Not to take the moment away from this guy... even for him it would be
business as usaual... but it's a Greenland Shark and they swim about as
fast as Bobsprit at low tide in the LIS..... Big, mostly blind and
exceedingly sluggish.

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| STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Icelandic fishing captain, known as "the
| Iceman" for his tough character, grabbed a 660-pound shark with his bare
| hands as it swam in shallow water toward his crew, a witness said
| Thursday.
|
| The skipper of the trawler "Erik the Red" was on a beach in Kuummiit,
| east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the
| shark swimming toward the fish blood and guts -- and his men.
|
| Captain Sigurdur Petursson, known to locals as "the Iceman," ran into
| the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail. He dragged it off
| to dry land and killed it with his knife.
|
| "He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea
| and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous," Frede Kilime, a
| hunter and fisherman who watched from the beach, told Reuters by phone
| from Greenland.
|
| Icelandic author and journalist Reynir Traustason, who knows the trawler
| captain, said the act was typical of the man.
|
| "He's called 'the Iceman' because he isn't scared of anything," he said.
| "I know the people in that part of the world. They are really tough."