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While spearfishing on a wreck site in the northern Gulf of Mexico Grayson Shepard goes for a ride behind a large Goliath Grouper. Shepard had several encounters (during this one dive) with Goliath grouper that wanted his fresh kills. This video show three of those encounters. In one instance the giant grouper grabs Shepard's fish and spear and drags him across the reef. Here is Grayson's description of the encounter: “In the first scene, I shot a snapper and was pulling it towards me when a goliath came out of hiding and tried to eat it. Had I been retrieving the fish any slower he would have been successful. In the second scene, I shot a snapper and as I approached it, a Goliath attacked and ate it while I held the end of the spear in my hand. I get dragged a short distance and this action bends my $50 spear so badly it will no longer load into my speargun. The third scene is a brawl with several Goliaths fighting for my speared fish. One of them swallows it and br
