SUP fisherman shark encounter
SUP fisherman shark encounter

Fisherman Austin Craver was 5 miles off Jupiter Florida’s coast floating around in the Gulf Stream when he hooked a Bonita, a fast swimming game fish from the mackerel family. The fight was on and he nearly landed the fish when an unexpected guest entered the picture.

“Little did we know there were massive sharks just waiting to pounce on anything charters or we bring up!”

Not exactly sure when a standup paddle board ceases to be a SUP and is classified as a boat, but I suspect strapping an outboard motor to the transom might be an indicator. Nevertheless Austin identifies as a SUP fisherman for now, although after an incident like this he may “need a bigger boat”:

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