Quick shark yarn.
I used to be fishing guide.
I did live aboard trips from Cooktown to Princess Charlotte bay, that operation we did a bit of reef fishing, and Barra fishing once past Cape Melville. Also did Heavy tackle marlin out of Cairns, live aboard Barra trips out of Gove, and day trips out of Darwin.
Biggest shark I ever saw was on the Great Barrier Reef. It was somewhere near Princess Charlotte Bay, and it was an oceanic hammerhead. It was enormous! Ive seen huge tigers, plenty of whalers, all sorts of other sharks, no white pointers though. I know white pointers are mammoths due to their bulk, but I kid you not this hammerhead made up fo that in length! Its dorsal fin came out of the water what seemed about 4 feet! The skipper called me over to see it, he had lived and worked on boats his entire working life, he was in his seventies at the time, and said it was the biggest shark he had seen also. Ill never forget the shark or the skipper, great man. A.Southwood.