Turtle Attack!?

[sandjeep]

I was not sure where to post this, but here it is

http://www.local6.com/news/9662353/detail.html

Not much information and not sure if the person was diving or not. I hope more news follows.

 

[Jason Ooi]

Thanks you for the news

 

[dive_lover88]

1st time i heard of this...hope he's alright.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Wow!

 

[_Bella_]

Wow indeed!?!? :11:

 

[spankey]

wow, how the hell does that happen, mmmmmmmmmmm. some people should just stay away from the water.

 

[Mafiaman]

Two summers ago I had a tutrtle charge me off of Islamorada, My friend the boat Capt. told me it happends during the mating season.
I shoed him off by jabbing at him with my camera(Came no where close to hitting him) and got two good shots of him! scary none the less.

 

[wilkie]

Now that's a new one! I'm going to keep an eye on this thread for details.....

 

[stevetim]

If you get a chance to see a Loggerhead underwater you'll see why this may have happened. I saw one so big it reminded me of a VW beetle with a huge beak. It swam perpendicular to me, then took a turn towards me and I got nervous. It just cruised by, but in all seriousness, I am more fearful of a turtle that big than seeing a Bull Shark.
Hope the guy is OK considering he was trying to help the turtles survive.

 

[Thalassamania]

I heard of a case in Monterey, back in the 1960s, where two fisherman almost died after a loggerhead demolished the rowboat they were in.