Big Shark gets Eaten after Chasing Wrong Diver..3/27

Are there any links to this story.....?

Neill

Yes, there is... but, everytime I post a story, you seem to be the only one who doubts it..why is that??? Everyone knows that us free divers are capable of great deeds and can shoot the eye out of a great white at 20 paces... The funny thing is....that reality is often stranger than fiction when you go under the ocean surface

How about links to the story. Not doubting, but maybe there are pics available to make the story more interesting / complete the tale??




Getem', Capt'n Skip

Although not the one under discussion, here are a couple of news reports of divers killing sharks with the spear gun.

This one, with picture, about a ten foot tiger shark in the Bahamas:
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=95132648100

This one about a four hundred pound Mako at the Coronados:
http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/geology/whatnew1.htm

Just for the record...I never doubt LB Bob's shark stories...I just wish I could!!! I'd feel safer!!!!! .

But...this one omits location...I can't help myself...much as I don't want to know...I have to know...where did this happen?????

spearing the mako

the author calls spearing a 426 LB mako a second before he was to become its' lunch a "significant event". I wonder what a "truly astonishing event" would entail?

http://www.spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=27371&page=1&pp=15

"This has got to be a joke...."

I also think it's likely that this is a joke on that board.

Spearboard is the correct link..The kid forgot to mention where he was diving but I think he was down on one of the Orange County beaches near Dana or Laguna. e mailed a couple of guys who know him and it was no joke.he didn't have a camera at the beach, so he photographed the filets at home..Spearing large sharks isn't unusual..I think I still hold the CA F&G spearfishing record for blue sharks after a 9' blue weighing 234 lbs tried to make me his lunch at Santa Cruz Island...

Hawk, thanks or the links....enjoyed reading it >>>>"We were diving and this big shark come around [and] by the end of the day he didnâ??t act right so I couldnâ??t afford to wait," said Mr. Barr, who tried to ignore the shark but the shark kept advancing."

yeah, no $hit. he was in the water with the shark for what appears to be "forever". the definition of forever in this case would be, "forever- one second longer than it would take you $hit your wetsuit, surface to the top and run across the water back to the boat". he also was quoted as saying that he thought that it was a great white because of how large the shark was. how long is the definition of "forever" again? also, he stated, that the shark charged him with it's mouth open and just as he fired the spear the shark shook it's head and the spear ended up hitting it in the gill area. whatever. kind of convinent that he ended up filleting the fish out and taking the meat home. so much for the "it's coming right for us" theory.

monty
21' striper
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I particularly enjoyed the link to the Monterey bay aquarium GWS as the type of shark that he ate. ("The animal in front. not the one in back. the one in back is a tuna"). This is a very funny thread.

Well boys, it is possible that I may have to eat crow over this one. There is currently a 10-page battle taking place on Spearboard with everyone taking sides as to whether it is legit or not. Insults are flying in all directions...It is funny as hell to read...I was willing to believe it because the guys I dive with are capable of pulling it off and eating the eater would be in line with their morbid sense of humor..

Hey Bob

Thommy was internet fishing and caught you LOL

Funny post to entertain everyone during the slow season.

Dive Deep and Fish Hard!

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