Scary Shark: Real or Not, Part 18 (The Answer)

Posted Sep 9th 2006 10:16AM by Willy Volk
Filed under: Photography, Flora & Fauna, Stories, Pacific, Real or Not?

Last week, we posted this image of a jumping/flying shark and solicited your thoughts on its authenticity:

Make shark

Just over half of the more than 1200 votes we received claimed the image was real. If you voted this way, you're right: the image is 100% real. I found it in a slideshow on Field & Stream.

Brendan Mason, a software developer from Seattle, caught this enormous mako -- estimated to be 11 feet long and over 600 pounds -- off San Diego. Attracted to some chum, the mako gnawed on both the boat and its motor. Mako sharks have been known to leap over, and even into small boats, when hooked. However, before that happened, Mason released the huge fish. Consequently, the shark -- probably a female -- is swimming freely today.

Reader Comments

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1. WOW!!!! Really it oreginal??? how did you succeed to do such photo???? I delight in you

Posted at 1:16PM on Sep 10th 2006 by Ban

2. Wow, what a slide show,(on the Field & Stream website). It must have been amazing fighting a Mako shark with a flyrod! Im glad he released the shark instead of mounting it on a wall.

Posted at 11:01PM on Sep 10th 2006 by TOBIN ALDER

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