According to Newsweek, Sammy Hitzke and his partner anglers laid bait at a depth of roughly 1,500 feet in the hopes of hooking a swordfish. “We believed it was either an extremely huge one or foul hooked,” He went on to say that the shark they hooked felt like a swordfish at first.
The guys fought the shark all day, finally obtaining a glimpse of their catch after 4.5 hours. “As every fisherman knows, you can’t just give up in the middle of a fight, especially when it’s for the fish of a lifetime!”
When they finally hauled their catch close to the boat, they discovered they had been reeling in a large shark: “We were both a little bit shocked,” Hitzke recalled. “This was our first contact with a thresher shark because neither of us had ever seen one before. The fact that it had been half-eaten was definitely eye-opening as well. The remnants weighed approximately at around 100kg [220lb].”
Hitzke continued, “Because Shaun isn’t particularly strong, it was tough to move the shark aboard the boat, so I had to lift the majority of it alone. There was a time when I was convinced we wouldn’t be able to get it in at all.”
Several huge marine predators live off the coast of Australia, including great white sharks, bull sharks, tiger sharks, and giant squid. In March, Tony Walker, an Australian fisheries biologist, was operating in the Coral Sea off the coast of Australia when he came across three massive fish with odd bite marks. He believes the fish was attacked by a massive squid.
The giant squid has huge suckers on their limbs that they utilize to attract prey to their beaks, where they slice the flesh into bite-sized pieces. Walker stated he had always suspected the presence of enormous squid in the area but had never seen one.
The majority of the shark’s torso had been devoured, with only the head, fins, and tail surviving in Hitzke’s film of the catch. “I believe it was around three hours into the struggle when the mysterious attacker started eating it,” he claimed. “When we hooked it, it was clearly alive. During the conflict, it was consumed.”
Source: news week