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IRiSHMaFIA
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:20 pm    Post subject: Mother nature getting Even? Reply with quote

Fish are fighting back! lol Vegas has posted an article about a fish empaling a man and now this. I see a trend happening! (jaws theme playing in the distance) Razz

Jumping sturgeon whacks jet-skier

WILDWOOD, Florida (AP) -- A man riding a personal watercraft was injured after a 4-foot-long sturgeon jumped out of the water and hit him, wildlife officials said.

Blake Nicholas Fessenden, 23, was heading north on the Suwannee River on Sunday when he was hit and fell off the craft, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Fessenden was knocked unconscious.

His girlfriend was riding another watercraft behind him and was able to get to Fessenden and hold his head above water before passengers on another vessel arrived to pull him from the water, officials said.

He was airlifted to a Gainesville hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

A 31-year-old woman was hospitalized in April after a 3-foot-long sturgeon jumped into a boat being driven by the woman's fiance. The pair was also on the Suwannee River.

Officials at the time said similar accidents occur once or twice a year on the river and that the fish can jump as high as 8 feet in the air and can weigh up to 200 pounds.


The sturgeon in this file photo was 6 feet 2 inches long and weighed 138 pounds.
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maycm
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this is a fishy equivelent of Bungee jumping, or cliff diving?
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Gasman59
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fish have to have fun too !!
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rabidplaty



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is what happens when fish watch Death Race 2000. agree
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