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As a fisherman, I have a weird respect for going out this way.
If I've learned anything from all the crime shows my wife watches, there was no tuna, and his friend and wife will be married in 6 months. >

All depends on whether or not life insurance was previously bought by the spouse they've been fighting with
Also your wife would love watching That Chapter on YouTube >

Did you say...LIFE INSURANCE?? >

I want Mike to do a 2 minute loop of that life insurance dance. 🤣🤣 >

That’s got to be the scariest shit ever, he was likely pulled under by the ahi tuna he just caught.. >

Did he catch the fish, or did the fish catch him? >

Hemmingway's alternate ending to the Old Man and the Sea. >

How to make a short book even shorter. >

Is this a clever teaser for Sicario 3: El Pescador >

He does resemble Benecio delToro 🤔 >

Sometimes, the fish catch you >

The sea was angry that day, my friends. >

Is that a Titleist? >

His name wasn't Limpet by any chance? >

Uhhh.....  might have been better to let go of the rod? >

might have been wearing one of those straps that is connected to the pole? >

I've only seen videos of deep sea fishing. But every time, I noted the rods were strapped to the fisherman's harness, and wondered if that was safe. >

When I did it, I was wearing a harness to keep me in the chair. >

What happens when the fish is bigger than the boat? >

You get a bigger boat.   Like in that old documentary about the big shark. >

Never heard of it 🤷‍♂️ >

I think it was called Beaches >


I think it was called Beaches

Close. It was called Mandibles.   
Had a memorable polka music soundtrack. >

Ah yea, the mythical lion hunting tunas from The Other Guys. >

This happens all the time.  Not to take away from it being sad, I work in maritime SAR, and just in our area of responsibility it happens multiple times a year >

I had no idea. Fish food. >

I know a lot of people are rightly skeptical of this...but some back of the envelope calculations are pretty frightening.  
Ahi Tuna are known to swim as fast as 47 mph (21 m/s) and dive to great depths. 600 feet is pretty common. They can top 400 lbs, more than double this dude's weight.
Let's assume this guy is taken by surprise with a huge strike and suddenly finds himself in the water, he has the average reaction time (for touch) of 150 milliseconds, and for the sake of argument, say it takes 1 second to decide to "it's time let go of my very, very expensive fishing rod"--forget it being clipped, this is about to be a wild ride for 1.15 seconds. 
It isn't unreasonable to assume the tuna struck at high speed and sped off once it realized it was hooked. If his drag wasn't set right, and he was plopped over board, that fish could have him dragged him down to a depth of 24.2ish meters in that 1.15 seconds.
That's 80 feet. 
Do you think you could swim up from 80 feet so quickly? If he was clipped to the rod, he might end up at 1200 feet deep. 
Shit, for all we know, he is still being pulled around by a 400 lb pissed off fish, a fifth of a mile below the surface of the ocean as we speak. 
Just saying, this isn't too crazy of a claim.
EDIT: Psssshh I forgot to even mention this--if he was standing up by edge of the boat, not strapped to a fighting chair, his center of gravity is going to be well above the sides of a fishing boat--the slightest imbalance and he'd fall right overboard. If he had the fish at the boat and it suddenly dove straight down and this guy had locked his drag, then the situation is even more plausible. >

There is no way you could hold a rod while being pulled down through water at that speed. That rod would have been ripped from his hands immediately.
I challenge anyone to hold on to anything that can move them 80ft in a second in any direction under any circumstance.
Edit: And if he were tethered, how could 200lb test line survive this without breaking? >

Perhaps you missed the line where I said:

..say it takes 1 second to decide to "it's time let go of my very, very expensive fishing rod"-- forget it being clipped, this is about to be a wild ride for 1.15 seconds.

That is to say, if he didn’t have to fumble with untethering himself. Just to illustrate a point lol. Back of the envelope implies a quick dirty estimation to get an idea of the orders of magnitude. Not the actual numbers…”assume this is true, therefore, result”. 
He was obviously either tethered or tangled up or—implying he was likely taken far deeper than 80ft. If he wasn’t and the fish only pulled him 15-20ft under, he could still drown. If it were just the right depth, he wouldn't float back up due to the loss of buoyancy as he goes deeper. Divers can tell you all about neutral buoyancy and what happens when you go over or under that thresh hold. The point of an exercise like this is to show some estimated values given what we know or can look up and assuming the best case for him(not tethered). They were just arbitrarily picked numbers that I said could be reasonable for the situation to illustrate the power of this fish. 
If you’d like, I could do a really boring in-depth(heh) discussion involving water resistance and this man’s relative density and cross sectional area, we could talk about the impulse he received and his change in momentum to ensure his kinetic energy was enough to overcome the force of gravity acting through his center of gravity, and make sure we take into account of the energy lost to friction as he was pulled over the side. Shit, why not run some hydrodynamic simulations of this poor bastard being tugged through the water, get some info on when his decent changes from producing laminar flows vs chaotic—we’ll need to solve that numerically because the equations are inherently intractable. But that would take a lot of pointless work that would involve MORE estimations to demonstrate the same point and would lose the interest of anyone pretty quickly. 
I live in the real world, I describe it for a living. >

This is awesome and I love breakdowns like these. Hopefully I didn't read too fast and you mentioned it but people are forgetting occam's razor: he could have simply had his mouth open as he was surprised and tugged from the boat and swallowed a lethal amount of water into his lungs as he plunged in. >

There are so many variables. A back of the envelope calculation is just meant to give some idea of orders of magnitude--at most or at least--based upon some assumptions. Depending on how reasonable those assumptions are, you can get pretty close.  I think its entirely possible he lost consciousness and was dragged deep enough to just sink. Even if he were conscious, its entirely possible he wasn't a strong enough swimmer to overcome that extra force so he'd just sink slower. If he drowns below the point of neutral buoyancy he sinks. If he drowns above the point of neutral buoyancy, his body will float up. If he is smack dab in the middle and is neutrally buoyant...and dead...then he's just gonna hang there at that depth in an unstable equilibrium until he is pushed just a bit in one direction or the other (think of the old egg laid on the apex of a roof--does it roll down on side or the other? It just takes a slight push one way or the other for the decent to start). >

The tuna ate Benicio Del Toro’s uncle! >

Which is ironic because the belly fat if a tuna is known as toro. >

Damn. That fist mate told me it was called Roseanne. >

Dude looks like Benicio Del Toro in disguise >

If he was wearing a belt with the reel hooked into it and  the tuna dove deep and he couldn't unhook he may have drowned.   Or this whole story is fake. >

Dude got uno reversed. >

I’ve done a lot of fishing for halibut, and brought in a few well over 100 lbs.  Never ever ever have I had the rod connected to me.  I’ve also seen people lose their rod to halibut that felt to be of no significant size.  There is no way that dude was dragged under from holding the rod with just his hands.  Seems like someone really fucked up with the setup in this situation. >

Imagine if we rescue him - the tuna goes back to tell his buddies, "I swear he was this big!" >

I've read this one. He's out at sea for days and then by the time he gets back sharks have eaten the whole fish except the skeleton >

Another needless death on the water. Wear your godamn PFDs people!! >

Looks like Benicio del Toro is going to have to play him in the movie version of this. >

I don’t like this guy’s chances. If he was fishing near a river, or some fresh water source, maybe. But man, you find yourself in the ocean, a 20 ft wave, I’m assuming its off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full, grown, 800 lb tuna with his 20 or 30 friends? 
You lose that battle. you lose that battle nine times out of ten. 
And guess what, you wandered into their school, of tuna, and they now have a taste of human blood! They’ve talked, between themselves. They’ve communicated and said, ‘you know what? Guy tastes good. Lets go get some more guy.’
They’ll develop a system, to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt us and our families. And they’ll corner you, your community, your children, your offspring… 
They will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. They’ll be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. Its not going to be days at a time, but an hour, hour 45? No problem. That will give them enough time to figure out where we live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen and then stalk us. Fishermen just lost at their own game; we are out gunned and outmanned. >

Copy pasted >

Sometimes you catch the fish. Sometimes the fish catch you. >

The big one that got away and took the fibbing fisherman with him.