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    makes me sick to see the so called fishermen killing them for their fins and dumping them back in to drown they would help the medical research as they are immune from any type of cancer but that's us human animals all over no one knows how long they live for either? jp

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    the ist shark i ever caught was on the cragmmoor ..i was told to take a meat hook down below and get a barbs put in it then atach some wire folloewed by a heaving line with a box float ana chunk of meat onthe hook....i thught i was being wound up ..but got the biggest suprise of my life when seeing a large shadowy figure some meters below it came up slowly and did not turn on its back but circled and the just struck it was in my memory nowabout 9 or 10 ft ..there was no one else about and i was flapping but had the sense to put a couple of turns round a bit .....the bloody thing was thrahing and juping an old ab got anoyher heaving line and putting a running bowline in over my line dropped and the secured it ..so we had it at both ends ...we heaved it aboard with the help of others and it was the ist time i saw the true butchery of a live creature ...a fire axe was used ....and many a stab with knives.......i recall the sandpaper effect brushing one way and the softness like a womems breast the other ....its belly of course was cut open and out poped 7 or 8 mini sharks abouta foot or so long.......we had shark steaks but i cannot recall what they tasted like they must have been ok or i would have remembered.....it was a learning curve and certainly not the last shark caught sadly i did not have a picture of it ....cappy

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    Here is me with a shark we caught off West Africa when we broke down for a few days on a Skin Boat.

    I would not catch or kill any others now, or even insects and animals.,I have had my life saved so many times that I appreciate it so much so I cannot put any other creature through the same.
    Also Sharks are an endangered species. The death toll of sharks is in the millions each year/
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    #13, Ahh Capt' a sight for sore eyes....and you're not bad either

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    Marian, you`ll be fancying me soon,
    That photo was 61 years ago when I was 21. and all the girls used to scream after me. If only I could turn back the clock,
    Cheers
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    now then behave yourselves you two? jp

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    did anyone ever read the book on I think the uses Indianapolis and her crew in the water for 4 days sharks all around after the bomb dropped? jp

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    Hi All
    Might have posted these before, this was caught in the Indian ocean while we drifted for six days, there were literally hundreds swimming around the ship, probably waiting for the gash bucket to be tossed overboard, but as Brian says there is no way i would do this these days, sharks have their place in the sea, we should respect that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JOHN PRUDEN View Post
    did anyone ever read the book on I think the uses Indianapolis and her crew in the water for 4 days sharks all around after the bomb dropped? jp
    ...that is one good read john ......the attacking of the sharks ...and the guys holding hands in a circle only to be torn out by the sharks ...and the screaming going on day and night ......more than a nightmare situation ......regards cappy

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    I have the book
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