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From Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114004,00.html):
Sea Lion Finds Out Man Doesn't Taste Like Fish
Friday, March 12, 2004
An Alaska man took an unexpected swim Tuesday, thanks to a sea lion that clamped onto his rear and dragged him underwater.
Ray Dushkin Jr., 19, was bending over on a fishing boat when the sea lion leaped out of the water in King Cove, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula that extends southwest into the Pacific, reports the Anchorage Daily News.
"I heard an obscenity and then a splash," crew member Henry Roehl told the paper.
The monstrous marine carnivore, estimated at 12 feet long and 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, may have had as much as a 10-to-1 weight advantage over the 5-foot-9, 150-pound Dushkin.
"One shot," Dushkin said. "It happened so fast, I forgot what I was doing."
He was underwater for only a few seconds before the sea lion (search) decided Dushkin wasn't a fish. His only injury was an inch-and-a-half scrape on his left buttock, but his coveralls and pants were bitten through.
Dushkin had "a big hole in his Carhartts (search)," laughed Roehl. "Right on his derriere. Lucky he wears baggy pants or I'm sure that sea lion would have taken a chunk of his (butt)."
The young man's father, Ray Dushkin Sr., was less amused.
"The only thing I was thinking is," said the elder Dushkin, "'That sea lion was taking off with my boy, and I'll never see him again.'"
The involuntary swimmer's reaction was mixed.
"Pretty much everybody's kind of laughing," said the younger Dushkin. "It was kind of scary."
Sea Lion Finds Out Man Doesn't Taste Like Fish
Friday, March 12, 2004
An Alaska man took an unexpected swim Tuesday, thanks to a sea lion that clamped onto his rear and dragged him underwater.
Ray Dushkin Jr., 19, was bending over on a fishing boat when the sea lion leaped out of the water in King Cove, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula that extends southwest into the Pacific, reports the Anchorage Daily News.
"I heard an obscenity and then a splash," crew member Henry Roehl told the paper.
The monstrous marine carnivore, estimated at 12 feet long and 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, may have had as much as a 10-to-1 weight advantage over the 5-foot-9, 150-pound Dushkin.
"One shot," Dushkin said. "It happened so fast, I forgot what I was doing."
He was underwater for only a few seconds before the sea lion (search) decided Dushkin wasn't a fish. His only injury was an inch-and-a-half scrape on his left buttock, but his coveralls and pants were bitten through.
Dushkin had "a big hole in his Carhartts (search)," laughed Roehl. "Right on his derriere. Lucky he wears baggy pants or I'm sure that sea lion would have taken a chunk of his (butt)."
The young man's father, Ray Dushkin Sr., was less amused.
"The only thing I was thinking is," said the elder Dushkin, "'That sea lion was taking off with my boy, and I'll never see him again.'"
The involuntary swimmer's reaction was mixed.
"Pretty much everybody's kind of laughing," said the younger Dushkin. "It was kind of scary."
