A teenage trainee lifeguard thought she was about to be killed by a shark as she completed a swim test — only to find out she was the victim of a rare attack by a sea lion. Phoebe Beltran, 15, was just 25 feet from the shore in Long Beach on a 1,

Phoebe Beltran, a hopeful cadet for the Long Beach Fire Department Junior Lifeguard Program, was taking a swimming test as part of her training on Monday when “out of nowhere, I feel something biting my arm,” Beltran told KTLA.

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 area of Ocean Boulevard and Cherry Avenue,