15-Foot Tiger Shark Gets Mouthful Of Boat

A massive, hooked and tied female tiger shark attacked an inflatable boat Saturday during shark-tagging operations off this remote reef.

No one was injured, and the rigid-hulled inflatable was damaged but not disabled.

The shark, measured by marine biologists at 15 feet long, had been hooked on a research longline. Biologists under the guidance of shark researcher Carl Meyer of the University of Hawai’i’s Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology had hauled the huge animal alongside the 25-foot boat and tied a loop around its tail to help control it.

With a 3 1/2-inch hook still in its mouth, the animal twisted its body 90 degrees, opened its great jaw and bit down repeatedly on the boat’s black rubrail and orange fabric floatation chamber. Read Full Story

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