A 16-foot great white eats away at ‘Scarlet,’ a dead whale miles from Dana Point’s shoreline. Shark tagger Keith Poe, with sharktagger.com, heard about the death of Scarlet last Thursday by whale-watching boat captains who notified Newport lifeguards so the 55-foot humpback could be towed offshore and away from the beach.
Scarlet was a well-known whale with a rough past. Last year, she was entangled for six weeks before she was able to break free of the line.