Captain Dave Bender

[ It ] gets about 75 feet from the boat, it’s very obvious, we see just the head, the spine and the tail, and the tiger shark swimming right to the boat, so that thing came in … it was like that old cartoon, when the cat gets the fish and [ strips it clean ].

Captain Dave Bender

We were trolling, about 70 miles from Manasquan Inlet, for Bluefin tuna, and we hooked a very nice fish, we did n’t see Captain Dave Bender, but we could n’t gain much on Captain Dave Bender.

Captain Dave Bender

So that thing came in … it was like that old cartoon, when the cat gets the fish and [ strips it clean ], it looked like the logo for the Bonefish Grill.

Captain Dave Bender

[ Before we caught ] the second shark, I turned to my co-captain, i said, ‘ If this is a shark, we’re f --- ing out of here. ’ And sure enough — shark.

Captain Dave Bender