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Watch: Shark attacks fishing boat 8 times, leaves ‘astronomical’ damage

Video footage shows a bull shark doing damage to a fishing boat off the Florida coast. “I was shaking like an earthquake,” angler said.

A fisherman said he was “shaking like an earthquake” when a bull shark suddenly attacked his boat while his group attempted to catch cobia off the Florida coast.

Joshua Jorgensen, the originator of YouTube’s BlacktipH Fishing show based in Palm Beach Gardens, captured aerial footage of what amounted to eight attacks.

In the video, he explained the encounter:

“I was flying my drone at the beach and spotted two huge cobia swimming with a bull shark. Cobia is one of the best tasting fish in the ocean. So I called my buddy Carl, and he raced over to try catch them.

“I was following his boat with my drone and then all of a sudden the shark attacked his engines.”

Jorgensen posted the video to Instagram. (Note: On some servers, you might have to click the link to view.)

 

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“The shark attacked the boat five times, swam away and then came back for more,” Jorgensen said in the video. “In total, the shark attacked Carl’s boat eight times.”

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“We’re thinking, you know, maybe he grabbed the propeller,” Carl said in the video. “We weren’t expecting the damage that we had when we got back to the dock, and it was just astronomical. The whole middle of the engine’s completely ripped out. The trim tab’s broken.

“And I didn’t think a shark could actually shake a boat like that. The boat was shaking like a bag of popcorn. Like literally, I was shaking like an earthquake. I was like, what’s going on? I went back there and I noticed it was a shark doing it. I’m like, are you kidding me? This is like a ride from Universal Studios.”

Some commenters on Instagram suggested that the bull shark was protecting the cobia, inferring that they were his for the eating not the fishermen’s.

Another commenter simply stated, “Bull sharks really have anger management issues.”

Miami Beach angler lands record-size bull shark from shore

A South Florida angler appears to have reeled in one of the largest bull sharks ever landed in state waters.

A South Florida angler appears to have reeled in one of the largest bull sharks ever landed in state waters.

According to Local 10 News, Michael Hengel hooked the massive shark from the Miami Beach shore Sunday night after kayaking 300 yards out to drop his baited line.

The shark measured 9-1/2 feet with a 55-inch girth. Based on a measurement formula, Hengel estimated the shark to weigh 550 pounds.

RELATED: Angler lands giant barramundi after bull shark goes after catch

The Florida record for bull sharks, set off Panama City in 1981, stands at 517.44 pounds.

Hengel, 22, told Local 10 News that he released the shark rather than kill it for the sake of a potential record.

–Image courtesy of Michal Hengel

Angler lands massive barramundi as bull shark goes after catch

An angler on Australia’s Gold Coast has landed a massive barramundi after a ferocious battle that also involved a hungry bull shark.

An angler on Australia’s Gold Coast has landed a massive barramundi after a ferocious battle that also involved a hungry bull shark.

Ryan Selvey, 21, was fishing at night from the banks of the Nerang River this week when the 4-foot, 2-inch barramundi struck.

After the catch, while holding the fish on his lap, Selvey explained via TikTok that the “shark came up chasing him just as we were about to land him, nipped him a little bit, but… what a … horse of a barra!” (Warning: the TikTok footage contains profanity.)

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Selvey is quoted by 9News as saying the barramundi was larger than the shark “and the shark couldn’t get a good bite on it.”

Barramundi, which reside in freshwater but spawn in estuary mouths and coastal mud flats, are similar in appearance to snook and closely related to Nile perch. They’re prized by anglers for their fighting ability and as table fare.

Selvey didn’t mention a weight but his fish was exceptionally large.

Then International Game Fish Assn. lists as the world record a 98-pound, 6-ounce barramundi caught at Lake Monduran, Queensland, in 2010.

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Bull shark caught, released near site of fatal attack in Australia

An angler in Perth, Australia, caught and released a 10-foot bull shark Wednesday about a mile from the site of a recent fatal shark attack on a jet skier.

