A drone pilot known for his excellent footage of sharks and other marine wildlife recently captured a rare visitor off the coast of southern California—a hammerhead shark. Juan Morales of sky_angel_drones shared the hammerhead video to his Instagram page, and it got a lot of attention locally and beyond.
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Morales’s drone reportedly spotted the hammerhead shark offshore from Gaviota Beach near Santa Barbara. Hammerheads are rare along the California coast, because they prefer warmer, tropical or subtropical waters.
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Watch a hammerhead shark off the coast of California below (or see it here).
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