. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. WHITE SHARK ATTACKS 193 cinity. The temperature of the water was not determined. The nearest place from which water temperatures are available was the Pacific Marine Station at Dillon Beach, about miles north and miles east from the point of attack. There, the water temperatures taken (at 4 , PST, in the surf directly in front of the station) during the preceding eight days had varied from ° C to ° C, as follows,:
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. WHITE SHARK ATTACKS 193 cinity. The temperature of the water was not determined. The nearest place from which water temperatures are available was the Pacific Marine Station at Dillon Beach, about miles north and miles east from the point of attack. There, the water temperatures taken (at 4 , PST, in the surf directly in front of the station) during the preceding eight days had varied from ° C to ° C, as follows,: Mav 20, ° C; Mav 21, ° C; May 22, ° C; May 23, ° C; May 24, ° C; May 25, ° C; May 26, ° C; May 27, ° C, No temperatures were recorded for several days thereafter. TOMALES POINT DILLON BEACH ' BIRD ^ ISLAND. FIGURE 1. Aerial view of Tomales Point, Marin County, California, and adjacent Bird Rock. "X" indicates the pla:e where two shark attacks have occurred. Photograph by Pacific Resources Aerial Survey, 1967. Mr. Himmrich (Caucasian, age 31 years, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 190 pounds) had been diving for abalones. There were no cuts or abrasions on any part of his body. He was w^earing a nylon-lined neoprene wet suit, a face mask, gloves, and swim fins—all of which were black—and an orange inflatable life vest. He was carrying an abalone iron, most of its red handle concealed in his closed hand. Mr. Himmrich's four companions M'ere fishing nearby from an 18- foot boat equipped with an outboard motor. Four or five minutes before the attack, one of these anglers, using squid bait, had caught a large ''seatrout" {Hexagrammos sp.)—the only fish that they caught at this place. No fish blood or parts of fish nor food had been dropped into the water. Mr. Himmrich had put five red abalones into a bag and had handed the bag into the boat. He had then dived and released a hook and sinker that had become fouled on the
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