'Iceman' Grabs Live Shark With Bare Hands To Save Men

[matcom]

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuters) - An Icelandic fishing captain, known as "the Iceman" for his tough character, grabbed a 660-lb shark with his bare hands as it swam in shallow water toward his crew, a witness said Thursday.

The skipper of the trawler "Erik the Red" was on a beach in Kuummiit, east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the shark swimming toward the fish blood and guts -- and his men.

Captain Sigurdur Petursson, known to locals as "the Iceman," ran into the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail. He dragged it off to dry land and killed it with his knife.

"He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous," Frede Kilime, a hunter and fisherman who watched from the beach, told Reuters by phone from Greenland.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2003/10/23/tough_icelandic_iceman_grabs_shark_to_save_men/

[WillParkinson]

1. Gee, too bad...

Even sharks need to eat.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Aw, hell...I thought this was a story about George Gervin!

The perils of growing up in San Antonio. :P

[underpants]

3. Gervin would have just finger rolled it onto land

I thought the same thing. This Iceman sounds like one tough character.