Sports agent Drew Rosenhaus is one of the most powerful men in sports, negotiating billions of dollars worth of contracts for his clients over his career.
Powerful enough, even, to take on a shark in open water.
Rosenhaus, who accompanied client and Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill on a fishing trip, posted a video on Tuesday of him grabbing a dusky shark by the tail. He held onto it for several seconds before finally disengaging with it.
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Hill, for what it's worth, said "Hell nah" when asked whether he wanted to jump in the water to join him.
Went fishing with @cheetah today and decided to get up close to this Dusky Shark pic.twitter.com/P1jIWKEuef
— Drew Rosenhaus (@DrewJRosenhaus) June 20, 2023
It seems as if Hill's fishing trip may be related to an incident over Father's Day weekend. He is accused of slapping a Miami Beach marina employee in the back of the head on Sunday.
Rosenhaus' video was posted on Tuesday, though it could have been taken earlier.
Hill later on Tuesday posted a video of his own battle with the shark, saying he battled it for roughly 45 minutes, presumably before Rosenhaus jumped in the water with it:
Got in a battle for 45 min just find out it was a shark !! Good times ✌🏿 pic.twitter.com/qJnai8Yt9R
— Ty Hill (@cheetah) June 20, 2023
Perhaps that's the reason the agent was so confident jumping in the water to take on the shark: It was exhausted. That is the opinion of Dr. Chris Lowe — a marine biology professor at California State University Long Beach — who said as much in an interview with USA Today.
"The fact that that shark just kind of slowly ambled towards the boat. Kind of banged into the boat, kind of rolled upside down," Lowe told USA Today. "Those are the behaviors we see from a shark that's either been caught and exhausted from the fight and then released, and they're kind of groggy."
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If the shark hadn't been exhausted from the encounter, Lowe said, it could have turned out a lot worse for Rosenhaus:
"When you grab a shark by the tail that way, they can literally do a circle, come back around, and that's how most fishermen are bit," he said.
According to the Florida Museum, dusky sharks are "potentially dangerous" to humans because of their large size and the fact they can be found in shallow coastal waters. That said, they "have been implicated in few interactions with humans."
Luckily for Rosenhaus — and all of his clients — his encounter with the shark didn't turn out for the worst.
