VIDEO: Lunging sea lion startles sunrise swimmers at B.C. beach

Cold-plunging in the waters of Esquimalt Lagoon is supposed to take your breath away. But for two sunrise swimmers, a routine dip got the blood pumping in more ways than one.
Langford locals Ennio Titarenko and Andrew Wierzbicki had barely been in the water five minutes when a bull sea lion surfaced roughly 15 feet away from them.
Titarenko, a former commercial diver, wasn’t bothered by its sudden appearance, but for his pal Wierzbicki, it was a different story.
“I am very afraid of