It started as a normal surf session for RJ LaMendola. He was roughly 150 yards from the beach in Southern California, riding ...

“When conditions are right, waters off the coast of California can experience large-scale toxic algal blooms that are capable ...

LaMendola called CIMWI about the incident. His experience off Oxnard Friday was the first aggressive sea lion reported to the ...

In a Facebook post describing the incident, LaMendola wrote that he was surfing when a frightening sea lion attacked him and tried to rip him off his board. The surfer wrote that the animal then ...

A surfer in Southern California was terrorized by an aggressive sea lion that bit through his wetsuit, dragged him off his board and continued stalking him. A rattled RJ LaMendola wound up in a ...

He was “riding the waves in solitude” about 150 yards from the shore when “out of nowhere, a sea lion erupted from the water, hurtling toward (him) at full speed,” he said in the post.

"It started as an ordinary session, just me and my board, about 150 yards from the shore, riding the waves in solitude ... out of nowhere, a sea lion erupted from the water, hurtling toward ...

He was "riding the waves in solitude" about 150 yards from the shore when "out of nowhere, a sea lion erupted from the water, hurtling toward (him) at full speed," he said in the post. LaMendola ...

A marine mammal nonprofit has assessed more than 200 sea lions and 10 dolphins apparently ... about 150 yards from the shore, riding the waves in solitude," he wrote after being treated in the ...