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Sharkies hunting trip

*Note this story is based on a REAL shark attack that took place in the 70's off the eastern sea coast. The names of the victims have been changed to protect the DIGESTED.


Jim and his diving partner Jack stopped their small 15-foot boat 5 miles off the coastline. It was a clear warm summer's day and the water under their boat teemed with sea life. The two men helped each other into their diving gear and grabbed their spears and jumped into the water. The colorful tropical fish darted all around the two human fishermen. They fed the small fish off scraps of bait that they had brought into the water This place as teaming with marine life of all kinds, a perfect place for two hunters to gain all the trophies they needed. Once the men had gained the trust of the tropical fish, they went to work. One man would feed and attract the fish while the other one would throw the pointed spear, and make the kills. Soon the area was filled with the bodies of dead and dying fish; the water surface soon became blood stained. The two men were having such a lovely time collecting their kills, that they became careless. In there greed to kill They seemed to forget that there are other larger sea a creature in the area. Sea creatures that consider the smell of blood in the water an open invite to dinner!

Off in the distance one such sea creature picked up the faint smell of blood. He turned his massive 25-foot gray and white body to the shoreline. His large pectoral fins guided him closer to where the smell was coming from. The blood in the water pulled the large white shark closer to where the two divers were hunting. Every muscle in his powerful body worked like clockwork; a well-oiled machine was he. A perfect predator made for hunting and eating. In no time at all he approached the hunting grounds looking for the source of the blood.

Jack had collected all the fish he could hold on his dive belt, he gave the surface sign to his dive partner Jim, and begun the 40-foot climb back to the surface of the water. Jim gave his partner a hand signal saying he would be up to join his partner in about 5 minutes.

Jack arrived at the boat ladder and hosted his body out the water and into the boat. He unloaded his dive belt and placed the dead fish into the boat ice-box. He looked over the deck at the clear blue water and waited for his partner to come back.

Under the water Jim continued to feed the fish, he was relaxed and at ease here in the water. He felt safe and smiled as the little fish darted about his body eating the scraps of food. Jim opened his bag of bait and felt around for some more scarps of food for his fishy buddies. He took out one last small chunk of bait and got ready to give it to the hungry fish. But something was wrong, he found himself all alone in the water all of the little hungry fish, had all left. Something had scared them off. Jim began to feel a bit uneasy the lack of sea life in this area. This might have meant something was wrong, he looked at his air gage and knew it was time to go back to his surface world. He begun his assent to the surface.

Below him in the blood filled murky water The shark moved in on his target, the shark's large 4-foot wide jaws opened at the last second and took the divers feet and legs in a large gulp. The massive jaws shut on the divers waist. In less than a fraction of a second the humans lower body was completely engulfed in the mouth of the shark.

Jim was in shear panic now as he felt a crushing blow to his waist, his body was shaken back and forth, like he was a rag doll. The large teeth of the shark cut through his air tank lines and straps. The air tank sank to the bottom of the ocean, bubbles floating up from the cut lines. Jim's head and torso broke the surface of the water; he was helpless as the shark continued to assault his body, working to swallow the prey whole to feed his need.

Jim let out one yell to his buddy Jack who waited on the boat. Jack turned quickly as he heard the word S-H-A-R-K and watched his buddy yanked back under waters surface. He saw the gray tail of the shark flip into the air and they disappear with his buddy caught in its jaws. The shocked Jack quickly got back into his gear and jumped into the water, he looked all around for the killer shark and his buddy. The water was now cloudy and filled with blood it was hard to see much more than 10 feet any direction. Jack dove down deeper. He knew sharks attacked from the surface and he thought he had a better chance in deeper water. As he swam to the sandy bottom of this once lush lagoon
Something caught his eyes. The sand on the bottom was being kicked up in a large cloud. Could this be his buddy, maybe he had escaped the fish and was trying to return to the surface. As Jack approached the underwater sand cloud he could make out the back section of the shark. 'MY GOD ITS HUGH! ' He thought, at least 20 feet maybe bigger.
His eyes went wide with terror as the head of the shark emerged from the sand cloud.
In the shark's jaws was the body of his dive partner. The shark has swallowed his buddy up to his chest now. Jim's mask was off his face and his arms loose at his sides. The large shark was in the process of swallowing his buddy whole. Jack went for his spear, but in his haste to get back into the water he had forgotten it. Jack watched helpless as the large shark tossed its massive head back opened its jaws and pulled Jim into the cave like mouth of the fish. Jim's arms were the last things to be sucked into the shark's jaws. Jack winced in horror as he thought he saw Jim's hands ball a fist, was it possible he was still alive The shark took a few more quick gulps and pulled the meal down into its belly. The white under belly of the shark pushed outwards from the weight of the meal. Having eaten its fill the shark swam off and back into the sea.

Jack returned to the boat, the terrible image of the shark eating his buddy whole forever etched in his mind. His shaking hand picked up the boat radio and called in the attack to the coast guard. A few minutes later a coast guard cutter arrived; they found Jack on the deck of the boat sobbing and in shock. He told them of the terrible tale and was taken away to the local hospital. The coast guard sent divers in the waters all around the cove and launched a 6 hour search. All they found was a set of air tanks still blowing bubbles to the surface.