SoCal’s newest island girl is a very large great white shark; video

Somewhere off Southern California, presumably, is a massive great white shark with ties to L.A. but with an island-themed name.

Meet Catalina. She measures perhaps 18 feet and loves to snack on blubbery seals and sea lions.

The top-line predator, featured in the accompanying footage, was photographed Aug. 11 by Keith Poe, who tags sharks for the Marine Conservation Science Institute.

Poe “chummed up” the shark midway between Palos Verdes and Santa Catalina Island a day after...