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The great white that I filmed off Chatham back in 2001 which circled our boat was estamated at 23 feet and over 3000lbs by Greg Skomal our leading shark biologist, so anything is possible. The video made all kinds of headlines and played on almost every news station from Maine to Fl. The reason we estimated it to be around 23' was the fact that the video shows the white along the side of our 23' mako. Makos rearly get over 14' and grow to a max of 16 and either shark in the 12' range can be mistaken for bigger to someone not use to seing these beautiful beast. The other shark that it could have been which are known to jump when hooked at times is a Porbeagle and do hit jigs at times. Porbeagles are a cold water shark and look like makos alot. Still they do not grow to 25'.
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