Steven Rinella

And he was around in an era when you were starting to see declines in some of the traditional fish that people went after off Long Island.

So we talked about bluefin declines.

Swordfish declines, other things were in decline and Mundus was kind of an opportunist and he built this business where he called himself monster man.

He had necklaces full of shark teeth.

He would drag home these giant sharks, big tigers, big Makos, whatever he'd get his hands on.

He'd hang them up on the dock, you know, by a chain from a hoist.

Tourists would see these big fish and he would sell trips to go for sharks.

And he built this whole persona around the big shark hunter.

Right.

At one point in time, it, let me back that up.

Mundus had developed a sort of fishing secret where he would tether off to dead whales.

Find them.

Now, rumors, and I'm not, he's gone, and I don't have firsthand experience.

I haven't talked to people who had firsthand experience with Mundus, but there were rumors that Mundus, his knack for finding dead whales sort of defied belief.

And it was speculated by individuals that it can't be that he's just able to find these whales.

He must be generating dead whales.

He's generating dead whales in order to tether off on these whales and fish sharks that are coming to feed on whales.

That was a rumor.

You can go search online and you will find that rumor.

if you needed to find a dead whale here's your man yeah he'll find it for you he'll find one this morning i know where it is so mundus goes i don't even remember what year this was i think it was 86 or 83 well the one he harpooned oh yeah he goes off he has a dead whale he ties up on it and he's out there and he harpoons a i believe it was a white shark um in the 4 000 pound range