Record-breaking 32ft shark caught-(trasher shark)

telegraph ^ | 22/11/2007 | By Gary Cleland

[Flavius]

A giant thresher shark - the biggest ever caught - was auctioned this morning after being netted off the coast of Cornwall.

The shark, estimated at 32 feet from nose to fin, was caught by Roger Nowell off Lands End and landed at Newlyn, west Cornwall, yesterday.

The record-breaking thresher shark Difficult to handle: the 32ft thresher shark

The fisherman was trawling for squid and John Dory when the 510 kilo (1,250lb) predator ended up in his net.

[FreeManWhoCan]

Yes. I saw the whole series from 8pm up and they were excellent. I’d like to stay a few nights in that cabin in Canada. There was an episoide on giant squids which was excellent as well. This coming Weds. there should be another Bigfoot specail.

[FreeManWhoCan]

Yes. I saw the whole series from 8pm up and they were excellent. I’d like to stay a few nights in that cabin in Canada. There was an episoide on giant squids which was excellent as well. This coming Weds. there should be another Bigfoot specail.

[NavyCanDo]

I had to wrestle the remote away from the Wife, but I did watch and record the Sasquatch program. It was much better than you average Bigfoot documentary. They were very professional in their work. I wasn’t expecting any conclusive evidence from this program, so I wasn’t disappointed all they could come up with is an unknown primate hair, and maybe a peculiar DNA sample after they did the re-test on the DNA. I was a disappointed that it was not the DNA lab doing the re-test, but the investigators themselves, which wasn’t enough to convince me, or live up to the write-up which states,- “The test results will surprise you”.
What a brilliant idea, though of the screw board. Brutal, though very brutal.
The program left me more than curious though. Besides the refer insulation not being eaten, what evidence is there that a bear did not cause the damage to the cabin? Bears do ransack cabins and campsites looking for food. OK, it was a little late in the year, but bears go into hibernation at different times, some much later than others. How was the cabin entered? Was the door kicked in, (impact point)?, Claw marks?, Teeth marks? Hair? You break into a house there is evidence all over the place, staring with the front door where you see the impression of a size 10 door handle high, with splinters of door frame.

The investigator who camped out by himself makes me feel like a little girly man in comparison. Aint no way on Gods green Earth I would do that on my own. And then he bangs rocks together trying to get a BF to come in? I did 2 years ago camp out in the middle of the now famous Skookum Meadow in WA, but I did so with a friend and my Brother, and we were all well armed.

[1Old Pro]

I hope the catcher feels muy macho.

I thought the story said the shark got caught in his net as he was fishing for something else.