It takes crew more than an hour to get killer back where he belongs
(NEWSER) - A great white shark proved a bit too cooperative, and leaped into a boat full of researchers who were luring the killer creatures off South Africa by throwing bait into the water. "Next thing I know I hear a splash, and see a white shark breach out of the water, hovering, literally, over the crew member" who was throwing out chum, said a researcher. The big fish, which had leaped some 10 feet into the air, then landed in the boat. It took the crew, armed with ropes and a small crane from a responding vessel, more than an hour to get the great white back into the ocean, reports the Guardian . It's the first time researchers have heard of such an incident. They chalked it up to an accident rather than an attack on the boat. More»
