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Fish kills Florida spear-fishing diver 9-12-06

dmcowen674

No Lifer
The killed kills the killer

9-12-2006 Fish kills Florida spear-fishing diver

A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said Monday.

A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said Monday.

Police divers found the speared fish tightly wedged into the hole, with the man's body still tangled in the line, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Goliath Grouper are the largest members of the sea bass family and can weigh hundreds of pounds.
 
lol, is every fish related-death going to make it to the news now..? Screw 9-11, we now have terrorists in the sea.
 
This is starting to get erie.

I suggest we all adjourn ATOT to re-read Revelations and see what it actually says about creatures of the sea, because I think we've missed something. Something big! :Q
 
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: Armitage
The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys

Does that mean without scuba gear?

Most likely.

Free diving means no SCUBA gear.

EDIT: It was stupid to shoot that fish, you can't eat them when they are that large. They get a lot of worms and parasites in their flesh.

People have been killed before free diving for fish & lobsters. Lobsters will often hide in hide holes where eels are. They have a sybiotic relationship, the eels provide protection for the lobsters. Free divers have reached in for a lobster and been bitten by an eel. If you try to pull your hand out, the eel will bite down harder and gather itself in the hole. You'll drown. One must relax their hand (not pull in panic) and the eel will release it.
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Why the hell didn't he have a knife on him?

Viper GTS

Funny, last time there was a thread about EDC knives the naysayers were making fun of us for carrying knives around. WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?

I for one am not, death isn't funny. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: Armitage
The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys

Does that mean without scuba gear?

Most likely.

Free diving means no SCUBA gear.

EDIT: It was stupid to shoot that fish, you can't eat them when they are that large. They get a lot of worms and parasites in their flesh.

People have been killed before free diving for fish & lobsters. Lobsters will often hide in hide holes where eels are. They have a sybiotic relationship, the eels provide protection for the lobsters. Free divers have reached in for a lobster and been bitten by an eel. If you try to pull your hand out, the eel will bite down harder and gather itself in the hole. You'll drown. One must relax their hand (not pull in panic) and the eel will release it.

have you ever been bitten by an eel? 😕
 
Originally posted by: Armitage
The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys

Does that mean without scuba gear?

Yep.

Done it myself down in the keys when checking out some reefs.

 
hahaha... serves the prick right. It's survival of the fittest and that man wasn't. I love hearing stories about people getting killed while hunting animals.
 
The question is, was it a mutated sea bass? Certainly the laser beams weren't needed for success...although perhaps the sea bass could have survived the encounter.
 
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
The question is, was it a mutated sea bass? Certainly the laser beams weren't needed for success...although perhaps the sea bass could have survived the encounter.

I'd check the area for evidence of Dr. Evil's evil lair.
 
Originally posted by: sinucus
hahaha... serves the prick right. It's survival of the fittest and that man wasn't. I love hearing stories about people getting killed while hunting animals.

Yes because an animals life is so much more valuable than that of a humans. Troll.
 
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