Fishing Crew Protests Disqualification and Loss of $3.5 Million Prize After Their Record Marlin Catch is Deemed "Mutilated"
- A fishing crew called Sensation caught a 619.4-pound blue marlin but was disqualified from winning a $3.5 million prize in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament after officials ruled their catch was "mutilated" by shark bites.
- The captain of the Sensation believes they won the tournament fair and square by following all the rules but the prize was unfairly taken away from them.
- The Sensation crew would have won $3.5 million, the largest payout in the tournament's history, but the prize money instead went to the second-place crew.
- The Sensation crew argues the tournament's mutilation rules are applied arbitrarily and inconsistently, and they lost out on life-changing money as a result.
- The Sensation crew has hired a law firm to help overturn their disqualification in the hopes of still claiming the multimillion-dollar prize.