SHARK’S STRANGE FOOD.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8759, 8 March 1907, Page 1

SHARK’S STRANGE FOOD.

The •well-known Loch line clipper barque Loch Tay (Captain T. C. Martin), which recently left Melbourne with wheat for Home ports, had a curious experience on the voyage to Australia. The rotator of the patent log, which, as all seagoers know, swirls at the end of the log line several hundred yards from the ship, was swallowed by a shark shortly after the ship had crossed into southern latitudes. Fishing for the shark was engaged in for some time, but without success. Ho was a big fellow, and was seen by many on board. As there was only one spare rotator, the old-fashioned hand-log was heaved until near the Australian coast, when a new rotator was fastened on the line, and the patent log again set to work. This second rotator had not been on for more than a day or two when it was again attacked by a shark. This time, however, the rotator was saved, though badly scratched by the teeth of the fish, and the line nearly bitten through in several places. The incident was never known to happen in the skipper’s experience of forty years. To occur twice is most remarkable.