?
I put the bait out. She took it.
And we fought her, and she fought like hell.
Forward! Forward!
Man, she's pulling hard, dude.
And she never showed fear.
A lot of them show, what I believe is fear.
And she didn't have any fear in her at all.
When I got her up here and I secured her to the side of the boat
and started to put the tag on her,
she was working with me, she was going along with it.
God, I can't even lift her she's so heavy. (GRUNTS)
But once I pulled that tail rope off,
she said, "That's it.
I'm done with you. This is over." She started going crazy.
And I took her off that cleat and moved her to the back cleat.
Hooks about to come out.
She got it out. It's barely in her mouth.
She could spike it, she'll be able to go.
Oh, yeah.
And then she got the hook out herself.
But she was so aggressive.
There she goes! Yeah! (LAUGHS)
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
After you tagged her, have you seen her since?
Three months ago. I only got glimpses of her here at the side of the boat.
But she looked even bigger to me.
So, there's...There's no way that shark's under 18 feet,
if not, bigger. Yeah.
The shark that bit Tomas Butterfield was in the 18-foot range.
According to Keith, Poe Girl is also in the 18-foot range.
Same shark? Who knows?
I guess the big question is...
Where was Poe Girl last Christmas Eve?
Poe Girl. What do you think?
Well, she was tagged November 23rd, 2017, off Point Conception.
She's been all over the Eastern Pacific.
But get this,
she did pass by Morro Bay on or about December 24th, 2021.
Christmas Eve.
So, where is she now?
Well, she was last seen February 17th, 2022, heading offshore,
somewhere out in the middle of the Pacific
where these animals seem to aggregate.
You think she'll be back?
All the data points to that.
This is a shark that is very comfortable
in the waters off Morro Bay.
After more than a decade investigating shark attacks
off the Central California coast,
Ralph and Brandon may have finally identified
the great white serial killer.
But questions still remain.
Has this predator found a new anchor point at Morro Bay?
And will she back...
..to haunt these waters again?
The answers may save lives...
..in this quiet seaside town.
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