Search continues for Kelp Krawlers co-founder after suspected shark attack in Pacific Grove
Source: Monterey County Now
By Katie Rodriguez
The Pacific Grove Police Department and Monterey Fire Department responded to reports of a missing swimmer off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove at 12:04pm Sunday, Dec. 21, after witnesses reported seeing a human-shark encounter. A search-and-rescue operation involving the U.S. Coast Guard, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and California State Parks continued until 8pm, but the swimmer was not found. Search efforts resumed at 7am Monday, Dec. 22.
The missing swimmer is Erica Fox, 55, co-founder of the Kelp Krawlers swimming group, which she helped start 20 years ago. Fox was one of about 15 people swimming with the group Sunday morning, according to Sara Rubin, one of the swimmers present and the Weekly’s editor. The Kelp Krawlers group entered the water from Lovers Point Beach at 11:30am, Rubin says. The group swam west around Lovers Point into Otter Cove. Fox took a wider route on her return swim back toward the beach. Besides the Kelp Krawlers, several snorkelers and other people were recreating in the water at the time, according to Rubin.
Just after noon, one swimmer who had already exited the water reported seeing what he believed was a shark off the point. A man unaffiliated with the swimming group who was driving by called 911 to report a shark in the water. An incident command post was established at the Lovers Point beach parking lot. Officials closed the beach and brought all those recreating out of the water; some Kelp Krawlers were escorted out by two members of the group on a stand-up paddle board and in a pack-raft.
The group of swimmers then worked with the Fire Department officials to review the number and identities of swimmers that had exited the water, and discovered that Fox was not accounted for.
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It sounds like a Great White Shark and others have been bitten in the past the article says
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