Hours after a two-mile stretch of beach in San Diego was reopened Friday morning for swimmers, a surfer spotted another great white shark and lifeguards closed the beach again.
Authorities are searching for the shark and say Mission Beach may remain closed another 24 hours.
On Thursday, a lifeguard spotted the dorsal fin of a great white shark. It was protruding about 18 inches out the water about 100 yards from the beach. A shark with a fin that size would probably be 12 to 15 feet long, lifeguards said.
A search by lifeguard boats and a San Diego fire and rescue helicopter failed to find the shark.
Lifeguard Lt. Nick Lerma said that swimmers sometimes mistake dolphins for sharks but that the Thursday sighting was from a veteran lifeguard who was within 30 yards of the creature. "He's a very credible source," he said.
Shark sightings are unusual but not unprecedented off Mission Beach. A more common spot for sharks is the water off La Jolla, possibly because the sharks are drawn by the seals that lounge on the beach.
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