{"id":6415,"date":"2009-03-12T19:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2009-03-12T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T02:41:10","slug":"dj-struntz-crazy-shark-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6415","title":{"rendered":"DJ Struntz Crazy Shark Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-1161211-03d5bc17000005dc-731-634x600jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-1161211-03d5bc17000005dc-731-634x600jpg.jpeg','popup','width=634,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/article-1161211-03d5bc17000005dc-731-634x600-tm.jpg\" height=\"189\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Article-1161211-03D5Bc17000005Dc-731 634X600.Jpg\" \/><\/a>Diver <strong>Craig Clasen<\/strong> and friend <strong>Cameron Kirkconnell<\/strong> were hunting yellow fin tuna with filmmaker <strong>Ryan McInnis <\/strong>and <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong> staff photog <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.djstruntzphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Struntz<\/a><\/strong>  when a 12 foot tiger shark began circling McInnis, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1161211\/Pictured-The-moment-diver-grappled-12ft-tiger-shark-save-friend.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded friend, who was being circled by the giant predator. . . .&#8217;I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it would pass us by,&#8217; explained 32-year-old Mr Clasen. &#8216;I noticed that the shark was getting tighter and tighter and just kept trying to get a back angle on us and behaving in an aggressive manner. &#8216;The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us so I just went ahead and took the conservative route and put a shaft through its gills. &#8216;Cameron and I have been around sharks for years and we all have a lot of experience with them but this encounter had a different feel to it. &#8216;Down in my core I really felt the shark was there to feed. I didn&#8217;t want it to come to that.&#8217;Mr Clasen spent nearly two hours wrestling with the giant 12ft shark, spearing it seven times and even attempting to drown the beast before eventually finishing it off with a long blade knife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Clasen was killing a shark with his bare hands,  DJ was apparently getting perfect photos like the one above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1161211\/Pictured-The-moment-diver-grappled-12ft-tiger-shark-save-friend.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diver Craig Clasen and friend Cameron Kirkconnell were hunting yellow fin tuna with filmmaker Ryan McInnis and Surfing Magazine staff photog DJ Struntz when a 12 foot tiger shark began circling McInnis, according to a story in the Daily Mail. With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}