Shocking Pix of A Diver Fighting With Shark To Save Friend

Shocking Pix of A Diver Fighting With Shark To Save Friend
Plunging a knife in again and again, diver Craig Clasen grapples with a 12ft tiger shark to protect a friend. For two hours he wrestled with the giant, spearing it seven times, even drowning the beast before eventually finishing it off with a knife. Mr Clasen was hunting yellow fin tuna with fellow fisherman Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D.J Struntz and film maker Ryan McInnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the encounter took place. Free diver Craig Clasen was forced to fight head-on with a 12-foot tiger shark when the predator turned on his friend during a spearfishing trip. The group were about to leave the deep waters south of the Mississippi River's mouth, when Mr McInnis found himself alone in thecompany of a tiger shark.With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded friend, who was being circled by the giant predator.
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. 'I shot it six times in the head with a spear and I wasn't having much luck - it was a slow drawn out process.
Mr Clasen, who usually sees 50-100 sharks on such dives, said that such an attack was rare Mr Clasen has been free diving and fishing since an early age. Hailing from Mississippi, he was brought up in a fishing family, and is an expert in all fishing disciplines. Despite his experience, Mr Clasen took no pleasure in disposing of the giant shark.