HONOLULU (KHON2) — A routine dive off a remote Big Island beach turned into a painful lesson in marine rescue for a Kona fisherman on Tuesday, Dec. 9.
Kaimani Ventura, 24, was bitten while trying to free an entangled blacktip reef shark off Hawaii Island’s south shore.
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It started as an act of compassion. Ventura and two friends spotted the shark off Ka’alu’alu Beach, tangled in old nets and fishing line that looked as if they had been digging into the body of the animal for some time.
“We reacted to the situation and was like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna help the shark,’ so right there, I just reached out, and I grabbed the net, and the shark kind of like stopped swimming,” Ventura said. “So, I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’ Like, I don’t know, I don’t talk shark, you know?”…