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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, March 18, 1966

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Miami Pool a Tiger shark opens wide to show rows of glistening by Walter new York Bureau Wiikna Captain William Dray sets Oul in capture alive a boastful of lie everything must he done right the first second if arc usually once they have wrestled the thrashing creatures into the ships live Dray and his crewmen must ease the Hooks from those fearsome keeping Rhar of the five rows of razor like sometimes they must struggle to keep the catch from ripping each other other Tii is its necessary to jump right into the Well and walk a shark that battled to the Point of far from showing gratitude for such solicitous Many a crazed shark sunk its Teeth into Grays arms and and he has the scars to prove when people learn that he is the director of collections and Hexhi Hulnes at miamis fumed sea they almost always want in know ii arc really apparently expecting to hear that shark stories arc largely mariners my Only answer is to show them the Sharks Are Eros sly will bite As unexpectedly s certain said Gray he and a Scanu Alum assistant were moving a dozen or so Sharks of various kinds from one exhibition tank to the water had been lowered to about Waist deep for easier and the unhappy at being were thrashing about them in we managed to shove 11 of them into crates without and they were hauled safely the last was a Large Bull which we cast a net it ripped its Way through the tangled meshing and rushed at first it caught my assistant above the inflicting a Nasty Ait blood flowed into the the shark became maddened with the smell and charged at slashing sideways at my right i Felt the stinging pain of a Cut and had the impression of actually hearing flesh we made it to the ladder and left that shark to do his rampaging both of us had to be stitched my wound took 55 stitches to close and looked like a piece of the Captain makes Sharks prone to they become so enraged they will even attack inanimate lie recalled the plight us two com Mercial fishermen who were Busy Spanish Mackerel off the Sodalh Florida coast when their boat attacked and actually sunk by a Furi Ous 20foul Tiger shark that rammed its Blunt nose right through the the were res cued and later salvaged the they loot Truea on pane us March 1966 Back from a the captive Sharks Are hoisted out of the be aquarium the stars and stripes 11  
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