Friends Gabriel Smeby, Derrick Keeny and Kyle Register never thought they would ever see the day when a great white shark was caught right off the shore, until it happened to them.
Early Sunday morning, the crew that make up Dark Side Sharkers reeled in a great white measuring in at nine-feet and eight-and-a-half inches on Panama City Beach in Florida.
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They claim they are the first to ever make a land-based great white shark catch, although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a similar catch has been made before.
The men say they had to wrestle with the shark for nearly an hour to bring it onto shore.
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They tagged the shark and released it after taking a few snapshots with what Keeny says is probably a once in a lifetime catch.
According to their Facebook page, Dark Side Sharkers say their goal is to support the practice of CPR: catch, picture, release.
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