Man Wrestles Shark for Two Hours

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@rrjc

[quote]With a tangle of lines hanging off the stern, Kirkconnell couldn’t immediately speed over to McInnis.Clasen (nickname: “Ragin’ Cajun”), still in the water and with just seconds to act, swam toward his friend, speargun in hand.

By the time Clasen reached McInnis, the shark had tightened its circle, and the men couldn’t reach the boat and fend off the predator simultaneously. Clasen has spent much of his life swimming harmoniously with sharks, but this one had a different feel. “Every bone in my body was telling me that this shark was up there to feed,” says Clasen.
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Suddenly looks different if you don’t solely quote the parts that back up your point of view, doesn’t it? Sharks do circle because the have no other way of breathing, but if they tighten the circle, chances are they want to find out what those strange things they’re swimming around are, and as you correctly mentioned they can only determine that by taking a bite out of them.

Also, 150 may not be far, but if you have several lines to pull in, you won’t make it in time if the shark has decided to feed.

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[quote]Gregus wrote:
Im all for sharks and strongly believe that their overhunting, mainly by the Japanese fishing fleets, is a crime against the planet. The Japanese with their odd delicacies like eating shark fin, lol. They cut off the fins of thousands of sharks and throw them back in the water. Sick fucks.[/quote]

I’ve had shark fin soup (in China). It’s really fucking good.

But yeah, pretty fucked up how they obtain the fins. It’s like poachers cutting off elephant tusks for the ivory, except the elephants can live without them (I think).

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this was an unfortunate situation where an unfortunate thing happened. i love sharks, and most lovers of the water (which a good spearfisher should) would love sharks too. thats life, things die in unfortunate ways. move the fuck on

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one fucking shark died !!! ONE no balance was upset lol

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[quote]Judas wrote:
so if there were no sharks it would be a happy situation cos i would be eattin some nice fish n drinkin beer in the boat never worryin about a fuckin white pointer killing me or stealing my fish.[/quote]

Ok, so you’re scared of sharks. We get it. Oh, check those 5-6 people who were “eaten” to see if maybe they were “attacked.” Fool.

As for this, you’re still being absurdly ignorant. If there were no sharks, the oceans would fail on a major level. That effects your nice fish dinner, for the record.

[quote]Judas wrote:
one fucking shark died !!! ONE no balance was upset lol[/quote]

More ignorance. We’re on the fast track to really fucking ourselves over by killing these sharks.

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this must mean i get to post this picture again.

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Do you think she’d send me naked pics?

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[quote]Rock_Steady wrote:
this must mean i get to post this picture again.[/quote]

lol

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
OG PMed me about this last night, and I didn’t see a thread on it.

Anyway, here’s what I think:

“Craig grappled with the aggressive shark for two hours, shooting it seven times with his speargun before finally killing it, after it began to circle filmmaker Ryan.”

You’re damn right it’s going to circle. Two guys were speardiving (spearing fish, spilling blood) in the gulf and didn’t expect sharks to come?

When sharks do come, (and they will), and they start to circle, you get the fuck out of the water. [Their home.] If you don’t, expect to get bit. Sharks use their teeth to figure out what stuff is. It’s the only method they have, no matter how inefficient. They also have a Z-line, which is a line that runs along their body that senses when animals are in distress, (such as a tuna that was just speared, or two punk spearfishermen splashing around underwater with rapid changes in heart rate due to breath hold diving) from MILES away. An animal in distress is an easy meal. It’s their instinct.

The fact that they were free diving (no SCUBA) allows them to appear silently underwater due to the fact that they don’t breathe, or give off bubbles. ANY marine animal will recognize someone silent as something that should be underwater. (We shouldn’t.) It’s the same reason professional photographers use rebreathers, because they’re silent and marine life aren’t afraid of the human then.

I’d say “I bet if these guys were on SCUBA, the shark would have been scared off and left” but since there was blood in the water, it probably wouldn’t have.

Who the fuck feels the need to wrestle a shark for two hours when you can get the fuck out of the water. I do think I see the outline of a boat floating in one of the pictures, but either way, with THOSE freediving fins, you can swim fast enough to make a wake. That’s really fast. There’s no doubt in my mind that this cunt couldn’t have left the water and everyone [including the shark] could have been completely unharmed.

