Well here goes. I had some friends that were going to charter a scuba boat and go out diving. I asked them if I and my dive buddy could tag allong and just do a little freediving and spearing and so they asked the dive master and he said it would be ok as long as they dont shoot everything he said ha!So we headed out to some open reefs about 6 miles out of the harbor. Everything was going well the scuba divers were enjoying the beautiful coral reefs and the vis was great(every spearo loves that) the fish at this first dive were quite skidish and deep I shot a small drum but that was it.Now on the seconed dive the water was a beautiful clear blue and the fish were here too! I shot a coral trout and a little bit later a dogtooth tuna both the fish were not real prizes so I was looking for something bigger and there it was a good size coral trout about 35-40lb so I dove and with my riffecom3 with 4 bands went down to about 55 feet and got in range and was about to shoot and it spooked but I took a quick shot and hit it good allmost stoned it but the spear did not penetrate
so the fish gose crazy and was able to drop the spear because it did not penetrate so I headed up and tried to watch were it went it went into a coral cave so I headed up and loaded my gun to go and get it.Meanwhile the scuba divers were on there way back to the boat but they were still down there and they passed the area were I had shot the fish and from above I saw my two friends pointing in a hole and looking at eachother so I thought that must be the trout but I thought It went in that other hole,well it must have moved while I was loading,............thats what I thought...
. So I dove down to the scuba divers and cheked out what they had been pointing at and there was the whitish belly of the trout in the poorly lit cave. So I thought ''I got you now'' and too the shock of the scuba divers I took aim and shot..........................................WHHA OOO Out shoots a whitetip 6-7 footer right in front of me and following it came a 4 footer thrashing its way out of the cave with my 7mm riffe shaft bending bad! As crazy as all this was it was a little funny to see how my scuba friends takeoff like lightning
. The shark tired quickly and I towed it to the boat and one of the scuba divers came up a little early because he ran out of air because of all that heavy breathing
Ha. We gave the shark away and the people loved it. So thats the long boring story of how I shot a shark by accident..............THE END ha
