Indeed, go online and read the surfing websites for southern California, where there are a gazillion sea lions.

They do not eat surfers. On occasion they will bite a surfer in a territorial display (get off my lawn). But they do not eat them. The surfing websites rank them, on the danger scale, as a 1 out 10, meaning the same danger level as a pelican bird.

Think about it: Millions of hours surfing, millions of hours of humans swimming, millions of hours of nearby sea lions, and yet no humans as supper.

As a surfer or swimmer you are probably at higher risk of being eaten by a cannibal human than by a sea lion...