Anyone lose a speargun and an arm in the past few months?

Padillac

A friend of mine works for the sea turtle patrol on the beaches around Titusville, riding up and down the beach on a 4-wheeler. Recently he found a speargun that was washed ashore with some barnicles on it, so of course he took it home and cleaned it up a little. Then the other night I came over to look at it, and noticed that there were some tooth marks in it from a seriously big shark. The bite marks look like the shark bit from around butt of the gun, all the way to about 10 inches up (around the front of the handle). It looks like the shark took one big chomp, and decided he didn't like it. But that one bite has teeth marks that are quite deep, and at least one of the bite holes still had the tip of one of the teeth still in it (the small white thing on my finger tip in the pic).

So basically I'm wondering if yall know of anyone that may have been recently bitten by a shark, or had an extremely close call and lost their speargun. I'm thinking it had to be at least a month ago because it had those barnacles that you might find on an old piece of floating debris. Either that or I hear tiger sharks will try to eat anything from license plates to anchors, so maybe someone lost the gun and a curious shark came by to give it a taste... What are yall's thoughts about it?


Sorry the pics aren't great..

jumboshrimp

Wild, I'm sure there is a story behind that but but you may never find out :shrug

ProFISHent

My guess is someone lost the gun and a shark bit the gun while it was floating to see what it was. Is there a shaft in the gun? If not the owner likely lost it thinking it would float so they lay it down thinking it will
Lay on the bottom with them but it just floats away.

Just a guess. Cool story. Ashame that team looks really damage those are super high dollar guns. Depending on the size and model (looks like a rear handle).

paddleharder

a pilot friend of my was bitten on the hand while spear fishing but from what he told me he was down in the islands I will ask him if he lost the gun. He had to get several stitches in his had and was doing instructor duties until his hand healed to where he could fly again. I'll ask him about the gun

FloridaFlatsMaster

thats crazy!

Padillac

@ PROFISHENT- Yeah the spear was actually missing, so that could be the case.
@ PADDLEHARDER- Yeah man, just let me know. Would be pretty insane if it was actually his!

Flyguy1

Hahahaa PM sent!

paddleharder

may take a while but I will definetly ask him when he flys in again what a story

paddleharder

Well I talked to my pilot friend yesterday and it turns out it was not his, he was using a Hawian Sling when he was bitten.

captryan5878

Kinda ironic, but I lost a spear gun in titusville waters near the railroad bridge almost a year ago, but it was a diffrent brand.

T Howard

May have had a stringer in the hole on the back. Better on the gun then on the body.