Fishermen battling a massive black marlin off the coast of Panama took a turn for the worse when the fighting fish appeared to sink their boat.
Seen in a shocking sequence of photos capturing the event on Thursday, the boat teeters toward the hooked marlin splashing above the waves before gradually capsizing and vanishing in the deep.
As both astonishing and affirming as the pictures appear, that this single marlin surely out took an entire boat and its crew, the boat’s alleged manufacturer close to those involved explains otherwise.
It was allegedly a captain's error that submerged the ship following a rogue wave that knocked him off balance, the source wrote with Marlin Magazine's photo of the incident on their Facebook wall.
The manufacturer was quick to defend the ship's strength and performance writing that the boat has previously captured 'hundreds of Marlin without issue or concern.'
Seen in a shocking sequence of photos capturing the event on Thursday, the boat teeters toward the hooked marlin splashing above the waves before gradually capsizing and vanishing in the deep.
As both astonishing and affirming as the pictures appear, that this single marlin surely out took an entire boat and its crew, the boat’s alleged manufacturer close to those involved explains otherwise.
It was allegedly a captain's error that submerged the ship following a rogue wave that knocked him off balance, the source wrote with Marlin Magazine's photo of the incident on their Facebook wall.
The manufacturer was quick to defend the ship's strength and performance writing that the boat has previously captured 'hundreds of Marlin without issue or concern.'
'Direct from Panama I was told that the sea conditions were not as calm as they seem to be in the pictures and the Captain was an experienced Captain,' they wrote.
The captain is said to have slipped while putting the boat in reverse or, backing down on the fish, to help reel it in.
That mistake by the ship's turbulence caused him to allegedly hit the throttle into full reverse causing the boat to abruptly lurch backwards and take on water.
'You can see how this might happen as you know when fighting a fish the Captain is facing aft with his hand on the throttles and when slipped the last thing your hand is holding onto is the throttle controls,' they wrote.
No one was said to have been hurt and all were rescued by the boat photographing the incident.
Sadly for the boat, it's said to have sunk to the bottom and the fish - who made a visible skip across the waves long after the boat was gone – may forever be known simply as 'the one that got away.'
The captain is said to have slipped while putting the boat in reverse or, backing down on the fish, to help reel it in.
That mistake by the ship's turbulence caused him to allegedly hit the throttle into full reverse causing the boat to abruptly lurch backwards and take on water.
'You can see how this might happen as you know when fighting a fish the Captain is facing aft with his hand on the throttles and when slipped the last thing your hand is holding onto is the throttle controls,' they wrote.
No one was said to have been hurt and all were rescued by the boat photographing the incident.
Sadly for the boat, it's said to have sunk to the bottom and the fish - who made a visible skip across the waves long after the boat was gone – may forever be known simply as 'the one that got away.'
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