Diver Attacks 19.5' long Great White Shark

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<TD><FONT face=Arial size=6>Aussie Diver Attacks 6-Meter White Shark In Mexican
Tuna Farm Mexico</FONT>
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<TD colSpan=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dean “Deano” Stefanek spent 30 minutes
battling an enraged 6m great white shark – and lived.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top width="64%"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The South Australian tuna
diver has told how he volunteered to jump into a tuna pen to try to kill the
injured shark. “Somebody had to do it, no one else was too keen, so I went in,”
Stefanek, 38, said.

The struggle took place recently at a tuna farm off
the coast of Mexico and the tale of the Aussie who "wrestled" the fearsome fish
has spread.

Stefanek, who returned to Port Lincoln this month after a
six-month contract working on Mexican tuna farms, played down his feat. “It was
one of those things that just happened,” he said. "The shark had got in by
biting its way through the bottom of the net after detecting a couple of dead
fish. There was just no way we could get it out, so the decision to kill it was
made and some blokes shot it – but no way it would die. It started to get messy
and I jumped into the water and swam outside the net so I could shoot it with a
power head (spear-fitted with a shotgun cartridge).”

The white pointer
became enraged and began thrashing around the 45m diameter tuna net.
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</FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=1>Deadly Duel: Dean Stefanek and the
great white shark, which he wrestled and
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<FONT face=Arial size=2>“Someone had to go in,” Stefanek said. “I was the
most experienced diver there and no one else was too keen, so I went inside the
net. The shark saw me and went berserk. I tried to kill it quickly and fired at
its head, which only stunned it.
I fired eight more times and it kept coming
back and thrashing. I think it was then that I started to get a bit scared.
Another diver could see I was in trouble and came inside the net – we figured we
were not going to kill it and I thought we'll have to drag it
out.”

Stefanek surfaced and called for a rope and pulley and dived again
to tie a rope around the shark's tail.

While the fish was distracted
with another diver, Stefanek looped and knotted its tail and signaled to start
winching. “It was after I looked at it on the boat I realised it was huge,” he
said. “No one there had ever seen a shark so big and there were a few stunned
and amazed looks.”

”The great pity was it had to be killed – particularly
as it was wounded. I know they (great whites) are becoming extinct. But there is
only one of me and it could have made me extinct very quickly.”</FONT></P></TD>
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