{"id":125713,"date":"2025-08-07T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:09:14","slug":"rare-sea-lion-attack-on-9-year-old-surfer-near-monterey-raises-warnings-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125713\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Sea Lion Attack on 9-Year-Old Surfer Near Monterey Raises Warnings, Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dippel said there was a story that wasn\u2019t being told as part of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn reality, this is an illegal surf camp, operating without permit, with no liability insurance from our department, that we had no knowledge of going on, and the instructor did not flag down a lifeguard. He just took the kid off the beach,\u201d Dippel said. \u201cI don\u2019t know why he did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sea lion bites on people are relatively uncommon along the California coast, according to Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center. Over the years, he said, there have been notable instances of sea lion bites around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11637312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Bay at Aquatic Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rulli, whose Sausalito-based nonprofit rescues marine mammals and provides education on the animals, said he empathizes with situations like Corale\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut these are wild marine mammals, and oftentimes we get put into a false sense of consciousness about the fact that, because we share our backyard with them and these incidents are relatively uncommon, there are risks,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s important to reinforce that these animals are unpredictable, and we can do a lot in terms of making sure we stay safe and they stay safe by being aware of our surroundings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In cases where a sea lion does approach someone in the water, Rulli said the best thing to do is \u201cexit the water all together\u201d to avoid stressing the animal out and potentially further creating an unpredictable situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to pretend, nor would it be astute of me, to get into the mind of a marine mammal, but it\u2019s very important to remember that these are wild animals \u2014 with the instincts that keep them wild and allow them to thrive in the wild, \u201d Rulli said. \u201cFor us humans, when we\u2019re in the water, it\u2019s important to remember that if a seal or sea lion approaches you, to not be demonstrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rulli said that includes avoiding splashing water around and vocalizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dippel said there was a story that wasn\u2019t being told as part of the incident. \u201cIn reality, this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[746,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-125713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986232255546786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}