He tried shooting it seven times with a spear gun before finally killing it with a knife
He tried shooting it seven times with a spear gun before finally killing it with a knife
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A diver fought with a 12-ft tiger shark for nearly two hours when it tried to attack his friend during an
underwater spear fishing expedition in the US state of Louisiana.
Craig Clasen went head to head with the aggressive predator, shooting it seven times with a spear gun, when it was about to attack another fisherman.
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Friend circled
Clasen (32) was hunting yellow finned tuna with his friends Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D J Struntz and filmmaker Ryan McInnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the close encounter happened.
The group were about to leave the deep waters of the Mississippi River when McInnis found himself alone in the company of the shark.
Clasen grabbed his spear gun and swam to help his friend, who was being circled by the giant predator.
He said, "I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it would pass us by.
"I noticed that the shark was getting tighter and tighter and just kept trying to get a back angle on us and behaving in an aggressive manner.
"The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us so I just went ahead and took the conservative route and put a shaft through its gills.
Wrestling a shark
"Cameron and I have been around sharks for years and we all have a lot of experience with them, but this encounter had a different feel to it."
Clasen spent nearly two hours wrestling with the shark, spearing it seven times and even attempting to drown the beast before eventually finishing it off with a long blade knife in June last year.
He said, "Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job."
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