Fishermen on a boat out of Huntington Beach, Calif., caught a
potentially world record-breaking mako shark that weighed 1,323.5
pounds.
By Brandon Lowrey, NBCLosAngeles
Anglers on a
boat out of Huntington Beach, Calif., caught a potentially world
record-breaking mako shark that weighed 1,323.5 pounds Tuesday morning.
The
massive shark took two and a half hours to reel in and jumped out of
the water five times, going 20 to 25 feet into the air as an angler from
Mesquite, Texas fought it.
"It was the scariest thing I've ever
witnessed in my life," said a grinning Jason Johnston, who reeled in the
shark. "This thing was a beast."
The shark measured 144 inches.
"It's
unreal," Johnston said. "This thing is definitely a killing machine.
... Any wrong step I could have went out of the boat and gone to the
bottom of the ocean."
The catch was reportedly caught on tape by videographers filming for a reality television show about hunting.
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