Glen, that was Matthew who posted the link. Well, we've been dragging our very realistic forms around and not one hit. So far our Harbor Seal was pushed by a juvenille white off Land's End, Catalina, not many miles from last year's hard hit of a plywood sealion shape. So far there's not much interest in shapes by the whites, even when we cruised over a fairly large shape off San Clemente, a large white, who did not show the least interest at all and kept right on swimming inshore.
A colleague and I are doing some work in on-shore and near-shore subsurface nutrient transport modeling using a So Cal beach which has been in the news as the model. For Sage, he'll like this...the shark that cruised us during a dive offshore was a large male shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus), 6-7 feet long and for male makos that's pretty big. Ralph Collier has confirmed at least 2 juvenile whites in the same area.
Looking at the dolphin in the image, a fairly large bottlenose, could you imagine the size of the white that bit one even larger the the dolphin in the image and left a 20.5 inch wide bite (May 2002). That bottlenose, a male, apparently escaped only to then bleed out and die, washing ashore off Pacific Beach.
Whites just are simply amazing, discriminating, and exquisite in their finesse in identifying and attacking their prey. So much so that there has been only 4 confirmed hits on kayaks, all short, wide barges. In two of the hits-both fatalities-the kayakers paddled right up to the scene of a large white feeding on a sealion. The white took exception to this and attacked each kayak like they were other whites. Unfortunately, we're human and not big whites, a nip to us is often fatal.
Still...I fear the freeways and not whites. Now crocs, brown bears and tigers...that's a whole different thing...

: Hi Malcolm, yes I saw that one and I thought it was a shark. The tail seems
: to be vertical in the first picture. I guess I thought Mike (Mike &
: Riki) was dragging one of his forms (out of the picture frame) to attract
: the beast to see if it would nibble on a surfer.

: Glen in Baie-St-Paul.