“People are friends, not food.”
When I was a young teenager I would go with my YMCA dive club diving at various of the Channel Islands off of Ventura County Ca. Because of the kelp the dive boats would drop anchor in deep water well outside the kelp and we would have to do our ocean entry in blue water and swim for a good 5 minutes to get into the kelp forests . These waters are also well known for being the habitat of Whitey , many seals and sea lions being present . I can never forget how spooky that five minutes swim was . In and back out . Every time . Always looking around for that big dark shadow down below . Which if it was a whitey , the last thing you may see would have been it’s huge head , mouth open , launching straight up at you .
That exact thing presented itself to one guy diving off the west shore of Catalina . The only thing that saved him was he put a long pear shaft straight down the throat of the whitey as it was launching on him .