Fearless Florida diver pulls metal hook from shark's belly
Talk about a fearless diver, this is something we strongly encourage should not be tried at home.
Josh Eccles, was swimming in Florida last week when one of the Lemon sharks passing by kept continually bumping into him.
"Every time it swam by me, it would bump into me a little more,” Eccles told ABC in West Palm Beach.
"They always bump into us but they don't bump into us that frequently," he continued.
Eccles is in the water at least six times a week as part of his job with a scuba diving center.
He suspected something was amiss with the shark, so he decided took a closer look, which the shark didn't seem to mind.
"It would lift up its stomach and I noticed something, so I kind of poked at it a little, the little hook or something," he told ABC.
Showing neither fear nor hesitation, Eccles decided to alleviate the shark's discomfort and delicately remove the hook.
The hook was about the size of his hand.
After the hook was gone, the shark swam away, only to return back to Eccles several times.
At one point, the shark swam right up to a video camera, which Eccles believes was its way of saying "thank you."
"That was a crazy opportunity, experience to be a part of," Eccles said.
The bizarre incident occurred in the waters of Jupiter, a popular holiday destination.
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