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Note to Captain Quint: If you’re going to try to land a 20-foot shark, make sure it’s dead first.

Two fisherman hauled in a great white shark that was nearly 20 feet long and weighing almost 2,000 pounds in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez on April 15.

"We were amazed and immediately realized that we had a huge, dead, great white shark, and then we thought what are we going to do?" one of the fisherman, identified as Guadalupe, was quoted as saying in Pisces Sportfishing.

Guadalupe and his fishing buddy, Baltazar, thought they had a net full of small fish when they had difficulty bringing it into their boat, according to a report in International Business Times.

Unable to get it onto their vessel, which was just 22 feet long itself, the pair decided to tow the shark to shore, which took an hour even though they were less than two miles away. After radioing for help, it took 50 people to drag the monster onto the beach.

The pair said they had never seen anything like it during their careers as fishermen.

“We have seen a lot of sharks, in fact this is an area known for sharks, but we have never seen anything like his," one of the fisherman told Pisces SportFishing.

A story about the catch in Outdoor Life compared the shark they netted to the length of a 2012 Chevy Suburban and the combined weight of 10 American males.

On March 13, fishermen in the same area caught a 990-pound shark.

The great white in the movie “Jaws” that swallowed Captain Quint whole only to be killed by Chief Brody was described as being 25-feet long and weighing three tons.

---JOE GREENE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM