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Monday, August 4, 2014

Jaws free! Divers pull fishing hook out of 6ft shark's MOUTH by turning it upside down into a trance

Jaws free! Divers pull fishing hook out of 6ft shark's MOUTH by turning it upside down into a trance

Cameron Nimmo, 26, and Mickey Smith, 25, often dive near Jupiter, Florida, and say three-quarters of the sharks they encounter have fishing hooks embedded somewhere in their bodies. So they turn shark species including this silky shark (pictured) upside down by tail, temporarily paralysing them so they can remove the foreign objects (inset). 'There is some danger there,' said Mr Nimmo, 'But the last thing I'm thinking about it getting bitten'.

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