Six friends broke a record after catching a 844-pound shark during a fishing tournament off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Adlee Bruner, 47, and his five other friends took more than an hour to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico.

A shrimp boat captain successfully delivered a baby 30 miles offshore. Captain Ed Kiesel used a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook to successfully deliver Cindy Preisel's baby boy on Tuesday, even though the baby's feet emerged first.

A Filipino fisherman who was lost at sea for 10 days, lived alone in an uninhabited island for three days, lived with inhabitants of another island for a month before being brought to Koror in Palau, was finally repatriated to the Philippines after a two month absence. The Philippine News Agency reported that Jonathan Tawameo, from the southern city of General Santos, went to fish alone on May 17. He left aboard a smaller boat, and when he went back to join a fishing fleet, it had already left.

It's the ultimate fish story. The crew of a chartered boat hauled in a 1,063-pound mako shark. The shark was more than half the size of the boat. The crew was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico when they hooked the 12-foot-6 shark.

Officials with Australia's marine police are puzzled by the discovery of an unmanned yacht found floating off Australia's Great Barrier Reef with its engines and electronics running, and food served on the table. The catamaran, named Kaz II, was spotted by a coastal aircraft during a regular patrol on Wednesday, but it was on Friday that rescue workers boarded the boat and reported the missing crew. Emergency Management Queensland spokesperson Jon Hall said that when rescuers reached the yacht they found the computers on the boat running and a table that apparently had been freshly set for a meal - but there was no signs of the crew.