Britta Nanz released 3 blue marlin on “Xacara”

William released 2 blue marlin on “Xacara”

Helmut Nanz released 2 blue marlin on “Xacara”

Robert McClure released 2 blue marlin on “Xacara”

Bryan Wicks’s 800 lb marlin on “Xacara”

Bryan Wicks’s 950+ lb marlin on “Xacara”

David Irwin’s marlin experience on “Habitat”

Jaque’s marlin experience on “Habitat”

Jaque’s marlin experience on “Habitat”

Claudio Marsomoni fights a 350 lb blue marlin

Daniel Goez fights a 700 lb blue marlin

The bite

Daniel’s blue marlin

….jumps…

….and jumps again

Working hard

Captain Ian

700 lbs of blue marlin

Success!

3 of the Danish Vikings: Dan, Martin and Thomas

Waiting for the strike

Tom concentrates

White marlin

SteveO wiring Dan’s 850 lb blue marlin

Hanging on no matter what

Dan celebrates while SteveO still tries to tame the beast

Dan’s 850 lb blue marlin

Marcello fights the first 900 lber

Marcello’s second 900 lb jumps right behind Xacara

The marlin is raised by crane

The scale reads 912.0 lbs

Marcello stands beside the 912 lb marlin

Mate Siso and Capt Filipe Goulart

The Yeti’s early morning coffee

Helmut Nanz, wife Britta, brother Sebastian and the crew

SteveO watches the lures

The bite – note coil of line as it is released from the clip

Sean takes the rod…

…and gets into the chair while Steve clears the other rods

Sean’s 450 lbs blue marlin

Capt Ian “Yeti” Carter and Sean Mason

Stuart’s fight - 180 lb rods can bend

Steve gets the leader…

…the 750 lb marlin wins that battle

... and tries to jump free of the hooks

Steve gets the leader again…

…but she's not ready to give up yet

Almost an hour into the fight and Stuart is sweating!

SteveO gets the leader again…

…the marlin loses the fight. The line is looped around the body and hooks back on itself.

Satisfaction

The strike!

Helmut Nanz at work

Steve gets the leader

Steve gets stretched!

Battle of wills

Down she goes again

On the move again

Not done yet

Almost there

Steve wins!

950 lbs plus

Helmut Nanz – Happy Angler

Jim Graham fights a 980 lb blue marlin

980 lb blue marlin

980 lb blue marlin, it looks so small in the water...

...but here is the same fish being weighed

450 lb blue marlin

450 lb blue marlin

Released!

450 lb blue marlin

Ian Thorpe with spearfish

Jon Lewis-Bowen with dorado

Steve with dorado

SteveO

Ready to go

Kees is back!

3 generations of the Zambetti family – Mario, Michael and John

The sport fishing fleet

Nev Depree’s birthday cake

Steve got it!

Lynn Depree

Sequence of photos as Mate Jeff Thomas wires a very aggressive 850 lb blue marlin, 27th August 2005

Images of a white marlin after it was released