Shark fisher Stephen Perkins got more than he bargained for when he landed a blue shark off Lundy Island.
Holding up the shark for the obligatory photograph, Mr. Perkins was somewhat taken aback when the shark clamped its serried ranks of razor sharp teeth around his forearm.
Mr. Perkins had to be airlifted to hospital because of the severe bleeding and underwent reconstructive surgery.
He later explained that fishermen like himself do not harm the sharks, they merely take a photograph then release the shark back into the water.
Boggartblog managed to track down the shark with the aid of CEO Jenny.
It has to be said the shark was unrepentent.
"It's alright these fishermen saying they don't do us any harm, but let me tell you, if you've gone to eat a tasty morsel then found there was a bloody big hook in the middle of it which gets stuck in your mouth you wouldn't be too bloody pleased.
Then you try to swim away and you realise there is a line attached to the hook, because you get so far and then suddenly the line goes taut and the next thing you know you're going backwards.
That can go on for hours until you think 'oh fuck it' and just go with the flow.
Then they haul you out of the water, which may not sound too bad, but let me tell you it's no laughing matter, like having a polythene bag put over your head, why on earth they think we're not going to object to being left flapping about on some cold bloody deck, gasping for breath, is beyond me.
Then, to cap it all, they pick us up by the snout and want us to pose for a bloody picture.
Why on earth they can't use the one they took of me last week I don't bloody know.
So yeah, I snapped, I'd just about had it up to here, you know. And I'll do the same again if anybody else tries it on with me.
They want a bloody picture why don't they just bloody ask?"