+- Fishing Forum (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum)
+-- Forum: Misc. Fishing Forums (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=335)
+--- Forum: Fishing news (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=141)
+--- Thread: Bone, Thought To Be Human, Found Inside Shark In S. Fla. (/showthread.php?tid=452828)
Bone, Thought To Be Human, Found Inside Shark In S. Fla. - FishNews - 11-17-2008
Broward County Sheriff's deputies said the captain thought the bone was human and called police. However, the six-inch bone turned out not to be human.
Captain Mark Quartiano -- who is known locally as "Mark the Shark" -- was gutting the fish Friday morning; a client had caught the 400-pound male bull shark the day before off the coast of Key Biscayne.
Mark said finding what he thought was a human bone was very scary.
"It's kind of weird," he said. "I've cut thousands and thousands of sharks open and never came across a human bone before. A lot of bones, but not humans."
Quartiano said the bone, and some small fish, spilled out of the shark. The bone "still had skin on it," the captain told a local TV station.
Crime scene techs responded and took the bone to the county medical examiner's office, where it was determined that the bone was not human.