A group of fishermen bit off a bit more than they could chew when a massive mako shark jumped onboard a fishing vessel.
The fishermen where sailing on the ‘Lady Anne,’ a 38-foot charter vessel operating by Sea Ventures Charters out of Monhegan, Maine in August.
In a video taken by an onlooker, a group of fishermen watch as a hooked mako shark leaps in and out of the water behind the boat.
But in a few seconds, the shark catches up with the boat and leaps directly onto the deck.
The fishermen scramble up a ladder as the 7-foot shark flails around on the ship.
‘A once-in-a-lifetime experience!’ Sea Ventures Charters wrote in a post on Facebook. ‘Thankfully, no one on board was injured!’
‘Astonishingly, the mako was measured, tagged, nudged toward the transom door and released,’ Sea Ventures Charters said.
The ‘Lady Anne’ frequently takes fishermen out for shark-tagging, a process that involves catching and releasing the creatures to collect scientific data.
From mid-July through August, the ‘Lady Anne’ ferries out fishermen, who chum for the predators then hook them with stand-up rods.
The sharks are then brought onboard, where they are measured, tagged, and photographed. The data is sent to the National Marine Fisheries Apex Predator Tagging Program.
Earlier that day, fishermen on the boat caught and tagged two ‘beautiful’ blue sharks, they said.
Earlier this summer, another shark terrified beachgoers at Rockaway Beach in New York City as it leaped out of the water in a similar fashion. Shark activity shut down the NYC beach that same week.
Shark sightings and attacks have increased this year up and down the east coast. Some scientists believe it may have to do with a marine heatwave, which draws more bait fish closer to the coast.
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