Friday, August 11, 2006

Wow. News of the weird, indeed.

This is freaky --

Man Missing After Pulled Into Ocean By Turtle:

A graduate student from the University of Central Florida is missing after he was pulled underwater by a large sea turtle, according to Local 6 News.

The student was apparently tagging turtles as part of a UCF research project.

"The person was onboard a Boston Whaler with other students when a large turtle pulled the victim underwater," Local 6's Bob Frier said.

I hope they find the guy. Man, that would be a tough way to go. It must've been some kind of turtle. If I was one of those other graduate students who witnessed this, I would be rethinking my career choice.

2 comments:

Patrick Armstrong said...

I will never make fun of the University of Maryland's mascot again.

Any word on them finding this guy?

RightOnPeachtree said...

I haven't heard anything else about it. Those turtles do get very big. Maybe this guy just got his hand caught on the shell or something like that. That's a rough way to go out, though.