The Peconic Puffin

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A SUP surfer named Chuck Patterson shot this last summer at San Onofre in San Diego. It’s your basic “stick a gopro camera in the water and enjoy footage of great white sharks circling you” deal. I would have bugged out. Oh yeah, and paddled back to shore toot sweet. But Chuck was in awe of the moment, and kept shooting. He’d actually seen a shark there the day before, and returned this day with his camera HOPING to get footage of the sharks. He tells the story of the experience on his blog.

Me I’ve only seen a shark once ever while out on the water, and that was enough. More than enough. It suffices. Peconic Puffin Contributing GoPro Nature Boy Peconic Jeff hasn’t caught anything like this. Something tells me he might like to. I don’t want to be there if and when… Nice work, Chuck!

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12 responses to “Shark Circling SUP Video Blows Me Away”

  1. Jeff, aka PeconicJeff Avatar

    Nice footage, I love how the SUPs help reveal what lies beneath. All I can offer from our murky waters is a skittish stingray.

  2. scott k. Avatar
    scott k.

    thats all we want to see thank you jeff!

  3. bonnie Avatar

    next offering, from jamaica bay –
    <a href=”>bunker, and teeny snails.

  4. bonnie Avatar

    Bunker. And some teeny weeny snails.

  5. bonnie Avatar

    I can’t believe people got mad at him!

  6. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Mad at Peconic Jeff? Nobody likes Jeff. Ha…actually everybody likes Jeff! Scott is just grumpy from lack of water time. I certainly am.

  7. bonnie Avatar

    No, they got mad at your shark whisperer man!
    Because the mommies saw the big bad shark and pulled their kiddies out of surf school.

  8. scott k. Avatar
    scott k.

    im not grumpy,im sore. i just got two days of fresh pow up by mt.washington[lord chimpletons chalet] & were gonna get west winds today at 30-40 & a balmy 38 degrees!!!

  9. bonnie Avatar

    btw don’t let those snails fool you.
    They’re meat-eaters.

  10. Bunty Avatar

    Mental! I would have made a good shark meal if I were there cos I would have had a coronary on the spot and slumped into the sea!

  11. cd Avatar
    cd

    Sharks eat puffins for desert you know!

  12. Ian Berger Avatar

    Mike,
    Your shark story had inspired me to write a short story. E-mail me at ianrberger(at)verzion.net so I can send it to you.
    -Ian

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