Swimming with seals -- or not

Me too.

I agree. The Farralon Islands off the California coast have had these conditions for a long time now. Seals are Great White food. Swimmers on surf boards (or just in the water) look enough like seals to a big dumb hungry shark to put swimmers at risk.

Once the seal population around Chatham returned to normal levels this was bound to happen.

The ocean is a giant soup bowl for everything that lives in it. Pass at your own risk.

Sharks don't like the taste of people but that won't stop them from biting you if you look like a seal.

A bunch of Great White sharks have also been spotted and they are discouraging people from swimming.

have you heard the story of bethany hamilton from hawaii. she was on her surfboard, looking just like a seal and lost an arm.
http://talbronstein.org/archive/2004_01_bethany_h.htm

Well for me the issue would be moot. If you saw me in the water with seals it wouldn't be me swimming with the seals but me drowning nearby some seals. I can't swim or even doggy paddle to save my life.

So, if you see me in the water with a couple of seals, I would like to ask in advance for a life preserver ring, s'il vous plait.

But this whole scenario of people being potentially compelled to swim out to see the seals sounds like its a situation ripe for future Darwin Award winners. There are bound to be more then several yahoos who will openly ignore the official warnings and lament that fact after the fact if they are victims of a shark attack and are lucky enough to survive.