Baby hammerheads hanging around Cat Harbor

A few baby hammerheads have lately been found hanging around Cat Harbor, the foggy less-visited version of Two Harbors on the backside of Santa Catalina Island.
The baby hammerhead sharks were found mulling about in the last two weeks, among the shallow waters of the rocky backside, where a few much more dangerous sharks such as Great Whites have been spotted in the past. Some spots on the backside are also ripe with rocky reefs for wave riding.
Doug Oudin, the Isthmus' harbor master, wrote in a column for the Catalina Islander newspaper, that there are about 15 to 20 of the sharks found, some caught on fishing lines in the waters near the mud flats.
The hammerheads average less than two feet in length, he said, and were born sometime in the later summer, and are still "hanging around" in Cat Harbor to feed on the shoals of anchovies and sardines in the cove. The sharks are known to inhabit cooler waters.
He said there were no reports of mature hammerheads in the cove, as mother sharks are known to give birth and then abandon their young.
Most hammerhead species are fairly small and are considered harmless to humans. However, the great hammerhead's enormous size and fierceness make it potentially dangerous, though few attacks have been recorded.