Holy Smokes
Never, in all my years of living along the North County coast, have I seen a story even close to this:
SOLANA BEACH – A retired veterinarian swimming with members of a triathlon club was killed Friday morning in a shark attack north of Fletcher Cove.
A marine expert said the wounds appeared to be from a great white shark, an attack he described as “practically unprecedented” in the area.
The victim, 66-year-old Dr. David Martin of Solana Beach, was a member of the Triathlon Club of San Diego and a father of four. He was attacked shortly after 7 a.m. as he was swimming about 150 yards offshore in water 20 to 30 feet deep, officials said.
Richard H. Rosenblatt, a professor emeritus of marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who examined Martin's body, said he believed the shark was a great white between 12-to-17-feet-long.
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