Grouper Wins Tournament
A Goliath Grouper won the first ever Florida Fisherman Derby by hauling in a 43 year old spear fisherman. This would be a tournament by and for fish, incidentally.
MIAMI (Reuters) – 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 on Monday.
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.
Remember, when you enter the ocean, you enter the food chain.
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