A roughly 15-foot great white shark was captured on video last week swimming close to Santa Monica’s shores, providing a rare glimpse of the fully grown apex predator idling in near-urban waters.

Though a near-urban swimming spot feels far removed from the dangers of the open ocean, sharks are never far. Recently captured drone footage makes that fact terrifyingly clear, with images of a massive great white shark hanging out near the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, California.

A rare sighting of a fully grown great white shark just 50 yards off the coast of Santa Monica was captured on video this week, challenging long-held assumptions that only juveniles pass through the Santa Monica Bay. The close encounter on Thursday was filmed by YouTuber The Malibu Artist, a marine filmmaker known for tracking […]