{"id":9473,"date":"2025-12-22T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:42:22","slug":"shark-kills-yet-another-swimmer-off-pacific-groves-lovers-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/shark-kills-yet-another-swimmer-off-pacific-groves-lovers-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Kills yet another Swimmer off Pacific Grove&#8217;s Lover&#8217;s Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Great_white_shark_south_africa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Great White Shark\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Great White Shark<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Solstice 2025,<\/strong> December 21.<\/p>\n<p>Another swimmer was apparently killed by a large shark off Pacific Grove&#8217;s Lover&#8217;s Point.<\/p>\n<p>Two people saw a large shark breach Monterey Bay&#8217;s surface with a human in its mouth &#8211; at the same time a woman swimmer went missing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9313\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9313\" src=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PG-SharkWarning-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific Grove Police Warning about Shark Danger\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PG-SharkWarning-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PG-SharkWarning-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/PG-SharkWarning.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Grove Police Warning about Shark Danger<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/shark-woman-disappeared-monterey-beach-21257020.php\">https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/shark-woman-disappeared-monterey-beach-21257020.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While not confirmed as a Great White Shark,<br \/>\nthis puts Pacific Grove back in the lead for the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/white-shark-death-capitol-pacific-grove-california\/\">Town with most humans killed by sharks<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/centralcoast\/article\/missing-monterey-swimmer-shark-attack-21258050.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">swimmer was Erica Fox of Monterey.<\/span><\/a> We&#8217;re sending best wishes for the woman&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"># # #<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/centralcoast\/article\/missing-monterey-swimmer-shark-attack-21258050.php<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solstice 2025, December 21. Another swimmer was apparently killed by a large shark off Pacific Grove&#8217;s Lover&#8217;s Point. Two people saw a large shark breach Monterey Bay&#8217;s surface with a human in its mouth &#8211; at the same time a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/shark-kills-yet-another-swimmer-off-pacific-groves-lovers-point\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":20,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-memorial","category-personal-danger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}