Tommy Sharks

Tommy Sharks

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Swimming amongst the dolphins or amongst the sharks. Member of our sportsman's spotlight team, Tommy Allen, was vacationing in Hawaii and, while there, went skin diving and spearfishing and managed to get enough fish that he had several barbecues and fed the family. All of that said, I know he's an experienced outdoorsman but I did have a question that I thought was important. "Let me ask you this Are you going to be honest with me. I spent too much time watching shark week. Any worries about sharks out there.

Well it's a great great question. So as I'm out there spear fishing not even the quarter mile away, we get out the water and go to the next beach and they had that little reef area off the beach all closed down by. So I think it was the Hawaiian Fish Wildlife guys. And we asked. I said what's the deal. What's the deal here. You know. They said oh there's a 15 foot tiger shark spotted right out here with two other tiger sharks. And what it was is they're coming in because the the black tip sharks were having the babies right there and they come in and try and get the babies. And so they basically had everyone get out of the water, you were not to be in the water at all for the rest of the week. So that was not more than a quarter mile probably, not more than a few yards around the corner from where I was fishing with blood in the water and everything else. And of course I cut my own leg on coral also. And so you never know what's in the water out there with you.

Wow what excitement. Well good for you can't say that I'd have the same or courage.

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