shark attack I was talking to dArt today. He's working as a commercial diver over in Digby, Nova Scotia, doing some urchin fishing. I don't know much about the demand for urchins, but apparently it's a delicacy, and the Japanese pay well for them. dArt mentioned that working in the Bay of Fundy is pretty hard work, due to the 100-foot tides and strong currents. They have to wear about a hundred pounds in weights around their legs just to stay in place on the bottom, where they pick up these urchins.

Last week dArt was in the process of re-surfacing when he felt a nudge on his foot. He said sometimes divers sneak up on each other and try to scare each other, so he glanced down, only to discover that a mako shark had his foot in its mouth!



So he's thinking, "you've got to be f@#$'in' kidding me!". But he was terrified and panicking, trying to remember his training for such a scenario.

The mako has been known to attack boats on occasion but most of these attacks are usually linked to being hooked by game fishers and are considered abnormal behavior.

Suffice it to say that he did manage to get away unharmed - and without dropping his bag of urchins! And he's now something of a local celebrity, with his name in the paper and everything.

This article has a very similar story to dArt's. Scary.  | ¶ 1:28 p.m.