The fuel for my fascination started at a young age and stemmed from multiple sources including:
The famous words of Captain Quinn aboard the ORCA in Jaws, “Sharks with their grey ghostly eyes…”
World renowned and Great White word record holder Captain Frank Mundus’s book “Sportfishing for Sharks,” that I read from cover to cover by the age of ten
The set of Sand Tiger Shark jaws that set upon my parents mantle from a shark my dad caught before I was born
The monster shark weigh ins I attended as a child with my father at the City Marina,
The120-pound Sandbar Shark that I caught on 20-pound tackle at age 14 with just two buddies Derek Eager and Danny Mikell on board.
Sharks have fascinated me from an early age, and to this day I still stay glued to the TV during the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week”
Year before last two friends of mine were doing some winter bottom fishing offshore of Charleston out of a 25-foot Boston Whaler. While fishing at the 180-foot ledge they encountered what they described as the, “biggest and scariest shark they had ever seen.” A Great White had surfaced next to their boat evidently attracted by the large grouper they were catching. The shark was almost the same length as the boat and just as wide as the twin motors mounted on the back. The shark circled the boat, showing its dorsal fin, went under and then popped up no more than a foot off the transom. The two anglers who have over 50-years combined experience diving and fishing offshore of Charleston were not only amazed, but were extremely terrified. When the shark came up behind the transom the dorsal fin was said to be at eye level, and the guys said the shark could have easily torn off and eaten one of the 150-horse power motors. Upon returning to shore the experienced anglers reporting the encounter to South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. In less than two weeks DNR officials contacted the anglers for a better description of the shark. The anglers provided