A teenage girl was attacked, Sunday, in the waters off Long Beach by an aggressive sea lion. The 15-year-old was participating in a swim test for the local cadet lifeguard program, when the marine ...

A 15-year-old girl was attacked by a sea lion on a Southern Californian beach but mistook it for a shark. Phoebe Beltran was due to take a swim test for Long Beach’s cadet lifeguard program on ...

I didn’t know what to expect,” said the Long Beach mother. Phoebe suffered several surface-level puncture wounds from — not a shark — but an aggressive sea lion’s bite. The teenager said ...

A 15-year-old girl was attacked during her swim test in Long Beach by a sea lion sickened by a recent toxic algae bloom, according to the girl’s family. On Sunday, Phoebe Beltran was completing ...

A teenage girl and junior lifeguard candidate was attacked and bitten in the arm by an aggressive sea lion during a tryout in Long Beach on Sunday, March 30. The attack occurred around noon in the ...

A 15-year-old Long Beach girl is still recovering from a sea lion attack that happened while she was swimming over the weekend. Phoebe Beltran was finishing a 1,000-yard swim on Sunday at Alamitos ...

The teen was instead met with a hostile sea lion, a marine animal that can weigh ... cadet test once she has recovered. “I love the beach. I love the ocean. I love swimming,” she said.