12-Year-Old Boy Reels In Great White Shark
There’s a twelve-year-old boy in Florida who has now moved to the upper echelon of “The People I Hate” list. Let me explain. I have one and only one deep sea fishing story. When I was a sophomore in college, Spring Break was spent off the coast of Miami in a house on stilts in the middle of Key Biscayne. A fraternity brother’s uncle owned the place and gave four of us free reign and use of a boat for a week. It was AWESOME. As a surprise toward the end of the week, the uncle paid for all of us to go on a deep-sea fishing trip. I am not, and have never been a big fishing guy, but how many times do you have the chance to do this kind of thing? And, it was free, so I was all in.
We were having a great day hauling in enough tuna and mahi to feed a small country for weeks. And then, we hooked it. Twelve feet long and not happy to be at the end of our hook was a hammerhead shark. It was on. We did battle with this monster for four hours. As the shark got closer and closer to the boat, our fantasy of having this thing stuffed and mounted on the wall of the frat house (with our picture next to it, of course) also got closer and closer. We were so close. As the shark, literally got next to the boat, it seemed to stop fighting, smile, leap from the water, and bite through our line. The flow of curse words that filled the air was second only to the flow of the afternoon tide in ferocity.
Which now gives you the background on why I can’t stand Campbell Keenan.
You gotta be kidding me?! Four grown college students couldn’t handle one hammerhead shark and this kid reels in an eleven foot great white shark? He gets to brag the he literally caught “Jaws?!” Not only that, but we fought FOR HOURS with that hammerhead. Campbell reeled in his shark off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale in 45 minutes? I do like that he released the shark though. As much as I would have loved to have had our shark on the wall, we would have had to have survived the trip in with that thing in the boat. And as far has his shark goes, can you imagine the perils of trying to subdue a great white? No thank you.
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Full Map of Shark Attacks
Since 1900, according to SharkAttackData.com, there have been 1,636 unprovoked shark attacks, and Florida (828) accounts for slightly more than half. Hawaii follows with 230 attacks, and California is third at 187. The Carolinas round out the top five.
