Hawaii Island man dies after being impaled by swordfish

KHON ^ | 5-30-2015 | KHON

[Lurker]

Beat me to it. Funny movie.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

...Swimming in the ocean
Causing a commotion
because they are so awesome!

[Joe Boucher]

I was offshore Fort Pierce, Florida and hooked a big Sailfish that made a run and jumped aboard trying to spear me. I dodged him and he went in to the fish locker.

[tcrlaf]

10 hours of “Narwhals, Narwhals”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbby9coDRCk

Good luck getting that out of your head.

[Kickass Conservative]

Sounds like he was playing Tether Swordfish, and lost.

Perhaps Bill Maher will use this incident for his next Halloween Costume.

[Charles Martel]

Seems like every few years, some fisherman gets skewered by a large billfish. This one is the first death I can recall, though. Back in 2006, something similar happened where a Marlin leaped *over* the boat, speared the fisherman through his upper chest (shoulder / collarbone area) and swept him over the far railing, into the water. That fisherman lived, I believe.

There was a thread here about it, I suspect that searching "fisherman impaled" would call it up.

[bestintxas]

“
that was one vengeful fish.”

How about a vengeful leopard.

http://africafreak.com/blog/the-revenge-of-the-leopard/

[doorgunner69]

It does not pay to piss off a large kitty. They haz weapons and are not afraid to use them.

[Yaelle]

Yeah, swordfish is one of the fish the rabbis debated and debated over. I can’t remember the details. But clearly they have a mean streak!

[doorgunner69]

Another news source that has a short video of the fish in question. Fish seems agitated, likely as it is a deep water creature and found itself lost in the shallow harbor.

Swordfish

[hal ogen]

Just don’t eat the sword of a swordfish through your chest.

[ExCTCitizen]

New movie for 'Jaws' fans: Swordfish...

Outline for movie by Hollywood: A swordfish that is upset at conservatives who are denying global warming attacks people, including the Greenpeace ship, a PETA spokesperson who was speaking out at a beach when the fish attacks and the Obamas.

Oops, it's Hollywood, so it would be people who are kooks portrayed as conservatives.

[ExCTCitizen]

But I’ve seen a Marlin towing a boat...(remember the AMC Marlin?).

[Newtoidaho]

Looks like they needed a bigger boat.

[ETL]

[Jeff Chandler]

He died with a smile on his face and a fish in his heart.

[Ditter]

I never caught a Swordfish but I did catch a Blue Marlin, It would have no trouble penetrating a human body.

[ETL]

[Delta 21]

Sometimes you catch fish. Sometimes the fish cathes you.

[ETL]

Wow. Lol.