Nov 14, 2008 11:47 am US/Eastern
ME: Bone Found In 9-Foot Bull Shark Is Not Human
POMPANO BEACH (CBS News) ―
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A South Florida fisherman got the surprise of his life Friday morning while gutting his latest catch. It was what he believed to be a human leg bone inside of a giant bull shark but it turns out, the bone isn't human at all.
According to an investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's office, who spoke to
CBS4's Gary Nelson, it was "immediately apparent" that the bone, about 8-inches long with pieces of flesh clinging to it, belongs to "some sort of sea mammal."
Mark "The Shark" Quartiano, a charter captain who has fished off Miami Beach for more than 30 years, reeled in a 9-foot, 450-pound male bull shark about a quarter mile off shore near Government Cut on Thursday during one of his charter trips aboard his fishing boat, the Striker-1.
Quartiano waited until Friday morning to gut and clean the shark at his Pompano Beach location and when he cut open the shark's belly, a bone, which he thought was human, spilled out along with other fish.
CBS4.COM spoke to Mark over the phone and he described the moment it happened.
"Whoa, this looks like a leg bone," he said. "There was still skin on it. There was still meat on it. It was definitely weird," Mark explained to
CBS4.COM.
Suspecting that the bone could be human, he immediately called the Broward Sheriff's Office. The bone was taken to the Broward ME's office which has determined it is not human.
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