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Fish kills spear-fishing diver

 

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 Monday.

 

The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys 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.

 

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.

 

 

What a horrible way to go.

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Fish kills spear-fishing diver

What a horrible way to go.

 

I agree. Being speared, you mean, right?

 

My sympathies lie with the fish, not the azzhole who tried to take him out. I'm sure that sounds callous, but there's a shortage of large jewfish (= "goliath grouper" in the PC world), but no shortage of azzholes who'd spear every last one of them if given the chance.

I agree. Being speared, you mean, right?

 

My sympathies lie with the fish, not the azzhole who tried to take him out. I'm sure that sounds callous, but there's a shortage of large jewfish (= "goliath grouper" in the PC world), but no shortage of azzholes who'd spear every last one of them if given the chance.

 

 

 

Both.

 

 

I don't quite "get" fishing for fun.

That's why I always carry a knife to cut the line while I'm spear fishing Ridley's Turtles and giant grouper.

 

When I die, I want it to be in a similar funny way. No way this wake and funeral can pass without a couple of his buddies cracking up at him getting his ass kicked by a grouper. I'd expect nothing less from my friends. In fact, I'd like one of them to have the fish mounted* and on display with a small plaque. Maybe next to a picture of me.

 

*taxidermy sickos.

In fact, I'd like one of them to have the fish mounted* and on display with a small plaque. Maybe next to a picture of me.

 

*taxidermy sickos.

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Maybe with a picture of you in its mouth?

Maybe with a picture of you in its mouth?

 

That works, or maybe the fish could holding a spear with my picture impaled on the tip. . .

That works, or maybe the fish could holding a spear with my picture impaled on the tip. . .

Yes, that would also be acceptible.

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Fish kills spear-fishing diver

 

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 Monday.

 

The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet of water off the lower Florida Keys 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.

 

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.

What a horrible way to go.

 

"Kick his ass, Sea Bass!"