The shark from Jaws was supposed to be 25 feet long, so technically this tiger shark is smaller…but holy hell look at this thing! It’s girthy as fuck! You could literally be swimmin’ around right next to this dude and he would not give a fuck about you because to him, eating you would basically be like licking some potato chip crumbs off the floor. According to Daily Mail,
A gigantic six-metre tiger shark’s corpse has had its jaw stripped out to be kept as a trophy after it was hauled onto a fishing boat off the Australian coast over the weekend.
Geoff Brooks posted two images of the six metre apex predator to Facebook on Tuesday, claiming that the tiger shark was ‘caught off 7 Mile Beach’ near Lennox Head, on the northern New South Wales coast, at some stage last week…
While the Northern Star have reported that a fisherman named Matthew came forward to confirm that it was him that pulled the massive shark out of the water off the Tweed Coast ‘a while ago’, even taking the jaws as a souvenir.
‘I was the one that took that photo and I was the one that caught that fish,’ he said.
Matthew, who has not been formally identified, said he caught the shark 14 miles off Tweed Heads about three weeks ago. He told the newspaper that he had set his eyes on a smaller shark, a six-foot long hammerhead, when the huge tiger shark appeared – and ate it.(via)
While many have claimed that the photos are fake due to conflicting reports stating that the shark’s body has either been shipped off to fish markets or handed over to authorities with the CISRO (to which CISRO was all like “Nuh uh we don’t have the shark”), supposedly the shark’s jaws were kept as a souvenir to prove its authenticity along with the photos.
[H/T Daily Mail]