Woman felled by dolphin attack
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Woman felled by dolphin attack
NZ mammal leapt on board boat
By Chris Williams
Published Wednesday 27th December 2006
RZSL A woman aboard a small pleasure cruiser was seriously injured yesterday by a dolphin which leapt into the craft off the coast of New Zealand.
The 27-year-old was watching the mammals near Slipper Island in the North Island's eastern Bay of Plenty when the attack was made. The dolphin smashed through the boat's windscreen and fell on top of the woman
before flipping overboard again to swim away unharmed.
As well as her injuries, the victim suffered a heart attack before being airlifted to hospital in Aukland. According to The Marlborough Express, she is in intensive care in a "serious condition".
The dolphin apparently hadn't seen the boat as it leapt. A spokesman for Auckland Rescue Helicopters said: "I've never heard of a dolphin hitting someone on a boat. You can't even catch them on lures when you go game fishing. They're too smart." -
first we have sharks, followed by stingrays and now DOLPHINS!?
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Ouch... poor lady... (Luckily it's not a shark...)
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She should thank her lucky stars it ain't a mako shark, mako sharks are known to behead fishermen by jumping out of water and their tails slit right through thier fcuking necks.
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what the...
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hope that you pillows at home do not try to eat u when u sleep....
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Originally posted by nightzip:
I don't know for sure what exactly happened but from this article (without link), i think it is not hard to realise that this sounds more like an unfortunate accident than a deliberate attack by the dolphin.
Woman felled by dolphin attack
NZ mammal leapt on board boat
By Chris Williams
Published Wednesday 27th December 2006
RZSL A woman aboard a small pleasure cruiser was seriously injured yesterday by a dolphin which leapt into the craft off the coast of New Zealand.
The 27-year-old was watching the mammals near Slipper Island in the North Island's eastern Bay of Plenty when the attack was made. The dolphin smashed through the boat's windscreen and fell on top of the woman before flipping overboard again to swim away unharmed.
As well as her injuries, the victim suffered a heart attack before being airlifted to hospital in Aukland. According to The Marlborough Express, she is in intensive care in a "serious condition".
The dolphin apparently hadn't seen the boat as it leapt. A spokesman for Auckland Rescue Helicopters said: "I've never heard of a dolphin hitting someone on a boat. You can't even catch them on lures when you go game fishing. They're too smart."
Assuming that this is a deliberate attack, i think its kind of painful to smash through the boat's windscreen in order to reach the woman then injure her. Imagine the amount of force required.
Secondly, the spokesman from Auckland Rescue Helicopters did said that they never encounter such things before. The article also clearly states that "The dolphin apparently hadn't seen the boat as it leapt" so it is more likely to be an accident than an attack as stated in the title. -
i can forsee a new movie like JAWS...
except maybe on dolphins? -
next case... WOMAN KILLED BY FLYING TORTOISE
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next next case.. woman killed by gold fish..
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maybe its just a 'pat jiao' dolphin.