mrfixitchapman
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This guy is never going to touch my
regulators.
DC
regulators.
DC
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I've called the shop three times now. The first two times the people I spoke with were ignorant of the website, spearfishing and spearfishing regulations. Today, I spoke for quite a while to Capt. Ken's wife. She seemed unaware of scubaboard and viewed the situation as an unnamed person attempting to slander the shop.
She agreed that the picture was a very poor idea. She indicated that she did not know the whole and complete story, but it went something like this:
Ken was diving when he came upon the nurse shark which was impaled by a gaff. He rescued the shark and released it. There was no connection to spearfishing.
I think that it is quite likley thta a fisherman may have hooked the shark and then after gaffing it, the shark shook causing the fisherman to loose his gaff and the shark swims away. I have found a number of gaffs, some even floating.
The story sounds resonable but I doubt it was necessary to remove the shark from the water and taking the pictures and posting them on the spearing page of the website was incredibly stupid as is some of the other language on the site. The poor wife seemed somewhat overwhelmed with the situation and capt, Ken is unable to address the situation due to family responsibilities.
I figured it is only fair to present the other side of the story, even though I have been very harsh in my own posts.
No doubt, in the unlikely event the shark didn't shake free of the gaff it would be extremely simple to remove a gaff underwater and let the shark swim on it's way.
He brought the shark with gaff up from the depths, held onto until boat arrived, landed on boat somehow, held onto for photo op, then set free? Fishing gaffs are not barbed. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
I've called the shop three times now. The first two times the people I spoke with were ignorant of the website, spearfishing and spearfishing regulations. Today, I spoke for quite a while to Capt. Ken's wife. She seemed unaware of scubaboard and viewed the situation as an unnamed person attempting to slander the shop.
She agreed that the picture was a very poor idea. She indicated that she did not know the whole and complete story, but it went something like this:
Ken was diving when he came upon the nurse shark which was impaled by a gaff. He rescued the shark and released it. There was no connection to spearfishing.
I think that it is quite likley thta a fisherman may have hooked the shark and then after gaffing it, the shark shook causing the fisherman to loose his gaff and the shark swims away. I have found a number of gaffs, some even floating.
The story sounds resonable but I doubt it was necessary to remove the shark from the water and taking the pictures and posting them on the spearing page of the website was incredibly stupid as is some of the other language on the site. The poor wife seemed somewhat overwhelmed with the situation and capt, Ken is unable to address the situation due to family responsibilities.
I figured it is only fair to present the other side of the story, even though I have been very harsh in my own posts.