VANDENBERG VILLAGE, CALIF. -

After a 72-hour shutdown, Surf, Wall, and Minuteman beaches have reopened. This comes after two shark attacks along the Central Coast last week.

Friday a group of kayakers said a great White shark attacked them just north of the Vandenberg Air Force Base Boathouse, near Jalama beach.

They described the attack by recounting how they saw a shark get most of its body out of the water to take a bite into one kayak, throwing one of the people inside into the air. The shark then took a second bite out of the kayak. Nobody was hurt.

Several local beaches were shut down as a precaution after the attack, and another incident a day earlier near Jack's Beach.

Surf Beach had already been shut down for much of the summer to protect the Snowy Plover. The endangered bird's nesting season had ended just days before the attacks.

The Shark Research Committee said sharks and their interactions with humans are notoriously difficult to study but says the available data indicates shark attacks along the Pacific Coast are rare.

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Beaches Reopen 72 Hours After Shark Attacks