When sea creatures attack!

[albiealert]

Here are the latest stories, a 375 lb mako or 300 lb ray jumping into the boat would cause me to soil my pants.



While Bronx Zoo cobra captivates a nation, sea beasts quietly attack


By Brett Michael Dykes – Wed Mar 30, 12:05 pm ET
While the nation has been captivated by the escaped Bronx Zoo cobra and perhaps the first Twitter feed written by an adolescent snake, other wild beasts are out there wreaking real havoc on humans.
The cobra's only concern with people seems to be keeping its distance. As far as we know, it has yet to even strike one of New York City's millions of giant rats. But at sea, the animal and man interactions are mounting. For starters, there's the 375-pound mako shark that recently plopped itself right into a Texas man's boat while he and a few others were fishing for red snapper. According to GrindTV.com, Jason Kresse was dumping a load of fish guts into the water in the wee hours of the morn (has the man not seen "Jaws?") when he heard serious splashing coming closer.
"I looked up and 15 feet up in the air is a big-old shark," Kresse told GrindTV. "It ended up landing in the back of my boat."
Kresse said he plans to mount the shark, which had to be removed from his boat by a forklift.
Then there was the wild encounter Jenny Hausch had when she, her husband and three children chartered a boat through Two Chicks Charters to explore the Florida Keys.
"These eagle rays, they were flying through the air," Kelly Klein of Two Chicks Charters told CNN. "These giant things go out of the water and slam back down."



Hausch had pulled out her camera to take some pictures of the flying spotted eagle rays when suddenly one rocketed out of the water in her direction. "It hit me square in the chest. I fell backwards and fell down," Hausch told CNN.
The 8 foot long, roughly 300-pound ray then started thrashing around on top of her. After a minor grappling match, Hausch managed to fight her way out from underneath. "I was freaked out," her young daughter Delaney said about watching her mother tangle with the sea creature. Luckily Hausch wasn't hurt--a similar incident resulted in a woman's death in 2008--and now has a story, some might say, to surpass that of one missing cobra.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...quietly-attack

[ledhead36]

"Her family watched stunned, not believing whatwas happening to her"

Where was her husband when this was happening. Cowering in a corner? Way to go to let your wife be smashed by a ray, guy.

[surferman]

Maybe they were all paralyzed by fear.

[stormchaser]

Or his wife is the one who wears the pants in that family.

[cowherder]

Crazy stuff.

[dogfish]

Going out to where rays jump out of the water and playing russian roulette on the chance they won't jump in the boat. Might as well swim with makos and throw some buckets of bloody chum overboard for good measure.

[storminsteve]

shark attacks man on honeymoon.
They apologized for the profanity? My words would have been a lot worse.

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

[ledhead36]

What do you think of these guys re-feeding a half eaten tarpon to a 14 foot hammerhead?
Brave, or "you can't fix it" stupid?