Big shark jaws, some idiot posing
Argh! Frozen shark!
The museum; some shark hunter has put a huge great white shark in a fridge (dead of course)
The reason; to tell everyone about shark attacks and how bad sharks are
The man; Vic Hislop, the shark's version of Steve Irwin
This is the day that my life changed forever. Having always been a little bit scared of what's in the sea, and jumping with every brush of seaweed against my leg, I am always curious about the source of my fear, Sharks. So when we passed by an old shack with faded painting proclaiming that it housed a 'frozen 3000lb monster' shark inside I simply had to satisfy my interest. I was not disappointed, I was rewarded with FIVE massive dead sharks in some weird fridge and hundreds of stories of shark attacks on humans and other animals, and insights on how people who have gone 'missing' in the sea, are surely the impact of a savage great white style death. Basically this guy hates sharks, and makes lots of home videos from the 80s of him catching them. The thing that scared me most was that this all took place right by where we are staying, just off the coast of Hervey Bay, and has video evidence of many a shark thrashing in the water, hunting its prey. It even showed a video of him catching 5 sharks, and then he pans out and you can see another boat, that is apparently a DIVE BOAT! Ah! Diving in shark infested waters people! The worst bit has to be a newspaper article about a Japanese diver on a dive trip to the Cod Hole (where we went) who went 'missing' (crazy Vic explains this as a certain shark death), and never surfaced to his dive boat, the 'Taka' (yes, the boat we went on). Now this may have been in 1993 but ah ah ah! I guess ignorance was bliss but Vic, I am a fan of your work!
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