Marlin Wins.

Fishermen battling a massive black marlin off the coast of Panama took a turn for the worse when the fighting fish appeared to sink their boat.

Seen in a shocking sequence of photos capturing the event on Thursday, the boat teeters toward the hooked marlin splashing above the waves before gradually capsizing and vanishing in the deep.

As both astonishing and affirming as the pictures appear, that this single marlin surely out took an entire boat and its crew, the boat’s alleged manufacturer close to those involved explains otherwise.

It was allegedly a captain’s error that submerged the ship following a rogue wave that knocked him off balance, the source wrote with Marlin Magazine’s photo of the incident on their Facebook wall.

The manufacturer was quick to defend the ship’s strength and performance writing that the boat has previously captured ‘hundreds of Marlin without issue or concern.

Flawless Victory.