“I was sticking my hand in a hole and a monster locked on me,” Sapp told the Tampa Bay Times. A Facebook page titled “Florida Lobster Mini-Season Must End” recounts many of the incidents each year. Presumably hungry, the shark went for the same lobster Sapp did. It’s this way every year at the beginning of Florida’s annual lobster mini-season, a two-day window (also called “sport season”) for hunting spiny lobster, held on the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday of July. “Mini-season is just too much of a zoo,” Bob Beville, vice president of sales for Waterman Broadcasting and lobster hunter, told the News-Press.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2016 11:05 UTC