See Your Hook And Raise You A Sword
Via TC at Leather Penguin, we have the ultimate fish story. How about going to a fishing tournament only to find out that you're the bait?
When he saw a companion on his boat hook a giant fish during a sea angling contest, Ian Card was delighted.
Next second, the scene of triumph turned to horror - as the 14ft blue marlin leapt out of the water across the vessel and speared Mr Card through the chest with its spiked bill.
The impact of the 800lb fish knocked him overboard into the Atlantic off Bermuda.
Then, with a thrash of its tail and with the 32-year-old still impaled and bleeding profusely, it dragged him underwater.
Terribly injured, he somehow stayed conscious as he struggled to pull himself free of the marlin's 3ft razor-sharp spike before he drowned.
Finally, he wrenched himself away and was rescued by his companions on the boat - who included his 58-year-old father Alan.
Yesterday, he told how his son surfaced with blood pumping from his wound. 'He put his hand up to his chest and his fingers disappeared,' he said. 'He had a wound about as big as your fist.' Mr Card was rushed to hospital, where surgeons carried out an emergency operation and yesterday he was in a stable condition.
But doctors told him that if the marlin's spike had struck a fraction of an inch higher, it would have severed an artery and killed him.
The bizarre accident happened as he and his father took part in an international fishing tournament 15 miles south of Bermuda.
Now, we don't want to be alarmist or anything, but this is a sure sign that the animal uprising is reaching a critical point. It's not news when people go fishing, but it certainly is when fish go peopling. Good thing Mr. Card wasn't water skiing at the time. That would have violated the tournament rules. No trolling allowed.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Saturday, 5 August , 2006 @ 11:41 am
Thanks for the nod, but credit goes to
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Saturday, 5 August , 2006 @ 11:41 am
you ate my HTML!
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Saturday, 5 August , 2006 @ 11:50 am
And a reminder: If you ain’t got webbed feet, don’t be messing around in the deep!
By Gaius, Saturday, 5 August , 2006 @ 11:58 am
I did not. HTML gives me gas. You must have tagged it wrong. But I did link to Black and White World as well as to you, TC.
Just remember: when you enter the ocean, you enter the food chain.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Saturday, 5 August , 2006 @ 2:00 pm
….glub, glub, glub….
By Kermit, Friday, 11 August , 2006 @ 12:53 pm
Just found this link in Technorati. Thanks for the promo.
By Gaius, Friday, 11 August , 2006 @ 12:58 pm
Glad to do it.