Somewhere off the coast of Southern California there is said to be a giant great white shark that has a connection to LA, but whose name is reminiscent of the island.

Meet Catalina. She’s maybe 18 feet tall and her favorite food is fat seals and sea lions.

The apex predator seen in the attached footage was photographed on August 11 by Keith Poe, who tags sharks for the Marine Conservation Science Institute.

Poe “baited” the shark halfway between Palos Verdes and Santa Catalina Island, one day after a 52-foot fin whale washed ashore at Torrance Beach and died.

Poe had planned to follow Los Angeles County lifeguards deep into the San Pedro Channel and possibly beyond, where they planned to dump the whale carcass.

Photo courtesy of Keith Poe

But shortly after the carcass was towed from the beach and cut loose by lifeguards about three kilometers offshore, it began to sink.

“When the whale sank, I was just going offshore to fish for mako sharks,” Poe said. “And then this girl showed up.”

On Thursday, Poe introduced “that girl” as the newly documented great white shark Catalina.

Photo courtesy of Keith Poe

“I named her Catalina because she’s a beautiful shark and it’s a beautiful name and because she was on this side of the channel,” Poe told FTW Outdoors.

His footage shows Catalina swimming gracefully and seemingly effortlessly near the surface in the outer channel.

The footage also inspired Poe’s friend Paul McPhee to create the accompanying artwork.

“It was unknown (to science) and was added to the (MCSI) California database,” Poe said on Facebook on Thursday. “Paul was able to capture its size and beauty in this beautiful work of art. The reflections of the sun created the copper tones you see.”

By Saturday evening, there was no sign of the fin whale carcass. Some people almost expected it to float to the surface at some point.