Porbeagle bites camera in Maine

[ChumSlickRick]

Saw this today on Barstoolsports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66S-m...layer_embedded

PORTLAND — A scuba diver who came face-to-teeth with a shark used a camera to fend off the animal when it came at him with its teeth bared – and he has the frightening video to prove it.Scott MacNichol, 30, was shaken up but uninjured after a porbeagle shark apparently mistook his camera equipment for food Saturday while diving near Eastport, off the eastern tip of Maine. He estimated the shark was 8 feet long and weighed about 300 pounds. MacNichol saw the shark swimming above him while he was filming the ocean floor under empty salmon pens as part of an environmental assessment for Cooke Aquaculture Inc. The animal then came at him, jabbing at the camera with its snout. In the video, its sharp teeth fill the frame before it swims off. “He took a couple of bites at the camera. When he did that I was pretty much petrified,” MacNichol said Wednesday. “If you watch the video, you can hear me screaming underwater.” The shark was probably drawn to MacNichol from the camera’s light, batteries and silver casing, said Chris Heinig, owner of MER Assessment Corp., who was on the dive boat on the surface when the shark lunged at MacNichol. “I think it came up and bumped the camera to see what it was,” Heinig said. “But I honestly don’t think the shark attacked Scott.”

[scbaseth]

After watching the video my friends and I organized a hunting party in order to rid the area of this man eating Leviathan. The waters are once again safe.... J/K, but seriously, I dive a lot in the area and that would scare the life out of me.

[heynow]

looks like you live the life there scbaseth, Always wondered about GOM sharking one day i will get to try. Wouldnt mind watching the balloons with crew like that

[Verbal]

thats one lucky pair of grundens!

[Fathom40]

Saw this today on Barstoolsports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66S-m...layer_embedded

PORTLAND — A scuba diver who came face-to-teeth with a shark used a camera to fend off the animal when it came at him with its teeth bared – and he has the frightening video to prove it.Scott MacNichol, 30, was shaken up but uninjured after a porbeagle shark apparently mistook his camera equipment for food Saturday while diving near Eastport, off the eastern tip of Maine. He estimated the shark was 8 feet long and weighed about 300 pounds. MacNichol saw the shark swimming above him while he was filming the ocean floor under empty salmon pens as part of an environmental assessment for Cooke Aquaculture Inc. The animal then came at him, jabbing at the camera with its snout. In the video, its sharp teeth fill the frame before it swims off. “He took a couple of bites at the camera. When he did that I was pretty much petrified,” MacNichol said Wednesday. “If you watch the video, you can hear me screaming underwater.” The shark was probably drawn to MacNichol from the camera’s light, batteries and silver casing, said Chris Heinig, owner of MER Assessment Corp., who was on the dive boat on the surface when the shark lunged at MacNichol. “I think it came up and bumped the camera to see what it was,” Heinig said. “But I honestly don’t think the shark attacked Scott.”

ChumSlickRick,

Great feed. Where do you dock in Stonington? I also live in Stonington.

Fathom40

[cap'n nasty]

Do you need a permit for porbeagles? Or is it included in a tuna permit?

[ChumSlickRick]

ChumSlickRick,

Great feed. Where do you dock in Stonington? I also live in Stonington.

Fathom40

It's my buddies boat, he keeps it at Dodson. Its the blue hulled Duffy 35' "Yankee". Where you out of?

[Loafn-II]

Its a fun boat to fish on...and they are my grundens to boot!

[tunatamer73]

After watching the video my friends and I organized a hunting party in order to rid the area of this man eating Leviathan. The waters are once again safe.... J/K, but seriously, I dive a lot in the area and that would scare the life out of me.

Damn it's hard to see the shark in that picture...

[gmoney]

I dont see a shark.....


on a more serious note, what kind of boat is that picture taken on, cant tell if its a downeaster or a a sportfish