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...technique is both simple and lethal. Operating to depths of 100 ft. without special breathing apparatus, Scotty relies on his own aquatic agility and a deadly "powerhead," a 5-ft. metal pole topped by a steel tube loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun shell. Fortnight ago, on his way to the Navy's Underwater Demolition Team School at Little Creek, Va., he slipped into the ice-blue waters off Key West, Fla., for an enjoyable afternoon of shark shooting. A couple of fathoms below the surface, he nonchalantly stuffed chunks of a freshly killed, 7-ft. sting ray into...
Close as he came to annihilation, Scotty Slaughter has been far closer. Once he momentarily paralyzed a 17-ft. great white shark, reloaded just in time to see the man-eating monster charge, "with his mouth open like a cellar door." Slaughter flippered off to the side, slammed the powerhead home with a water-muted concussion that burst the shark's flat head...
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