A 73-year-old woman suffered groin injuries when she was speared by the sharp, long snout of a sailfish that leapt out while some of her friends were fishing for it in a boat off the coast of Florida, U.S., media reported.
Catherine Perkins was injured while preparing to take a picture of the 100-pound fish caught by two of her friends, and the animal jumped out of the water, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
Both fishermen put pressure on the woman’s wound as they returned to shore in the town of Stuart on Florida’s southeast coast.
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The media stated that the event happened on July 19, but only now the news has been released, without further details on the woman’s current health status.
Sailfish (Istiophorus), which inhabit the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, have a sail-shaped dorsal fin in addition to the long front tip and can grow up to three meters long and weigh over 100 kilos.
At short ranges, the metal blue sailfish is the second fastest fish in the ocean after the mako shark, which can swim up to 124 kilometers per hour.
With information from EFE