Posted on 05/30/2015 12:05:35 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Hawaii Island police report that a 47-year-old fisherman died Friday in Kailua-Kona during a fishing accident.
Responding to a 10:48 a.m. call, police learned that a swordfish had been observed in Honokohau Harbor and that fisherman Randy Llanes of Kailua-Kona had jumped into the water with a spear gun. The fish was then seen thrashing about, leaving a puncture wound to the man’s upper chest.
Hawaii County Fire Department personnel responded to the scene and attempted CPR. They took Llanes to Kona Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:30 a.m.
Acting Sgt. David Matsushima of the Kona patrol said that after the fish got hit with Llanes’ spear, “the fish got wrapped around a mooring anchor, came back and swam at him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at khon2.com ...
Well there's also a hundred pounds of angry fish behind it...
Eat more fish! It’s good for your health! (Well, maybe not;)
You need to zoom-in. Click on picture.
Pretty amazing pic here:
Looks good, though I’d swap the sprouts for string beans.
694-pound swordfish caught off Florida coast:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/gallery/700-pound-swordfish/index.html
Good thing he wasn’t catching a narwhal.
So who gets to eat the fish? The pallbearers?
Ever seen a Marlin in a boat?
“The narwhal ... is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large “tusk” from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia.
It is one of two living species of whale in the Monodontidae family, along with the beluga whale. The narwhal males are distinguished by a long, straight, helical tusk, which is an elongated upper left canine. The narwhal was one of many species described by Carolus Linnaeus in his publication Systema Naturae in 1758.
Like the beluga, narwhals are medium-sized whales. For both sexes, excluding the male’s tusk, the total body size can range from 3.95 to 5.5 metres (13.0 to 18.0 feet); the males are slightly larger than the females. The average weight of an adult narwhal is 800 to 1,600 kilograms (1,800 to 3,500 pounds). At around 11 to 13 years old, the males become sexually mature; females become sexually mature at about 5 to 8 years old. Narwhals do not have a dorsal fin, and their neck vertebrae are jointed like those of other mammals, not fused as in dolphins and most whales.
Found primarily in Canadian Arctic and Greenlandic and Russian waters, the narwhal is a uniquely specialized Arctic predator. In winter, it feeds on benthic prey, mostly flatfish, under dense pack ice. During the summer, narwhals mostly eat Arctic cod and Greenland halibut, with other fish such as polar cod making up the remainder of their diet. Each year, they migrate from bays into the ocean as summer comes. In the winter, the male narwhals occasionally dive up to 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) in depth, with dives lasting up to 25 minutes. Narwhals, like most toothed whales, communicate with “clicks”, “whistles”, and “knocks”.
Narwhals can live up to 50 years old. They are often killed by suffocation when the sea ice freezes over. Another cause of fatality, specifically among young whales, is starvation. The current population of the narwhal is about 75,000, so narwhals qualify for Near Threatened under the criterion of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Narwhals have been harvested for over a thousand years by Inuit people in northern Canada and Greenland for meat and ivory, and a regulated subsistence hunt continues. ...”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal
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I believe it may have been more than 100 lbs. A lot more.
Marlin
Who would have known that democrats were under the sea, also.
5 hours to bring in a blue Marlin. White Marlin, not so much. Never killed any of the ones I boated. Nice pictures. Nice memories, Magnificent fishies.
That is how is goes for us peasants.
No ribs?
Story Behind Marlin Sinking Boat
Guests and Crew of Capsized Boat Safe and Sound After Aggressive Marlin Strike
By Newswire
On January 18, one of the West Coast Fishing Club’s offshore marlin boats, Abundancia, capsized in the Gulf of Panama after an angler on board hooked into an extremely aggressive black marlin estimated to weigh more than 500 pounds. All four crew members and guests on board were uninjured and were swiftly pulled from the water by another West Coast Fishing Club vessel operating alongside.
The accident was the result of a rapid and extraordinary series of occurrences which took place within one minute after the fish’s high-speed strike, resulting in consequences that were unavoidable.
“We are relieved to report that the anglers, the captain and crew were all evacuated from the vessel without injury or loss of life, thanks to the quick response by the captain and crew of one of our other boats,” says West Coast Fishing Club vice president Brian Grange. “Our practice has always been to fish within sight or radio contact with a sister vessel, and in this case, one of our other boats was very close by, which enabled an immediate response.”
The marlin was initially spotted by the crew of the West Coast Fishing Club companion boat as it rocketed past on the surface of the water in pursuit of bait being trolled by Abundancia. In anticipation of having a rare opportunity to photograph the actual strike of a prized black marlin, a guest on board the companion boat seized a camera and captured the dramatic sequence of events. Approximately 60 seconds later, the crew went to the aid of the listing vessel and immediately retrieved all passengers.
The angler in the chair at the time that these amazing pictures were taken, Dave Saenz, believes the fish was somewhere between 500 and 600 pounds, and described it as “extremely acrobatic, which certainly adds to the adrenaline rush.” He went on to say that “it all happened so fast, but the memory will last a lifetime.” Saenz has not been put off by the experience – in fact, quite the opposite. He has already booked his next trip to Panama with West Coast Fishing Club.
The West Coast Fishing Club has operated a successful Pacific fishing charter business for 25 years in remote wilderness regions without any incidents involving a boat capsizing or causing serious injury to any crewmembers or guests. “Each year, we put in thousands of hours on the water, and we’ve never had anything even remotely close to this happen before,” says Grange. “We also invest a great deal of money in onboard safety equipment and hundreds of man hours annually to ensure that if something arises, we are prepared to deal with it.”
–– Source: Brian Grange | West Coast Fishing Club
the more complete ‘local’ report :
http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/man-dies-following-swordfish-attack-harbor
this man should have known better .
It was just a little swordfish.....
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