Shark leaps into fishing trawler
Mainichi Shimbun / Sat. July 17
SUSAMI, Wakayama -- Fisherman working off the coast here got the shock of their lives after a 350-kilogram blue pointer shark suddenly leaped from the water and into their boat, hurting one on board in the process, Japan Coast Guard officials said.
Yuji Torimi, 51, a Kobe Municipal Government worker on the Shikishima-maru trawler when the shark jumped in, suffered broken ribs after the huge marine creature's tail fin slammed into his chest.
Torimi's injury aside, fishermen who had been looking for squid gleefully took the shark back to the local fish market, where it was cut up.