Plus, where the fuck was the film crew if there was a movie being made?

The bottom line is that this fuck wanted to be macho and kill a shark so he could brag about it. Look at that picture he took with that smug fucking look across his face. Prick.

Plus, he didn’t “wrestle a shark for two hours.” He fucking cheap-shot the shark with a fucking speargun, then shot it 6 more times and made it suffer for two hours, and kept it on a leash and then ‘wrestled’ it. You cannot wrestle a 12 foot shark. Even slow swimming sharks are too fast for a human to keep up with. Unless, you know, you shoot it 7 fucking times.

If I shot a guy 7 times, then waited for him die, then dragged him ass down the driveway to my car, it wouldn’t fucking be glorified by the media. But that’s because sharks kill more humans a year than humans do… Fucking idiots.

“a desperate bid to save his diving companion” my ass.[/quote]

Estrogen overload.

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I don’t see how this is any different than punching a guy who tries to take your Big Mac away and eat it. Sharks that won’t get their own food should be punished.

DB

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
LankyMofo wrote:
Even if he did do this on purpose, are you against all types of hunting? Do you post a thread about every deer that gets shot?

No, but hunters hunt to hunt. They admit they want to kill the animal. They also usually eat the animal.

This is a story glorifying this guy for “wrestling” a shark when all he did was shoot it, torture it, then have him (and a bunch of his friends help him) drag it on a boat.

There’s a difference.

Also, humans are killing the shark population that is having a HUGE negative impact on our oceans. When we fuck with our oceans, it fucks with US. Overfishing sharks has become a MASSIVE problem.

Anytime you eliminate a top predator in any environment, you’re setting yourself up for huge problems.[/quote]
You are a fucking pussy. What that man did is awesome. You are looking at it through a west coast bitch lens.

And please go ahead and explain the huge impact overfishing shark has on you. Don’t just spit shit you hear from west coast bitches and regurgitate on a forum in hopes of seeing a picture of tits that probably aren’t even really hers.

And my favorite form of hunting is dove hunting but I have sat in a tree surrounded by a hog trap full of dogs with a knife. When a hog entered the trap, the dogs pinned it down and I jumped out of the tree and slit it’s throat. Most thrilling hunt ever. I would love to try this shark shit.

Fuck your man pussy. Eat some soy and chew a dick.

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[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
NJ-Polska wrote:
First of all I would like to point out spear fishing is a miss understood sport, not only physically taxing and dangerous its also takes a high level of skill to attain the depths needed to fish for yellow fin.

I’m not misunderstanding the sport. I have a full knowledge of the dangers of freediving/spearfishing, including shallow water blackout. Fuck, I’ve even coughed up blood after freediving to 20m.

Imagine that you were at a depth of 90ft holding your breath and trailing around a stringer of bleeding fish, a grey suit shows up. You now have two choices, head for the boat or ignore the shark.

Ignoring the shark would be a bad idea so you start to head for the boat (at this point you havent breathed in about 2:00) but the shark begins to circle a member of the film crew. Now a shark is circling (feeding behavior) an untrained crew member. You panic and shoot.

No, you can head for the boat AND pay attention to the shark. Like you said, at this point you’re at a 2 minute breath hold, how much longer can one stay at depth before ascending without risking SWB? You’ve got to surface at some point, regardless of what the shark is doing.

“You panic and shoot.” Excellent choice, chief. Because panicking (and the physiological effects that go with it) isn’t a HUGE red-flag to the shark that there’s a scared, potentially easy meal in the immediate area.

Also wrestling the shark is a lie. The shark was shot with a spear attached to a float line. This means that when the shark was hit the line on the gun detached, leaving the shark trailing a float that was then atached to the boat. In my opinion this was the safest and most humane way to handle the situation.

Really, because letting an injured shark swim (and towards the end) ATTEMPT to swim, and as a result, ATTEMPT to breathe for two fucking hours is humane?

Is it a fair fight? no

This is my point, and this news article is glorifying it.

I dont think the guy was looking to kill a shark. No real spero does.

If you honestly think there aren’t any guys out there who would be willing to kill a shark for bragging rights, you’re a naive fuck.[/quote]

I would. If it wasn’t illegal I’d kill a handful of people for bragging rights too to be honest.