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Spear Fisherman Vs 12 Foot Tiger Shark

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Link - Click through. No reason to quote anything here because the pictures of the fisherman knifing the shark are in the article.
 
Haven't read the article but AFAIK sharks need to keep moving to breathe. If they stop they cannot breathe, they "drown" or better word would be suffocate.
 
Originally posted by: krylon
Originally posted by: glutenberg
I'm confused as to how he fought the shark for 2 hours when he's free diving with only a snorkel?
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Reading it, it sounds like he knew the spear to the gills would effectively kill the shark but the shark would linger on for hours before finally dieing. He was trying to be humane and kill it quickly. I think it is safe to assume that he went up for air repeatedly during this time.
 
Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
Haven't read the article but AFAIK sharks need to keep moving to breathe. If they stop they cannot breathe, they "drown" or better word would be suffocate.
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Specifically keep moving forward. If the shark is being dragged backward it can't get the water into its mouth to push through, so it was a good theory. Apparently it was quite the resilient shark though.


Originally posted by: TheNinja
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen
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Hah
Yeah reading the article, very well spoken by the guy. He is very respectful of sharks and sounds like a respectable hunter.

I wouldn't want to kill a shark either. But in times of do or die, or do or buddy dies, there is no choice but to take whatever action possible.
And props to him for at least attempting to end the struggle for the shark as fast as humanly possible, when a human is FIGHTING a 12ft Tiger Shark.
Just that thought alone, jesus... frightening. Having weapons is one thing, but like.. getting up close in personal in a lengthy struggle? Fuck that. Tigers once provoked can be ferocious.

Not like a Bull Shark, but I think there more agile than Bulls.
 
Originally posted by: TheNinja
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen
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eh? I dunno, if he had a boat nearby and 2 hours to kill and was clearly taking trips to the surface to breathe then I don't understand why they didn't just bug out and leave poor sharky alone.

 
Plunging a knife in again and again, diver Craig Clasen grapples with a 12ft tiger shark to protect a friend.
For two hours he wrestled with the giant, spearing it seven times, even drowning the beast before eventually finishing it off with a knife.
Mr Clasen was hunting yellow fin tuna with fellow fisherman Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D.J Struntz and film maker Ryan McInnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the encounter took place.


The group were about to leave the deep waters south of the Mississippi River's mouth, when Mr McInnis found himself alone in the company of a tiger shark.
With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded friend, who was being circled by the giant predator.

'I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it would pass us by,' explained 32-year-old Mr Clasen.
'I noticed that the shark was getting tighter and tighter and just kept trying to get a back angle on us and behaving in an aggressive manner.
'The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us so I just went ahead and took the conservative route and put a shaft through its gills.
'Cameron and I have been around sharks for years and we all have a lot of experience with them but this encounter had a different feel to it.
'Down in my core I really felt the shark was there to feed. I didn't want it to come to that.'
Mr Clasen spent nearly two hours wrestling with the giant 12ft shark, spearing it seven

'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen.
'I didn't want it to go on any longer than it had to. I shot the fish like I would do any other fish and worked it up closer and did my best to kill it as humanely as possible.
'I speared it in the gills which I knew would kill it and from that I tried to put a shaft into its brain as quickly as possible.
'I shot it six times in the head with a spear and I wasn't having much luck - it was a slow drawn out process.
'Sharks are so resilient and so tough from millions of years of evolution they are just survivors.
'The best way and quickest way to finish the job and kill the shark and recover it was to get a rope around its tail, drag it from the back of the boat and attempt to drown it.
'In the end we had put a knife its skull once I got lose enough to it and use a long blade knife even after trying to drown it.'

Mr Clasen has been free diving and fishing since an early age. Hailing from Mississippi, he was brought up in a fishing family, and is an expert in all fishing disciplines. Despite his experience, Mr Clasen took no pleasure in disposing of the giant shark.
'This was one of the most remorseful moments I have ever had in all of my years in hunting, gathering and fishing,' explains Mr Clasen.
'Personally I never shoot anything or kill anything that I am not going to eat.
'We saved the tail and the head, cut a giant chunk out of it and ate a piece.
'I wasn't there to hunt the shark, it was a defensive move for me and I would do it again. Unfortunately it had to be done and its not something I was proud of. It was a situation that presented itself to us. This was one of those rare instances where we had to protect ourselves.
'I have so much respect for sharks in general. With the amount of time that we spend out there we are exposed to so many potential risks.'

Spearfishing is a form of fishing that has been popular throughout the world for centuries. Considered to be the most selective way of fishing, the amount of fish taken by spearfishermen accounts for just 0.1 per cent of fishing globally.
Today spearfishermen use effective elastic- or pneumatic-powered spearguns and slings to strike the hunted fish using free-diving, snorkelling or scuba-diving techniques.
Regarded by many as two of the world's best free diving spearfishermen, Mr Clasen and Cameron Kirkconnell have come into contact with thousands of sharks.
Watching from the boat, Mr Kirkconnell is sure Mr Clasen the right decision. 'We had been in the water all day and had caught lots of tuna,' he explained.
'But every dive we do is a shark dive and at certain times of the year, especially in Louisiana, we expect to see between 50-100 sharks from 7-12 ft.
'This encounter was so rare though. This shark might have been part of a feeding frenzy and still fired up and thought this was an easy kill.
'Tiger sharks have no problem eating whole sea turtles, 150lb tuna and even dolphins. It wasn't a split second decision on a whim, Mr Clasen has had hundreds of hours of experience.
'There was no doubt that was what needed to be done.'
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Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Originally posted by: TheNinja
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen
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eh? I dunno, if he had a boat nearby and 2 hours to kill and was clearly taking trips to the surface to breathe then I don't understand why they didn't just bug out and leave poor sharky alone.
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Here's my take as to what happened:

