No time for sharks in Surf Festival Dwight Crum Pier to Pier
Ryan Bullock said he was too focused on winning the Dwight Crum Pier to Pier Swim to worry about the shark that followed him. Photo Last week, while training for Sunday’s International Surf Festival Dwight Crum Pier to Pier swim, retired Los Angeles County Lifeguard Captain Shannon Davey saw a shark breach off of 26th street in Hermosa Beach. The street is near the halfway mark in the two mile race from the Hermosa Beach to the Manhattan Beach pier. That evening Davey told her friend and former Mira Costa High School swim team teammate Niecia Staggs that she hoped she would see a shark during Sunday’s race. Davey’s hope came true for both herself and her friend, as well as many of the other 1,000 swimmers in the race. Staggs saw a shark just past 26th street. Spectator Violette Beshay took this photo from the Manhattan Beach pier of paralleling second and third place swimmers Jonathan Harmse and Kevin Fink “At first I thought it was my shadow, but it was longer than me — six to seven feet. I had plenty of time to stare and figure out what it was because it swam beneath me for several blocks,” Staggs said after the race. She said a lifeguard on a personal watercraft pulled up and…
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