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If early exposure to Jaws instilled in me a lifelong fear of the water - and it most definitely did - then pictures like the one you see above have ensured that it's a fear I will never get over, as long as I live - and they most definitely have!
As reported by Grind TV, Florida fisherman Mark "The Shark" Quartiano hooked himself this unexpected catch last Saturday, while out hunting for sharks off Miami Beach. Hoping to catch a shark while being documented by a Japanese filming crew, Quartiano was fishing at around 500 feet when something massive snagged the line, and fours later he pulled up the monster-sized 800-pound stingray seen above. A veteran of the sea who's no stranger to finding giant sea creatures at the end of his line, Quartiano described the catch as looking "like some kind of dinosaur," and says he has never in his life seen anything like it.
George H. Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History has identified the monster as a Dasyatis Centroura, a type of stingray that is apparently often seen by anglers who bottom-fish in the deep waters of the United States' East Coast.
... In other words, they're out there. Many of them. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
