A great white shark took a bite out of the outboards on a SeaVee 34 in the Gulf of Mexico about 65 miles southwest of Tampa last week. The shark also tried to bite the boat itself.
“It was breathtaking,” Erika Almond told FOX 13 in Tampa. “It came right up and took a chunk out of one of our motors.” She said the shark, about 14- to 16-feet long, approached the boat cautiously, looking for something to eat, before it started biting into the motors and the hull. “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” she said.
Almond has spent thousands of hours fishing in the gulf, on her SeaVee named Offshore Therapy. She said she often sees sharks when she’s fishing and chumming, but not a great white.
She was with four friends and Captain Tyler Levesque at the time, catching amberjack in about 200 feet of water, when the shark approached the boat, chasing the bait. The shark made several passes, she said, and “at one point he even rolled over like he wanted us to rub his belly.”
Then Levesque reached out to push it away. Read more:
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