A teenage girl initially feared that she was attacked by a shark during her lifeguard test in South California, but the predator turned out to be an aggressive sea lion.
Phoebe Beltran, 15, did her swimming test for her lifeguard certification in Long Beach on March 30 when she felt something clamped on her arm.
“Out of nothing I feel something when biting my arm,” she told KTLA. “I saw a shadow and everything I think is:” Please, don't be shark. Please don't get out of my arm, and please don't kill me. '' '
Her own mother, Bibi Beltran, thought she had seen a shark fin and shouted that the predator was in the water.
“We all hurried to the water and when I realized it was my daughter, then I broke,” she told the local outlet.
Except that it was not a shark, but an angry lion that attacked the teenager – but that did not mean that Beltran ran away unharmed.
The animal had bitten and scratched the arm of the teenager several times, causing the limb swelling and bruising.
Other lifeguards came to her aid and pulled her out of the water before she hurried the Lifeguard trainee to the hospital.
Except that it was not a shark, but an angry lion attacking the teenager – but that did not mean that Beltran was running away unharmed
The animal had bitten and scratched several times
The girl still has red scratches that littered her arms, but once she has been fully recovered, she plans to try out again for the lifeguard cadets.
“I love the beach, I love the ocean, I love swimming,” she told Ktla.
Earlier this year, surfer RJ Lamendola was 'shaken in his core' after he was pulled by a sea lion that was infected with a zombie-like neurotoxin.
In a Facebook message, Lamendola described his experience in the field of waves in the California in Oxnard State Beach Park before he encountered the 'disturbed predator'.
Out of the blue it burst out of the water and 'at full speed' walked towards him with his 'mouth wide' and shiny teeth.
After various attempts to an ambush, the crazy animal beat his jaws hard on his left butt coercion.
Lamendola said he is still dealing with post -traumatic stress disorder of the encounter, which scientists say he was caused by a neurological disorder as a result of an infection by poisonous algae bloom.
He described it as “the most moving and traumatic experience of my 20 years of surfing,” and added “let me shuffle at my core.”
She plans to try the Lifeguard cadets as soon as it is completely healed. “I love the beach, I love the ocean, I love swimming,” she said
Sea lions, which can be mature to £ 700, is known to be aggressive. Those who adorned the waters in South California have to do with poisonous algae blooms, making them more angry
RJ Lamendola describes his Zeelion attack as 'the most harrowing and traumatic experience of my 20 years of surfing', so that 'it has shaken me to my core'
“The pain was sharp and immediately, but the fear was worse – he shook his head violently and pulled me from my plate through my meat and dragged me into the water,” he said.
“The expression of it was, almost demonic, devoid of the curiosity or playfulness that I had always associated with sea lions.”
The surfer said he finally returned to the beach with blood that flowed over his leg, but managed to drive to a nearby hospital.
Last summer, other beachgoers in California continued to scream and cry after a protective sea lion was loaded on them.
Lauren Bertrand visited La Jolla Cove in San Diego on June 23 when she conquered the images of the angry sea lion.
Prior to the attack on beachgoers, the marine mammal swam through the area with his babies, of whom Bertrand also caught a glimpse of.
The sea lion almost came face to face with one swimmer before he swam away, leaving people left unharmed.
Sea lions, which can be mature to £ 700, is known to be aggressive. Those who adorn the waters in South California have to do with toxic algae blooms, making them more angry, said Ktla.
Beach visitors are warned to leave sea lions alone and to prevent eye contact with the animals.
