[dainbramaged]

Back in the early 70's, I worked on albacore tuna boats based in southern California - these were called "bait boats" because we fished with bamboo poles hard wired to barbless hooks "in the racks" with live anchovies.
The bait lived in big tanks on deck with circulating pumps, and the overflow hose left a scent in the water that attracted huge numbers of sharks when we stopped to drift for the evening. Imagine two hundred of them circling your boat every night.
Many times a shark would reach up and clamp its mouth on the outflow hose for a taste - I would smack them with the gaff but the smell was too much and they couldn't resist.
I didn't know a great white from a blue shark at the time, "Jaws" hadn't been published yet. More than one fifteen footer that cruised by must have been Carcharodon carcharias, made famous by Peter Benchley.

[Capt. Tom]

More than one fifteen footer that cruised by must have been Carcharodon carcharias, made famous by Peter Benchley.

If they reach that size , probably a white or a big tiger.-Tom