While they were under water, shark became a threat and pursued his friend. He reacts, and shoots the shark in the gills. At this time the shark is basically raging but rather incapable of doing much at that very instant, so they surface for air. But, he's just dealt a potentially fatal blow to the shark, but it's going to be quite some time before the shark actually dies - so he goes back under to try and finish the job so that the shark suffers for as little as possible.
 
Whatever helps them sleep at night.. I'm just not entirely convinced that once the shark was no longer a threat after a single shot to the gills, they absolutely had to spend another 1:59 poking it to death..

I guess I'm not a "hunter" though..
 
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Originally posted by: TheNinja
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen
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eh? I dunno, if he had a boat nearby and 2 hours to kill and was clearly taking trips to the surface to breathe then I don't understand why they didn't just bug out and leave poor sharky alone.
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Are you are retard or is your reading comprehension just terrible?
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Originally posted by: TheNinja
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen
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eh? I dunno, if he had a boat nearby and 2 hours to kill and was clearly taking trips to the surface to breathe then I don't understand why they didn't just bug out and leave poor sharky alone.
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Here's my take as to what happened:

While they were under water, shark became a threat and pursued his friend. He reacts, and shoots the shark in the gills. At this time the shark is basically raging but rather incapable of doing much at that very instant, so they surface for air. But, he's just dealt a potentially fatal blow to the shark, but it's going to be quite some time before the shark actually dies - so he goes back under to try and finish the job so that the shark suffers for as little as possible.
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yea and if you notice, the shark is in the upright position.

when fish are dying sometimes they will get into the upright position. when they are in that position they really can't do much and can hardly move.

im guessing the blow to the gills made the shark eventually start to die a slow death and end up in that position, and then in turn he could try to finish him off.
 
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Whatever helps them sleep at night.. I'm just not entirely convinced that once the shark was no longer a threat after a single shot to the gills, they absolutely had to spend another 1:59 poking it to death..

I guess I'm not a "hunter" though..
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indeed you are not. You don't attack an animal with the intent to kill, and leave once its maimed but not dead. You kill or, or never attack it.

You would leave an animal to suffer its last licks of life instead of ending the pain? Don't ever become a hunter or even harm an animal then if you don't have the mindset to finish the job.
 
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Whatever helps them sleep at night.. I'm just not entirely convinced that once the shark was no longer a threat after a single shot to the gills, they absolutely had to spend another 1:59 poking it to death..

I guess I'm not a "hunter" though..
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indeed you are not. You don't attack an animal with the intent to kill, and leave once its maimed but not dead. You kill or, or never attack it.

You would leave an animal to suffer its last licks of life instead of ending the pain? Don't ever become a hunter or even harm an animal then if you don't have the mindset to finish the job.
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It's just so much.. nothing. I don't see the point. Who's keeping score of the animals you kill instantly vs the ones you kill slowly? I'm trying very hard, but all I come up with is "whatever helps you sleep at night" because ultimately you're doing it for yourself, not for the animals sake.
 
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Whatever helps them sleep at night.. I'm just not entirely convinced that once the shark was no longer a threat after a single shot to the gills, they absolutely had to spend another 1:59 poking it to death..

I guess I'm not a "hunter" though..
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indeed you are not. You don't attack an animal with the intent to kill, and leave once its maimed but not dead. You kill or, or never attack it.

You would leave an animal to suffer its last licks of life instead of ending the pain? Don't ever become a hunter or even harm an animal then if you don't have the mindset to finish the job.
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It's just so much.. nothing. I don't see the point. Who's keeping score of the animals you kill instantly vs the ones you kill slowly? I'm trying very hard, but all I come up with is "whatever helps you sleep at night" because ultimately you're doing it for yourself, not for the animals sake.
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did you read the fucking article?
 
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: mxyzptlk
Whatever helps them sleep at night.. I'm just not entirely convinced that once the shark was no longer a threat after a single shot to the gills, they absolutely had to spend another 1:59 poking it to death..

I guess I'm not a "hunter" though..
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indeed you are not. You don't attack an animal with the intent to kill, and leave once its maimed but not dead. You kill or, or never attack it.

You would leave an animal to suffer its last licks of life instead of ending the pain? Don't ever become a hunter or even harm an animal then if you don't have the mindset to finish the job.
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It's just so much.. nothing. I don't see the point. Who's keeping score of the animals you kill instantly vs the ones you kill slowly? I'm trying very hard, but all I come up with is "whatever helps you sleep at night" because ultimately you're doing it for yourself, not for the animals sake.
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Of course you do it for yourself. What planet are you from? If it is me V any animal, I am going to do my best to make sure I come out on top.

Do you live in some suburban bubble where life is just rainbows and unicorns?
 
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