Giant monster HAMMERHEAD shark! Until Tuesday, the biggest shark Dennis ever caught was a 13-foot hammerhead in 2004. I've gotten a few messages on how I should've dragged her back, but there's not even a question that we did the right thing," he said. The lectotype for this species is a 2.5-m-long (8.2ft) male from the Red Sea. As he did his best to reel it in, however, a massive hammerhead swam up and swallowed the smaller shark before attempting to flee. GENTLER CREATURES: Whale shark caught on camera after nudging man's boat. The great hammerhead was first described as Zygaena mokarran in 1837 by German naturalist Eduard Rppell. Fields said the species is infamously difficult to spot, mainly because they are critically endangered. A photo of McClellen standing by hisimpressive catch was sharedon Facebook by the tournament's organizers on Sunday, July 9. The weight of the female was due to her being pregnant with 55 neonatal pups. The biggest hammerhead ever found was caught by a recreational angler in Florida, and measured 14.5 feet long, and weighed 1,282 pounds. Of those eight, five are critically endangered scalloped bonnethead, scalloped hammerhead, scoophead, great hammerhead, and small-eye hammerhead with the remainder either endangered or vulnerable. [20], The great hammerhead is regularly caught both commercially and recreationally in the tropics, using longlines, fixed bottom nets, hook-and-line, and trawls. The massive demand for shark fin soup has led to a severe population drop in hammerhead shark populations around the world. The pelvic fins are sickle-shaped with concave rear margins, in contrast to the straight-margined pelvic fins of the scalloped hammerhead. They mainly skim along the ocean floor looking for prey, and they use their unique heads to great effect when hunting. Despite their great size, there have been zero human fatalities attributed to great hammerhead sharks. Discover the Biggest Hammerhead Ever Caught Off Florida Huge as that may be, it is far from the size of their extinct relative, the titanic Megalodon. Sergio Roque took home second place with his 964-pound tiger shark and James Massa Jr. brought in an 817-pound tiger shark for the third place prize, according to the tournament's leaderboard online. BlacktipH Products:http://bit.ly/blacktiph-shop Greg Norman \"The Shark\" Social Media: Follow Greg on Twitter @SharkGregNorman Follow Greg on Instagram @shark_gregnorman Follow Greg on Facebook http://bit.ly/greg-norman-FB Greg's website http://bit.ly/shark-website To learn more about the species of fish caught in this video, click the links below: Great Hammerhead Shark http://bit.ly/great-hammerhead-info ABOUT BLACKTIPH BlacktipH Fishing brings you some of the most exciting fishing videos on the web.
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