An angler in Western Australia has caught and released a 10-foot bull shark near the site of a recent fatal shark attack on a jet skier.

Kai Boyle, 21, posted images to social media showing him posing with the “Swan River Bull Shark” he landed late Wednesday at the East Fremantle boat ramp.

After the catch, Boyle shoved the shark into the river and watched it swim away.  He stated on Facebook that an earlier post had been “taken down for abuse, but why not let people know what’s in the Swan River?”

Last Saturday, Stella Berry, 16, was fatally attacked at Fremantle after jumping into the river from her jet ski. Boyle’s catch occurred about a mile from that location.

According to 9News, Boyle’s catch and a confirmed shark sighting on Thursday prompted a search for the shark. News Perth tweeted that beaches along the Swan River “are in the process of being closed.”

The attack on Berry was the first fatal shark attack in the river in 100 years.

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Bull sharks, found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world, can be found in saltwater and freshwater.

According to the International Shark Attack File, bull sharks are responsible for at least 100 unprovoked attacks on humans, including 27 fatal attacks.

The Florida Museum states on its website:

“It is considered by many to be the most dangerous shark in the world. It’s large size, proclivity for freshwater, abundance and proximity to human populations, particularly in the tropics, makes it more of a potential threat than is either the white shark or the tiger shark.”

–Image courtesy of Kai Boyle

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Watch: Fisherman loses huge king mackerel to bull shark

A fisherman hooked a king mackerel off the pier on Pawleys Island in South Carolina, but before he could land it, the tax man paid a visit.

A fisherman hooked into a huge king mackerel off the pier on Pawleys Island in South Carolina, but before he could land it, the tax man paid a visit.

In this instance, the tax man was a big bull shark that ruined any chance of Jim landing his fish.

Why are sharks known as the tax man among the fishing community? It’s because of their tendency to collect a portion of their hard-earned catches, as seen in the video John Harrison provided to WPDE, which posted it on Facebook.

The video shows the angler bringing the king mackerel to the surface. You then hear Jim’s fishing buddy say, “Get the gaff, get the gaff, get the graff, nice king. Don’t mess this up, Jim.”

When someone finally lowered the gaff toward the fish, a bull shark came up and snatched it by the tail and swam off.

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Other anglers sympathized with Jim meeting the tax man. Among the comments:

“Tax man never takes a day off.”

“Gotta pay the tax man (shark).”

“The tax man always comes.”

“Pay the tax man.”

“The tax man shall always collect. Time to pay your dues.”

Unfortunately, this tax man took 100 percent of Jim’s catch.

Spearfisherman fights off shark attack; ‘thought it was my last day’

A spearfisherman feared for his life when a shark charged and bit him in the leg, forcing him to fight off the attack with his speargun.

A spearfisherman in Australia “thought it was my last day” Sunday when a bull shark charged and bit him in the leg, forcing him to fight off the attack with his speargun.

Phillip Brown, 24, was fishing for barramundi near Rocky Island off Yarrabah when he came face to face with the shark after exploring a cave 10-feet deep, according to TropicNow (a news agency in Cairns) and the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

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“We sort of both got a fright from each other, but I was still a long way from the rocks, so I tried to swim a bit faster to the rock,” he told TropicNow.

“I knew what was going to happen; he’s a bull shark, he’s going to have a go at me.

“As I just grabbed the rock, it came up from behind and grabbed my leg.

“I just felt a big, numb jerk. It twisted, popped my knee out the socket. If I didn’t have the dislocated knee, I think he probably would have ripped it off.

“I stabbed him on top of the head with the spear gun and he took off, but he kept circling around because I was losing a lot of blood.”

But by then, Brown was in ankle-deep water where two friends and two nephews came to his rescue, using an anchor rope as a tourniquet around his thigh and a shirt tied to his lower leg to stem the flow of blood.

