The surprise winner of Bisbee’s Black & Blue Marlin Tournament?

The most lucrative fishing competition in the universe ($4 million in “total purse”), Bisbee’s participants are recreational and professional anglers from around the world — apparently including Norsemen going fishing for shockingly GIGANTIC and potentially dangerous halibuts:

[I]n Tromsø, Norway, fishermen trawling for halibut caught the USS Virginia, a nuclear-powered submarine armed with cruise missiles.

I can’t stop laughing over this, from Harper’s Weekly Review.

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