Ocean City, MD

[Steve_C]

It doesn't. It's hard to imagine, however, how you shoot yourself in the head underwater.

Climbing in or out of the boat with a loaded gun?

Sticking loaded gun under your arm while using hands to handle a fish?

Perhaps passing a loaded gun up/down to buddy in the boat and passing it butt end first?

Don't know about spear guns but used to do some land based hunting and more than one hunter has shot themselves. It almost always is not being safe with a loaded gun.

"
Texas man accidentally shoots himself in jaw trying to kill armadillo
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[Landlocked123]

The reports I found did not give the name of the injured nor the specifics of how it happened.

 

[Landlocked123]

I grew up spear fishing in my teen years (free diving). One day while I was charging my mares pneumatic gun the shaft slipped and shot out of the water (I was floating at the surface).. as it flew out I grabbed the line with my hand which proceeded to cut my hand ..luckily though the shaft did not strike one of my friends who was about 4-5 feet away on the rocks getting ready to jump in. Those things have some serious power. Needless to say since that day I took extra precautions while loading it.

 

[RyanT]

@Steve_C, I used to do a lot of spearfishing (I've since given it up). We had a simple rule, guns are never loaded on the boat or while entering and exiting the water. Only one of us ever got shot with their own spear. In this case, a friend of mine shot an amberjack. The spear point exited the other side of the fish. It swam in a big circle and then rammed the spear point into my friend's butt. He wasn't amused, but we sure got a laugh out of it!

 

[Landlocked123]

Just saw an update on Fox News online. Man is in critical condition.

 

[Steelyeyes]

Just saw an update on Fox News online. Man is in critical condition.