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Posted on 08/01/2026 3:18:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A California triathlete whose body washed ashore a week after she vanished during a group ocean swim off the Monterey coast was killed in a gruesome shark attack, according to a newly released report.
Erica Fox, 55, disappeared in December 2025 while swimming with 14 others in the frigid waters off Monterey.
A week later, her body was discovered about 25 miles away near Davenport Beach in Santa Cruz County, still partially dressed in her black wetsuit, the report said.
Chris Lowe, a professor of marine biology with the Shark Lab at California State University Long Beach, said he suspects the shark thought Fox was a seal or sea lion.
“The only explanation we can come up with in cases like this is that the shark made a mistake,” Lowe said. “It mistook a person for a seal or a sea lion.”
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The autopsy appears to confirm witness reports at the time of seeing a shark with a human body in its jaws before it submerged.
Fox was participating in a weekly swim with a club she co-founded with her husband Jean-Francis Vanreusel — called the Kelp Krawlers in Pacific Grove — when the group feared a “large splash” was an attacking shark, KSBW reported.
While the other swimmers all made it back to shore, Fox remained missing.
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A post Fox once shared on social media showed a picture of a diver swimming alongside a great white shark.
“This is the most DANGEROUS ANIMAL in the world, and by his side, a SHARK swims peacefully,” the post was captioned.
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Fox’s death is now the third shark attack at Lover’s Point since June 2022, when fellow Kelp Krawler member, Steve Bruemmer, then 62, was bitten on the leg and only survived after he was rescued by nearby paddleboarders...
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Don’t worry. He has healthcare.
If you go into the ocean for any reason, you may encounter a shark. And just as tigers go tiger, sharks are gonna shark.
With her dark wetsuit on, the shark probably thought she was a seal.
Is just me or do the sharks seem a bit angrier this year?
The only explanation we can come up with in cases like this is that the shark made a mistake,
That was no mistake. Sharks doing what sharks do.
She obviously wasn’t a lawyer.
Sharks won’t attack lawyers, professional courtesy.
Sharks will shark.
Can I wade in the water on the back of an elephant with a howdah gun and a couple Mahouts?
Really tragic. And I’m totally absorbed with Shark Week on Discovery and Nat Geo.
Maybe not angry, just hungry,
“This is the most DANGEROUS ANIMAL in the world, and by his side, a SHARK swims peacefully,” the post was captioned.
Ironically ironic.........
It’s Climate Change, gotta be.............
I’ll ner forget what my ol grandpappy, Ahab “Old Salt” Abram, told me many a year ago.
“If a shark bites you, get out of the water.”
I just worry about the land sharks.
Loan sharks are nothing to sneeze at, either.
Isn’t this Sharknado week?
That is why it is important to write in large white lettering “Human - not a seal!” on the wetsuit.
Nonsense, sharks don't mistake people for seals, they don't think, "Oh no, that was a human, not a seal I made an error," no they are merely looking for food just as a lion on the Serengeti in Africa would.
Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white 🎶
and tiger sharks gonna tiger shark
White sharks, which are the most dangerous, are a protected species in California.
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