{"id":149752,"date":"2019-03-26T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149752"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:02:23","slug":"it-looked-into-my-eyes-surfer-recounts-close-call-with-18-foot-great-white-shark-at-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=149752","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It looked into my eyes&#8217;: Surfer recounts close call with 18-foot great white shark at Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of risks associated with surfing at Mavericks, the iconic surf spot just north of Half Moon Bay. If the five-story waves aren&#8217;t enough to scare you off, there are also\u00a0great white sharks to contend with from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Drake Stanley was reminded of this fact of nature while out on the water Sunday. It was around 1:30 p.m. He had been surfing earlier in the day, but was doing a shift of rescue duty on a jet ski, where he helps out surfers who have nasty wipeouts.<\/p>\n<p>He was watching the surf when\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/whales-sharks\/article\/mavericks-great-white-shark-surfing-picture-rescue-13718723.php#next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pictures and More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of risks associated with surfing at Mavericks, the iconic surf spot just north of Half Moon Bay. If the five-story waves aren&#8217;t enough to scare you off, there are also\u00a0great white sharks to contend with from time to time. Drake Stanley was reminded of this fact of nature while out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,54,33,31,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-bodyboarding","category-kiteboard","category-pwc","category-surf","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149753,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149752\/revisions\/149753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}