Fisherman films 3m shark's attack on marlin

Nine News- news.ninemsn.com.au ^ | Fri, Feb 11, 2011 | ninemsn staff

[Capt. Tom]

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.

[Capt. Tom]

There is nothing in the ocean that compares to a shortfin mako ,Isurus oxyrinchus. It is good this was caught on film. It is rare to have someone in the water who gets it on film. - Tom

[screaminsunshine]

A good reason not to jump in the water to film catching a fish. You are asking for it.

[Miss_Meyet]

Wow!
It's almost like a new tagline:

Some days, you're the Shark; Some days, you're the Marlin.

See, it's like saying, "Some days, you're the bat; some days, you're the ball." Only...different.

[LouAvul]

See, it's like saying, "Some days, you're the bat; some days, you're the ball."

Or, "Somedays you eats the bar, and somedays the bar eats you."

[Joe 6-pack]

"It is rare to have someone in the water who gets it on film."

I imagine it's even rarer for that someone to make it out of the water :-)

[blackdog]

"Old Man and The Sea"

My favorite book since the age of ten.

[NorthStarStateConservative]

I can tell that the fishermen aren’t West Indian. If they were, you can bet that they’d try to catch and cook both, and leave only two bleached skeletons by the time they reached to shore. They love their sharkmeat down there.

[Cheetahcat]

Mako is good eating ,they should have gaffed the thing.

[ßuddaßudd]

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[Georgia Girl 2]

We used to fish in the Keys every weekend. From time to time we would get a fish up near the boat only to have it chomped in half by a shark. Interestly enough they would not take a Barracuda. I have no idea why.

[Grammy]

fishie ping!

[Hatteras]

“Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

[fungoking]

If I was in the water tagging the fish when this happened the water would have got a little warmer.

[Capt. Tom]

Makos are amazing sharks. In my powerpoint shark presentations when I get to them, the opening slide on makos is one of the few slides with text on it. The Text says "In a class of its own."

When you look at a makos teeth, which are smoothed edged, daggerlike, with gaps between them, you can see the teeth are not designed to cut fish into two pieces- as makos do all the time, everywhere on the planet. They get that job done with sheer determination. Closer together, triangular serrated teeth, is what you would would expect would be a better design.

Through the years we had cod cut in half coming up from the depths and after looking at the smooth sawlike cutoffs, we figured it was done by blue sharks . Then one day a mako smashed into the side of the boat and cut a cod in half, and when I looked at the smooth edged cutoff I realized that in past years it was a mako that cut our cod in half. This is an example of us humans using our experience and reason to figure out something happening in the ocean; and coming to a reasonable wrong conclusion. (That because of the mako's teeth it couldn't leave a bite wound with such clear edges.)

Here is a photo of a tuna we were fighting when a 624 lb mako came up close to the boat and cut it in two. Notice how clean the edges of the tuna wound are. This is not what you would expect to see from a bite by dagger like smooth edged toothed mako. It might just be that when mako rips off the flesh the skin might shear off in a uniform manner. - Tom

[Georgia Girl 2]

We get a lot of Hammerheads down in the Keys. They chase hooked fish all the time.

[JimRed]

Interestly enough they would not take a Barracuda. I have no idea why.

Professional courtesy?

;^)

[Capt. Tom]

We get a lot of Hammerheads down in the Keys. They chase hooked fish all the time.

You have several species of hammerheads in Florida.

In New England the smooth hammerhead makes it up to around Block Is. Rhode Island. I sharkfish north of Cape Cod, so I don't encounter them.

What we do encounter, are some of the largest makos in the world.- Tom

[blackdog]

One of the best, if not the best example of brevity in an epic tale. No word goes to waste.

No man is without purpose. No man is should give in to disappointment and struggle. You're never too old. The simple things are all you need in life. Tribal knowledge is to be imparted on the next generation as a duty. And most of all, manners and humility.