Some fish get away: This grouper has survived a shark attack with ... but the scalpel-like spines of a large surgeonfish that sliced my skin. The shark had the fish in its jaws and was shaking ...

According to the Florida-based International Game Fish Assn., the world record for warsaw grouper stands at 436 pounds, 12 ounces – for a fish caught off Florida in the "Gulf of Mexico” in 1985.