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FREEPORT, TX (KTRK) -- It's the shark that's making waves across the nation. It jumped on board a boat near Freeport with three men inside. We're now hearing from the fisherman who was on board with the live shark as it thrashed around for hours. Now he and the shark have become celebrities. On Tuesday, it was a draw. On Wednesday, you had to wait in line. "It's just been crazy, we've had people piling in the door, I mean huge numbers of people coming in," said Mark Friudenberg with Captain Mark's Seafood Market. The large freezer at Captain Mark's...

A fisherman has captured amazing video of an underwater encounter with a hungry 3m mako shark off the NSW coast. Al McGlashan, a fishing columnist for the Daily Telegraph, found himself face to face with the shark while catching marlin about 50km southeast of Port Stephens. His crew had caught a 2.5m marlin and Mr McGlashan jumped in the water to tag the fish. "The marlin was being revived for release after tagging when I felt a swirl of water around me," Mr McGlashan told the newspaper.

Tourism minister insists diving will continue because 'sharks will not attack divers'. Foreign Office warns Britons to avoid cheap dive tour operators . Egyptian officials have insisted it is safe for tourists to go back into the water despite a 70-year-old German woman being killed in Sharm el-Sheikh after another shark attack. The latest attack has echoes of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film Jaws, where hunters capture a shark they claim is behind a fatal attack only for the fish to strike again when officials said it was safe to go back into the water. Briton Ellen Barnes, 31, from...