Attan
I have too many shark stories.
I will give you only one.
long time ago, I was diving in the lump, louisiana,on Eddie Mays new 26 foot Glacier bay Cat, we had shot enough wahoo the day before, the pic of the fat wahoo was on that trip, we broke the wahoo record 3 times the day before,so we were trying to shoot only Yellowfin tuna, I had shot one 91 pound yellowfin tuna the day before but my friends had none so they were in this unique tuna mode.
We had a plan of two divers in the water at the same time, Eddie was in the water with kurt when we heard a sound similar to a lion roar, by the second time the lion sound was heard we notice it was Eddies breakfast being used as chum right out of his mouth.
So it was my time to join Kurt in the water, suited up, jumped in and as soon as finished loading my 6 band gun could see a few pieces of black fin tuna around me, the guys from the boat were chumming the h out of this place.
All of a sudden I see this huge shape aproaching, it was heading right at kurt, it looked like a really fat tuna, but it had something diferent besides the bus size, it had huge teeth just hanging out of its mouth.
All of a sudden am seen this white shark right in front of my friend, as am looking sideways, i could see the huuuge tail, and big eyes, things turn ugly when without me noticing anything else, the shark starts a big jump right in front of kurt.
We had a line in the water, like 300 feet long so we could dive and grab the end of the float as the current took us there, so the guys at the boat start pulling , we were thinking that the shark had cut kurt in two, but we knew the half with the head was intact as we could hear him screaming really loud, and while the guys pulled us to the back of the boat, a lot of bubles were forming all around me, so i could not see anything, i was just waiting for the shark to hity me next, as i get to the boat, the guys are screaming so i get in, i jumped faster than i can think of doing it, and when am thinking that was fast, Kurt was rushing me to get out of his way on the way in, so I knew he had his legs intact.
I second later he says, BIG LONG FIN MAKO SHARK, i remember thinking, "dude, if that is not a white shark, thats the biggest mako I will ever see in my life".
As we look at each other, the guys start to hug us and ask if we are ok, Kurt had this gun , he has built from scratch, the first hybrid i had ever seen, and he called it Cañon de Muerte.
Well, Cañon the muerte was still loaded with 5 , 3/4 bands, and in the jaws of this gorgeous, fat ,white bellied shark, and it was trailing really slowly his gun, bungie,and his float with the flag, at an easy but steady pace.
Kurt starts screaming again that he wants his gun back, so we let loose the anchor that had a float on it, and follow the flag, the shark is right at the surface, with the fins out of the water and all, just like the jaws movie, and i cant think of how we are going to get the gun back, I was dumb enough to say I would go in the water and shoot it, but cant tell you the response of the guys, because the "F" word is nothing compared to what I got from them.
We got hold of the bungie on several ocasions, until Kurt pulled right out of the mouth with a big pull, and that was it for the day.
Hope you enjoy it :crazy: