But plenty of blue sharks and thresher sharks, including a 373-pounder, were donated.

Somebody did, and soon a nine-foot thresher shark was splashing off the stern.

"But I never heard the one about a thresher shark cutting a man's hand off with its tail."

"My biggest fish on my kayak to date was 126-pound thresher shark," he said.

The site is best known as the only place in the world where thresher sharks can be seen regularly before sunrise.

The thresher shark has a short head and a cone shaped nose.

When hunting schooling fish, thresher sharks are known to "slap" the water, herding and stunning prey.

No distinct breeding season is observed by thresher sharks.

The small mouth is arched and, unlike in other thresher sharks, has furrows at the corners.

At some distance from the shore a mighty struggle was in progress between a thresher shark and a whale.