2-22 SS Rhett 3

 Picking up from yesterday, fishing charter Capt. Rhett Morris is  scuba diving at the bottom of a salt water inlet and is gravely threatened by a massive bull shark. The shark has been snapping its jaws within inches of Rhett’s face and appears ready for a full attack.  “I signal my friend who was not very far away that he better come to my position so that we could take up a good defensive posture. He gets near me on the bottom and this shark starts darting back and forth with its  pectoral fins  drawn down which is something that a shark does when it is going to get very aggressive. That is when you know you are in big trouble. Luckily we were up against large rocks and we knew we were fairly safe, at least for the minute, because we had the steel rods and we could keep her off of us and hopefully not get attacked. The tail was about 3 ½ feet tall and as you would see the tail disappear, the face would be right where the tail just was. My heart was beating so hard that I could see my heart beat in my vision. We are sucking down a air like crazy, running out of air, and all of a sudden the shark decides to decrease its level of aggression. I thought maybe we could get to the top of the water and get out of this bad situation. As we get up, just below the surface, the shark is circling us slowly. Just as we hit the top of the water, she went straight down. In my mind, I took that as a very bad sign because typically when a large shark wants to attack something near the surface, it will go straight down so it can get a good attack position coming from the bottom up.