What's the deal on that 14' Great Hammerhead caught by rod & reel off Singer Island, WPB March 5 or 6.
Looked like a big fish on my local NBC news affiliates 12n newscast??
Thanks,
Stan
Great Hammerhead caught off Singer Island - WPB
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scubaski
, Mar 06 2008 11:49 AM
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 11:49 AM
Hi S. Florida and WPB Divers,
What's the deal on that 14' Great Hammerhead caught by rod & reel off Singer Island, WPB March 5 or 6.
Looked like a big fish on my local NBC news affiliates 12n newscast??
Thanks,
Stan
What's the deal on that 14' Great Hammerhead caught by rod & reel off Singer Island, WPB March 5 or 6.
Looked like a big fish on my local NBC news affiliates 12n newscast??
Thanks,
Stan
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 04:55 PM
Hi S. Florida and WPB Divers,
What's the deal on that 14' Great Hammerhead caught by rod & reel off Singer Island, WPB March 5 or 6.
Looked like a big fish on my local NBC news affiliates 12n newscast??
Thanks,
Stan
GGggrrrrrr... I have no idea but will check it out............gggrrrrrrr....
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 06:55 PM
This is the post on scuba diving magazine board:
Palm Beach County, Florida - A hammerhead shark measuring more than 13 feet and weighing more than a thousand pounds was caught Wednesday off Singer Island, that's in Palm Beach County. The fisherman who caught the shark says when they tried to weigh it the scale stopped working at 1,038 pounds.
The man who caught the shark, Fritz Van Der Grift says he never intended to kill the shark, he says he just wanted to get a few pictures. But the creature was injured in the fight and became exhausted and drowned.
Marine experts say while the shark didn't live, research that can be done on the animal can help experts for years to come. The sharks are not protected and experts say the shark is not a man-eater. One boat captain says he wouldn't have any problem swimming with a hammerhead.
The leviathan's organs will be flown to labs as far away as San Diego for research.
http://www.tampabays...x?storyid=75544
Tampa Bay's 10 News
Susie
Palm Beach County, Florida - A hammerhead shark measuring more than 13 feet and weighing more than a thousand pounds was caught Wednesday off Singer Island, that's in Palm Beach County. The fisherman who caught the shark says when they tried to weigh it the scale stopped working at 1,038 pounds.
The man who caught the shark, Fritz Van Der Grift says he never intended to kill the shark, he says he just wanted to get a few pictures. But the creature was injured in the fight and became exhausted and drowned.
Marine experts say while the shark didn't live, research that can be done on the animal can help experts for years to come. The sharks are not protected and experts say the shark is not a man-eater. One boat captain says he wouldn't have any problem swimming with a hammerhead.
The leviathan's organs will be flown to labs as far away as San Diego for research.
http://www.tampabays...x?storyid=75544
Tampa Bay's 10 News
Susie
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 07:21 PM
I had caught a real quick blurb and was wondering what happened.......
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Posted 06 March 2008 - 08:53 PM
This is the post on scuba diving magazine board:
Palm Beach County, Florida - A hammerhead shark measuring more than 13 feet and weighing more than a thousand pounds was caught Wednesday off Singer Island, that's in Palm Beach County. The fisherman who caught the shark says when they tried to weigh it the scale stopped working at 1,038 pounds.
The man who caught the shark, Fritz Van Der Grift says he never intended to kill the shark, he says he just wanted to get a few pictures. But the creature was injured in the fight and became exhausted and drowned.
Marine experts say while the shark didn't live, research that can be done on the animal can help experts for years to come. The sharks are not protected and experts say the shark is not a man-eater. One boat captain says he wouldn't have any problem swimming with a hammerhead.
The leviathan's organs will be flown to labs as far away as San Diego for research.
http://www.tampabays...x?storyid=75544
Tampa Bay's 10 News
....the guy never intended to kill the shark ??? ...just get a few pictures ???? .....that's about as believable as the Japanese whaling fleets just doing whale 'research' !!!! Moronic twits like that are the reason I'm focusing my dive trips on trying to see the big critters before they're completely gone.......and forget about doing wreck/cave diving, as those things aren't going anywhere for a long time...folks, see the big animals before they're all exterminated....honestly, I believe we're living in the "last days" with respect to sea life, humanity is incapable of self control and will soon fish-out/climate change the world's oceans!
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Posted 07 March 2008 - 06:10 AM
The only way a Hammerhead can "drown" is if it is pulled up into the air for several hours. Idiocy...
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