Nurse shark bites stomach - Forum member?

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http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/2017/09/27/shark-latches-onto-divers-belly-during-dive-off-florida-coast-thought-would-drown.html

I think this is a Clay county guy.

BallaCoiPersici

Ouch !
If he was herassing the shark nothing so wrong.
And what lucky guy: few inches lower it would been worst :grin

Tarponator

I always thought nurse sharks were harmless. Who knew?

Redaction

Same thing happened to a friend of mine many years ago in Big Pine Key. It was back when it was still legal to harvest lobster on man made habitats. He was tickling a lobster out from under a washing machine or car hood, one of the two. A nurse shark about the same size as the one in the video charged him and clamped on to hi sinner thigh. Had to cut the sharks head off to make it let go.

About five years ago I was spear fishing near Content Key. I shot a nice hog fish while snorkeling in about 10' of water. I was removing the spear and I made the comment to myself "there sure is a lot of blood coming out of this thing". I looked up at that time and a 4' nurse shark was making beeline towards me. I hit it in the snout with the but of my guy, he made a circle and came right back. He did it three times. A buddy swam over and the shark went at him. We had to get in the boat and the freaking shark was doing laps around the boat...he didn't get my fish though.

Baits Out

When I was much younger and dumber and in high school in Lauderdale, and when free diving on the second reef south of the port we would grab their tail when they were "sleeping" on the bottom.

Fortunately they were all shocked and quickly swam away and didn't turn around.

tankard

My idiot friend had one deep-hooked when snapper fishing in the Keys.

He didn't wait for the pliers, as I was unhooking a snapper. Whoops. The thing clamped on his thumb and wouldn't let go.

He was howling, and we were close enough to a pub on the water that we had spectators. It was hilarious.

Oh, and Fish Haid....tell me again how nurse sharks have razor-sharp teeth? Do you see any evidence of that in this documentation?

Fish Haid

tankard wrote: »

Oh, and Fish Haid....tell me again how nurse sharks have razor-sharp teeth? Do you see any evidence of that in this documentation?

Somebody tell Tankard that nurse sharks have teeth - small but sharp - and that he still owes me $20 plus 10 year's interest.

tankard

I never said they didn't have teeth, I said they didn't have razor-sharp teeth.

Because they don't. Chris' thumb wasn't cut at all, barely abraded. Like they guy's belly.

Resinhead

That nurse shark is the perfect size to make a sandwich.

I was snorkeling with a big bag of lobster tails off Joulters and had about a 6-footer really wanting my tails. I had to stick him in the nose about 5 times with my pole spear before he took off. When they're fired up they're tough.

mplspug

Baits Out wrote: »

When I was much younger and dumber and in high school in Lauderdale, and when free diving on the second reef south of the port we would grab their tail when they were "sleeping" on the bottom.

Fortunately they were all shocked and quickly swam away and didn't turn around.

That's not nice. They were obviously trying to end their miserable lives because as we all know, sharks have to keep moving or they will drown. :Bike

Tarpon65

There is no way that's a forum member as all posters here have 5% body fat and 6 pack abs.

tankard

Tarpon65 wrote: »

There is no way that's a forum member as all posters here have 5% body fat and 6 pack abs.

Lol!

And yeah those suckers can be pushy as hell when they decide they want what you have.

mplspug

Speak for your selves. I have 6 pack and.

I just keep them in a well insulated cooler.

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cadman

mplspug wrote: »

That's not nice. They were obviously trying to end their miserable lives because as we all know, sharks have to keep moving or they will drown. :Bike

I thought that was Great whites?

mplspug

cadman wrote: »

I thought that was Great whites?

Lol, I don't know. It's one of those things that gets passed around and you don't know what to believe.

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