Captain Chip Michalove of "Outcast Sport Fishing" might have caught the all-tackle world record white shark. He was fishing off off Hilton Head, in South Carolina, US.
The great white shark was hooked at around 2:50 in the afternoon and finally brought to the boat at 7 p.m. M
Michalove managed to attach near its dorsal fin an acoustic tag a scientist had given him, and he obtained a DNA sample.
After a 2-minute blistering run, she jumped completely out of the water and after an insane battle, we ended up getting her boat side.
He estimated that the great white shark weighed 2,500 pounds (1,135 kg), though there is no way to confirm that.
The all-tackle world record for a great white shark is 2,664 pounds, caught by Alfred Dean at Ceduna, Australia, back in 1959.
News source: http://www.grindtv.com