A woman on a fishing trip off the coast of Florida was gored and seriously injured by a 100-pound sailfish. It all happened when two other passengers aboard the boat tried to reel in the fish they were hooking.
As the US weekly “People” reports on its website, after being hooked, the fish appeared to “rush toward the boat,” police quoted statements from the boat’s other two occupants, Louis Toth and Dominic Bellezza. She didn’t have time to respond because “it all happened so fast,” said 73-year-old Maryland-born Katherine Perkins.
Perkins was impaled on the sword-like elongated rostrum (the pointed, beak-shaped appendage on the sailfish’s skull) as the animal shot out of the water at high speed. She was hit in the groin. The two men stopped the bleeding, according to NBC broadcaster, Perkins was transported to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital after emergency care.
CNN reported, citing a hospital spokesperson, that given the circumstances, the woman was doing quite well on Sunday. The accident happened Tuesday morning, but was not known until Sunday.
Animals can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h
The sailfish is a large predatory fish in the open ocean that occurs almost worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions. Typical of the animals is the large sail-like dorsal fin, to which they also gave their name. According to “National Geographic”, sailfish can reach a top speed of 75 to 100 km/h and are therefore among the fastest fish of all.
Source: Krone
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