Occurred on September 26, 2017 / Santa Barbara Island, California, USA<br /><br />Info from Licensor: "ONE MAN'S SOLO WHITE SHARK TAGGING MISSION!<br /><br />White Shark Predation Elephant Sea<br /><br />I was hunting and I saw commotion in the distance to my right about a 1/2 mile away I went over there and saw the elephant seal floating upside down with its head hanging from a small patch of skin and a very large area of blood.<br />I shut down the motors on the boat and started to drift with the seal.<br />About a 1/2 hour later a 16 to 17' female white shark showed up.<br />It was getting late in the afternoon I didn't have much time to try and Tag her Unfortunately she was not interested in my bait only the seal and I didn't have appropriate lighting so I decided to drift with the seal till sunrise hopefully the shark would hang out so I could tag her.<br />She returned to the carcass approximately every 30 minutes To feed on it.<br />She was very cautious careful and gentle swimming around very slowly.<br />When she approached the carcass approximately every 30 minutes over 8 hrs She seemed to sink her teeth in and examining for bones before she started thrashing ripping chunks off.<br />She ate everything except for the backbone and rib cage And I believe she discarded the head.<br />At approximately 3:00 a.m. she left and I didn't see her again.<br />I left at 9:00 a.m. the next morning.<br />Always exciting to have enormous predators so close for hours And sometimes days."
