Archive for the 'Freak Accidents' Category
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
A trainer was injured during a show Wednesday at SeaWorld Adventure Park after a killer whale grabbed his foot and pulled him underwater twice! The mishap occurred around 5 p.m. when the trainer and the whale were to go underwater as planned. They were to emerge with the trainer jumping off the whale’s nose. But while they were underwater, the whale opened its mouth and grabbed the trainer’s foot holding him underwater. When the whale came up for air, the trainer attempted to calm the whale but it took him down a second time! It eventually let go, and the trainer managed to swim away.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Danny Allen, 34, was pulling in some fishing nets off the South Australian coast on Tuesday night, when a 3 ft stingray struck him in his ribcage. The boat’s skipper sped back to the coast to seek medical attention for his deckhand, who ended up spending the night in hospital. Allen plans to hang the captured ray up in his shed and call it his “lucky wishbone”.
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
A man diving off the Dorset coast was airlifted to hospital after a fishing boat accidentally trawled him up. The man, in his 40s, had been diving at a depth of 46ft when he was snatched up along with the boat’s catch. He suffered a case of the bends but was later discharged.
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
An Egyptian teenager choked to death after a fish entered his mouth as he was swimming. Eighteen-year-old Yasser Ahmad Hussein was swimming in lake Qaroun, southwest of Cairo, when the freak accident occurred. Yasser was celebrating the three-day feast marking the end of the religious fasting month of Ramadan by swimming with his friends in the lake in al-Faiyoum. Medics at the scene failed to resuscitate the youth who died before he reached hospital.
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
A drowning in the waters off of Brunswick County on Sunday left a woman dead. Officials say 27-year-old Holly Melissa Spears died after she fell off the boat and hit her head on the propeller. The driver pulled Spears back onto the boat and drove her body to a marina. He is facing charges, including simple possession of marijuana and operating a boat while impaired. However, investigators say the incident appears to be an accident.
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
When he saw a companion on his boat hook a giant fish during a sea angling contest, Ian Card was delighted until he watched the 14ft blue marlin leap out of the water across the boat and spear him through the chest! The 800lb fish knocked him overboard into the Atlantic and dragged him underwater. He somehow stayed conscious and struggled to pull himself free of the marlin’s 3ft razor-sharp spike and was rescued by his shipmates.
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Wednesday was the first day of lobster mini-season in the Florida Keys and three people have already died while searching for the crustaceans. Lobster mini-season ends at midnight tonight. I would suggest waiting ’til tomorrow before you do any more lobster hunting.
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
A 14-year-old boy survived after being sucked to the bottom of a hotel hot tub, receiving air his father breathed into his mouth for several minutes until he could be pulled out of the water.
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
A fisherman is recovering from surgery after he was speared in the chest and knocked into the Atlantic Ocean by a 14 ft blue marlin during a fishing competition off Bermuda’s coast on Saturday. The dude had just hooked the fish when it suddenly leapt out of the water, speared him just below his collar bone and knocked him into the ocean. Dang!
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