Captain John Brossard was navigating the waters with his crew off the coast near Goodland, Florida, when they successfully caught a blacknose shark.
Interestingly, the fishermen spotted not one but three Atlantic goliath groupers, which seemed ready to challenge the shark.
This goes to show, and it’s quite surprising to some, that sharks are not the sole apex predators in the sea.
Suddenly, with remarkable speed, one of the enormous fish leaps from the water, captures the shark in its mouth, and vanishes, effectively breaking the fishing line of the crew.
“Basically we were shark fishing when all of a sudden two or three goliath groupers started hanging out under the boat waiting for our catch to come in.”
“We were just thinking ‘wow, unbelievable! Something is going to eat a shark and it’s bigger than a shark.'”
He estimated the grouper’s weight to be around 500 lbs.
Experiencing nature’s raw and unscripted moments like this is indeed a rare privilege.
He commented: “Do they deserve all the hype? I think sometimes yes and sometimes no, but most of the time, no.”
“Of course, if you get in their way, in their territory and the water is dirty, yes, they will taste you to see if you are good eating.”
He added: “There are sharks, alligators, crocodiles, pythons, dolphins and manatees all in one place.”
“It’s the only place in the world that has all these creatures in one place and everything there tries to eat everything else.”
“Bull sharks have been seen getting eaten by crocodiles and alligators sometimes, and sharks also get eaten by bigger fish there.”
“What we like to catch is big fish,” he said.
That certainly gives us something to think about before adding it to our adventure lists…