TRIGGER WARNING: If you’ve experienced a traumatic encounter with a great white, please skip past the below video.

(If you’re new to the area and considering surfing around here, please commit it – and this – to memory.)

That comes to us courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, from a field trip to Guadalupe Island in Mexico – a fair preview for those of you gripped in the throes of Shark Week anticipation. Now, the Discovery Channel could do a much better job portraying these fascinating creatures than it does*, but nonetheless, I thought it was an opportune moment to review some of LoCO’s shark-related blasts from the past.

PREVIOUSLY

• Your Week in Ocean: Killer Whales, Killer Dams and a Dead Great White
• Your Week in Ocean: Local Films Score, Steelhead Days
• Shark-Bit Jay Scrivner Back At Work
• Shark Encounter near the North Jetty [UPDATED with PHOTO]
• Flatmo’d: (please caption this coaster)
• This Week in Ocean: Sharks Return and so Does Coastal Cleanup Day
• This Week in Ocean: Shark Sighting, Coastal Commission, Ocean Night
• Outside Magazine Gets Inside Scott Stephens’ Head
• Best Get-Well Card Ever
• Shark Attack Survivor Scott Stephens
• ‘Very Bad’ Shark Attack off the North Jetty
• Prey Tell: The Story Of Local Sharks
• From Sharks to Birds: Attacks and Protection in the Ocean
• He Tangled With a Shark, and Now He Tells His Tale!
• Shark Attack Near Samoa Beach; Surfboard Chomped

* More on what the Discovery Channel’s original goal was, how that’s changed and what’s wrong (and right) about the current Shark Week presentation here.

But let’s keep this all in perspective: