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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?
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.