day off

I had a good week of poker last week, this week seems to be a little different. But i'll get into that later. Got a chance to go diving yesterday with a friend of mine from key west who also lives up here in tampa. Pretty interesting day, we go out at noonish and get to the wreck at 1:30. We pull up and there are barracudas everywhere and a big cobia swimming on the surface, which is good eating and really fun to shoot(hopefully i can post the photo). So we anchor up and start freediving, the depth is 45ft. My first drop down i see a really nice grouper hauling ass away, and then a 6-7 foot Bull Shark cruises by on the bottom. He didn't seem too threatening so we keep going, after a bit i notice the cobia lying on the bottom. I try to get my friend to back me up, but he ends up diving down behind me and eventually see's the cobia on the bottom and he goes and shoots it! Asshole steals my fish!! Its all good though cuz he didn't know i was there. The cobia fights real hard and shakes the spear free and starts swimming in a circle on the bottom. All the commotion brings the shark through and he does a pass checking things out and then dissapears. After a couple more shots and about 5 minutes we get the nice cobia and swim him back to the boat.

Now we rest for like 5min and get back in. Swim around for awhile and i make a dive to about 15 ft off the bottom and scan the area for fish. As i'm about to head up for air I look over my shoulder to see this Bull Shark coming up from behind me about 10ft away. By the time i get turned around and get my gun between he is about 5 ft away and closing. He makes a slight turn more towards me and i Jab my spear as hard as i can square into his nose. Not liking that he takes off to the bottom and cruises around for a little bit while we swim back towards the boat. I was really lucky i saw him when i did b/c one of two things would have happened:

1) He just does a curious pass by and maybe grazes my fins.

or

2) He does a curios pass and takes a test bite out of my leg.

Anyways, all the rest of the fish we saw were small and all we got was this cobia....