The lure of sharks - A Fascination for Fish: Adventures of an Underwater Pioneer - page 107

A blue shark takes the bait and is quickly hauled on board by John
Hart ( right ) and the author. (Photo © 1999 Sea World, Inc. All
rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.)
the baited, barbless hook attached to a short wire leader. The shark
quickly took the bait, and I instantly realized, as it nearly pulled me
overboard, that this was no blue shark but most likely a much stronger
mako. After finally getting it alongside our boat, Bill and I had an aw-
ful time lifting the heavy and uncooperative shark into the boat. Once
it was lying upside down in the transport box, with the mouthpiece in
place and the oxygen pump running, we took o¤ for Sea World. I no-
ticed that this particular shark repeatedly bit down on the mouthpiece,
something I hadn't seen with the sharks we'd practiced with.
Hoisting the “shark co‹n” o¤ the boat and driving it the hundred
yards to the waiting shark tank, we released the shark and it swam vig-
orously o¤. The transport method seemed to have worked fine. The
shark looked good as it cruised around the fifty-foot tank.