2-21 SS Rhett 2

  Picking up the story from yesterday, Capt. Rhett Morris was scuba diving off the coast of Punta Gorda, Florida. He was looking for schools of fish so that he could bring his clients to the exact spot of their habitat. In his words, all of a sudden he got the heebie-jeebies, turned around and guess what? “The shocking realization hits me like a time of bricks that I am being approached by the most dangerous shark in the world seas which is a bull shark probably 8 to 9 feet long, somewhere between 450 and 550 pounds. When a shark encounters something and doesn’t know what it is it tries a test bite to see if it is a food source. Looking at the difference in size between the shark and me I definitely fit into the food source category.  I carry with me a steel rod with a T welded onto the back and it is sharp in the front. It is there to fend off a shark if I should run into one. As the shark gets close to me I realize that I am going to have to use it. So I jabbed this thing in the face just above the jaw and just below the eye and as I make contact with the face of the shark, the pressure on the sharks face triggers a reaction bite and as the shark slammed its mouth open and closed right in front of my face. when the jaws shut, I felt the percussion of the jaws slamming back together, I felt the percussion in my chest. It was like somebody was opening and then slamming a car door shut. It was unbelievable, the strength of this creature’s jaws.