11-17-2008, 12:10 PM
Broward County Sheriff's deputies said the captain thought the bone was human and called police. However, the six-inch bone turned out not to be human.
Captain Mark Quartiano -- who is known locally as "Mark the Shark" -- was gutting the fish Friday morning; a client had caught the 400-pound male bull shark the day before off the coast of Key Biscayne.
Mark said finding what he thought was a human bone was very scary.
"It's kind of weird," he said. "I've cut thousands and thousands of sharks open and never came across a human bone before. A lot of bones, but not humans."
Quartiano said the bone, and some small fish, spilled out of the shark. The bone "still had skin on it," the captain told a local TV station.
Crime scene techs responded and took the bone to the county medical examiner's office, where it was determined that the bone was not human.
Captain Mark Quartiano -- who is known locally as "Mark the Shark" -- was gutting the fish Friday morning; a client had caught the 400-pound male bull shark the day before off the coast of Key Biscayne.
Mark said finding what he thought was a human bone was very scary.
"It's kind of weird," he said. "I've cut thousands and thousands of sharks open and never came across a human bone before. A lot of bones, but not humans."
Quartiano said the bone, and some small fish, spilled out of the shark. The bone "still had skin on it," the captain told a local TV station.
Crime scene techs responded and took the bone to the county medical examiner's office, where it was determined that the bone was not human.