Little fear of big shark
Crazy catch & drag
It’s a death-defying take on Shark Tales.
Wild video footage shows a brave fisherman calmly pulling a large shark by the tail to put him back into the water in Martha’s Vineyard.
“Ya, sooooooo this happened yesterday! 15 feet from where we were sitting,” Travers Peterson wrote alongside his 12-second clip, calling his unidentified subject “savage.”
The fisherman, wearing red shorts and a pink shirt, casually pulls the beast from the beach back to the sea after catching it on Friday, even though it looked as long as he is tall.
He appears completely unconcerned — even as the shark twisted and repeatedly opened its mouth.
Proving just how nonchalant he was, the fisherman then pauses to wash his hands in the water rather than running straight out as the shark swam off — potentially still just inches away.
“This style of fishing separates the men from the boys!” Peterson joked alongside his video, which by Sunday had been viewed more than 3,000 times on Facebook.
Peterson said he and his friend Lee Pasqualucci watched the fisherman take about 40 minutes to reel in the shark after catching it on the Massachusetts island’s Wasque beach — but they didn’t expect it to be so big.
“I was expecting something small, like a 2-foot or maybe 3-foot dog shark,” Pasqualucci told the Boston Globe.
“What he pulled out was over 150 pounds and 6 feet tall, at least that’s what it looked to me — it was a solid size. It was like the size of the guy.”
Pasqualucci said the fisherman cut the hook out of the shark, dragged him back into the water and “washed his hands off like it was just another day.”
“I said, ‘Congratulations.’ He had an ear-to-ear smile and kind of shook it off,” Pasqualucci said.