Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
609230
A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said on Monday.
66966
By Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 21--DESTIN -- Fishermen are known to tell tales, but this time the truth isn't getting away.
580582
A dentist from Houston, Texas, has died after becoming infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. Dr. Kenneth Dean Creamer, 52, became infected after suffering a cut to his leg while he was fishing near Port O&#39;Connor, on the Gulf coast, according to ...
7862
A North Sea fisherman has netted a gruesome catch: a piece of skull belonging to his missing friend.
395124
"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest just before he died, according to news reports. Irwin's manager John Stainton described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible," according to The Associated Press.
717535
Police say a 38-year-old man was spear-fishing just a few yards from the boat that had brought him and two friends to the reef. His friends heard him screaming and drove the boat to where he was.
108716
Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian  naturalist who won worldwide acclaim as TV's khaki-clad  "Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray barb through the  chest on Monday while diving off the country's northeast coast.
637037
By Jerome Burdi, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 22--Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers Wednesday night found the man who filmed the apparent torture of a state-protected eagle ray last year on the shores of Peanut Island.
458925
"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the Australian naturalist killed by a stingray on Monday, was filmed removing a poisonous barb from his chest just before he died, according to news reports. Irwin's manager John Stainton, who was among the television crew on the reef, described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible," The Associated Press reported.
70448
An underwater tourist attraction that lured several divers to their deaths may have returned, police warn.
366070
By Warren Cornwall, The Seattle Times  Sep. 20--For the third time in five years, a major fish die-off has  struck Puget Sound's beleaguered Hood Canal, adding to evidence that the fjord  remains sick.
313547
By Leigh Woosley, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 5--JENKS -- Few visitors watching stingrays glide through the water  Monday at the Oklahoma Aquarium were aware that the same type of animal had  killed Steve Irwin, the popular and effusive host of the "Crocodile Hunter"  television show.
153448
TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida halted executions on Friday after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
5511
CAPE TOWN -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman yesterday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses and ...
566269
A well-known diver has been killed off the Mendocino coast -- apparently by a great white shark. The headless body of Randall Fry, 50, was recovered Monday in the water near Westport, a day after he was reported missing.
658653
A man diving off the California  coast north of San Francisco was killed in what appears to be a  rare shark attack, officials said on Monday.
666967
An endangered monk seal drowned over the weekend after becoming trapped in an unattended fishing net off Oahu's Makua Beach.