A man was attacked and seriously injured by a shark in the water near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, a California coastal town 118 miles south of San Francisco, on Wednesday morning, officials said.
Pacific Grove Police Department received a call about the incident at 10:40 a.m., Sheila Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the department, told SFGATE. The department said the elderly man was swimming.
The man was taken by ambulance to the Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Hoffman said. His condition is unknown.
Sea Palm’s polling activity and the Lovers Point beach and coast are closed until Saturday.
“They’re using a drone to try to find the shark in the water,” Hoffman said.
It is not known what kind of shark bit the man.
Lovers Point Park is a popular gathering place in Pacific Grove with a sandy beach and a patch of grass with rocky cliffs at its western end flowing into the ocean.
Shark attacks are uncommon in California, but they do occur from time to time. Nearly a year ago, on June 28, a 35-year-old man was swimming near Gray Keith Cove Beach in San Mateo County when he was bitten in the leg by a great white shark 6 to 8 feet away.
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