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Giant Grouper Wins Tug-of-War with Diver

Remember, when you enter the ocean, you enter the food chain:

The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet (7.5 metres) of water off the lower Florida Keys on Saturday and speared a Goliath Grouper, Monroe County Sheriff’s Detective Mark Coleman said.

“It looks like the fish wrapped the line attached to the spear around the victim’s wrist. The fish then went into a hole in a coral rock, effectively pinning the man to the bottom of the ocean,” Coleman said in a news release.

h/t to Blue Crab Boulevard

Last month, another fisher was speared out of his boat by a 14-foot marlin:

“In one motion, the fish flew across the cockpit and took him out of the boat,” Alan Card said. “He landed about 15 feet away. He was under water and had his arms wrapped round the fish as it was pushing him under.”

Discussion

5 comments for “Giant Grouper Wins Tug-of-War with Diver”

  1. Damn, nature is getting angry.

    Posted by Preston | September 12, 2006, 12:36 pm
  2. It must be Bush’s fault lol

    Posted by dianne | September 12, 2006, 12:46 pm
  3. I’m glad I don’t like grouper.

    Posted by kw | September 12, 2006, 1:00 pm
  4. It must be Bush’s fault lol

    Don’t forget Clinton… and her husband.

    Posted by Preston | September 12, 2006, 1:21 pm
  5. hahah! Thanks, Preston. I just snotted!

    (TMI, I know)

    Posted by kw | September 12, 2006, 2:48 pm

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