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09-11-2006, 08:27 PM | #1 |
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Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Sept. 11, 2006, 3:01PM
Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida Reuters News Service MIAMI -- 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. 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. Here's the link http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/4178374.html |
09-11-2006, 08:30 PM | #2 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
You think the FWC wrote him a ticket?
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09-11-2006, 08:31 PM | #3 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Jewfish are a no no...sorry it happened but shouldn't have been shooting it to begin with...although, if they become legal again I'll be first in line.
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09-11-2006, 08:58 PM | #4 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
suxs for all involved
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09-11-2006, 09:01 PM | #5 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
darwin award candidate fer sure..
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09-11-2006, 09:07 PM | #6 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
I feel bad for his family, but what was he thinking?????? I wouldn't tackle something like that while free-diving at least not without a good sized powerhead. Not to mention loosing everything to the F&G boys. I wonder what size it was? Maybe it attacked him? Just doesn't make sense.
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09-11-2006, 09:26 PM | #7 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Our crew was freediving the lower Keys for the past 4 days but no jewfish were speared and everyone is fine.
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09-11-2006, 09:26 PM | #8 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
I might have to change the saying under my avatar to stupid kills ... very sad... been dropping like flys lately, I'll bet he was the dive buddie of the guy on the PWC...
My condolences to the family.
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09-12-2006, 06:58 AM | #9 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
I would guess that he may have shot the fish in self defense.
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09-12-2006, 07:05 AM | #10 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Never ever shoot a jew fish in self defence with a line gun.
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09-12-2006, 07:14 AM | #11 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
if GG ever come up for harvest you wont catch me shooting one with a line gun and no PH. sorry to hear of this mans death I am sure he has loved ones that are in shock over all this.
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09-12-2006, 07:45 AM | #13 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Just one more reason to FREE SHAFT..... no disrespect intended
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09-12-2006, 07:46 AM | #14 |
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Re: Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
Free shaft w/.357, stops attacking GG, why on earth would this guy try to lineshaft a GG while free diving? I have shot big cudas and they pull hard, I cant imagine what a big GG would do. Common sense is the lesson here, and his family has to pay for it
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