They carried him to the boat and transported him to a hospital in his hometown of Yarrabah where he was initially treated before being airlifted to Cairns Hospital where he underwent surgery. The extent of his injuries was unclear.

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“I thought it was my last day,” he told TropicNow. “I thought I was going to lose my leg or lose my life.”

The traumatic experience has not deterred him from going spearfishing again.

“I go a lot of places diving — Batt Reef, Tongue Reef, all the outer reefs,” he told ABC.

“And then I get torn up at home, right in my own front yard — it was just the wrong place at the wrong time I guess.

“I’ll be going back diving, but I won’t be diving back at home. I’ll just go back out to the reefs, in the clear water.”

Photo of sharks courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

Shark charges spearfisherman, bites off swim fin

Video footage shows a bull shark charging a spearfisherman in an encounter in which the 17-year-old diver thought he would lose his foot.

Lachlan Pye, a 17-year-old spearfisherman, experienced a frightening encounter with a bull shark that “came out of nowhere” and bit off his right swim fin. The young diver thought he would lose his foot.

The harrowing incident occurred last Saturday off Lucinda, Queensland, Australia. Pye was diving with a friend as another friend remained on the boat to keep an eye out for such an incident as this.

It started when a friend shot a golden snapper that fell off his spear, Pye explained to USA Today/For The Win Outdoors.

“I went down for a look and saw it just sitting on the bottom,” Pye said. “I took the easy shot and started to come up. As I came up, this bull shark charged me. It came out of nowhere.”

The shark wasn’t interested in the fish but Pye’s swim fin, which it bit into and pulled off his foot, as seen in the video:

“I thought I was going to lose my foot to be honest with you,” Pye told For The Win Outdoors. “I thought it was going to try to bite me again. I was just kicking up trying to get away from it.

“When I came in, I was really freaking out and was in shock.”

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Pye lost the swim fin, but not the fish or speargun.

At first, he also lost his desire to go diving again, but he regained it when people told him his fins had attracted the shark with their flashy, white rails along the sides.

Pye’s mother, Karen Wood, probably desires he not go diving again, however.

“When he came home, he was quite vague and sketchy about the details,” Wood told For The Win Outdoors. “I was having birthday drinks and he casually told me a shark bit his new fin. I asked him, did it do much damage and he’s like, yeah, it took it. Didn’t go into too much detail. Then he showed me his video the next day and I nearly died from a heart attack once I saw how serious it was and how big the shark was.”

Photos courtesy of Lachlan Pye and ViralHog.

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Watch: Bull sharks steal anglers’ catch in frenzied attack

Passengers on a Florida sportfishing charter witnessed up close the raw power of voracious bull sharks as they attacked a hooked sailfish.

Passengers on a recent Florida sportfishing charter witnessed up close the raw power of voracious bull sharks as they attacked a sailfish that had been reeled to the stern.

The accompanying footage, captured by Rhonda’s Osprey on Feb. 26 off Palm Beach, shows the chaotic moments after at least two bull sharks appeared after one of the crew had grabbed the wire leader in an attempt to safely release the sailfish.

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“Grab its bill!” Capt. Joe Drosey is heard saying, only to bemoan moments later, “Ain’t nothing to grab now.”

First mate Sasha Lickle was closest to the action, smartly keeping her arms raised as she held the leader, watching helplessly as the sharks devoured the catch.

Drosey told the Miami Herald that this type of dramatic encounter is occurring more frequently as sharks have appear to have discovered that a hooked game fish is a lot easier to catch as a free-swimming game fish.

“Sailfish swim 65 mph, so they can’t catch them on their own,” Drosey explained. “It’s a huge problem. Three years ago, I’d say sharks ate 5 to 10 percent of the fish we caught. Last year, it was about 10 to 15 percent. This year, 25 percent of every one we catch are eaten.”

–Video courtesy of Rhonda’s Osprey, via the Miami Herald