Chip Michalove, a charter fishing captain from Hilton Head, South Carolina, went out looking for great white sharks recently. He found more than he bargained for.
At first, Michalove hooked a 10-foot great white, but it got away. He was going to call it a day, when he saw a giant 16-foot, 3,0000-pound great white swimming under his boat. With only one other person on board (two of his regular crewmen had taken the day off), Michalove called a nearby boat for help.
The reinforced crew hooked the great white and brought it near the boat, as you can see on this video. “Holy ….!” one exclaimed, when he saw the monster. They brought it close enough to tag and release it. “After we started fighting this thing we kind of realized that it was just much,” Michalove told station WSAV.
Michalove works with the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy on Cape Cod to help with great white research. He says the general shark population is decreasing, but not the number of great whites. If he finds any more like this, he’ll need a bigger boat.
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