Great white shark bites boat in Gulf waters off Tampa Bay
TAMPA, Fla. - Erika Almond has spent thousands of hours fishing the waters of Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico in her 34-foot SeaVee named "Offshore Therapy." She's caught all sorts of near record-sized fish and even swam with a whale shark -- but her most recent expedition might have topped them all.
"It was breathtaking. It came right up and took a chunk out of one of our motors," she said, telling the tale of a great white shark that approached their boat Friday curiously -- and apparently hungry.
"It's not unusual, we expect sharks when you're fishing and chumming like that but what made this unique was it was about a 14- to 16-foot great white shark. We couldn't believe what we were seeing."
Almond and four other friends were with Captain Tyler Levesque in her boat about 65 miles south-southwest of Tampa Bay in roughly 200 feet of water and catching amberjack when the shark approached their boat chasing their bait, even biting the boat and motors several times.
It made several passes enabling Captain Levesque to even touch the shark, pushing it away from the boat as it swam by.
"At one point he even rolled over like he wanted us to rub his belly," Almond told FOX 13 News.
The great white shark is the largest predatory fish in the world, with males reaching 11 to 13 feet and females reaching 19 to 21 feet in length. And a 15-foot great white can weigh upwards of 2,000 pounds.
While known to be in the gulf, sightings are actually quite rare, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The great white shark is the largest predatory fish in the world, with males reaching 11 to 13 feet and females reaching 19 to 21 feet in length. And a 15-foot great white can weigh upwards of 2,000 pounds.
While known to be in the gulf, sightings are actually quite rare, according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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