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Documentary, River Monsters S09E03 Coral Reef Killer
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00:00I'm Jeremy Wade, explorer, biologist, and aquatic detective.
00:08Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
00:10For 30 years, I've been investigating underwater mysteries,
00:14tracking down fresh and saltwater killers
00:17in some of the most remote corners of the world.
00:23And now, in the tropical waters of Southeast Asia,
00:27reports are surfacing of a mystery creature
00:30that's impaling swimmers and fishermen,
00:33causing gruesome injuries and even death.
00:38The lethal stab wounds and the bizarre ways in which they happened
00:42are like nothing I've ever seen.
00:48Were the victims just in the wrong place at the wrong time?
00:52Or do these waters conceal a coral reef killer?
00:57No!
01:18Over the years, I've come across all sorts of attacks on humans
01:22in fresh and salt water.
01:26Victims lacerated by sharp-toothed monsters,
01:30like sharks, piranhas, and barracudas.
01:35Corpses crushed, suffocated, and drowned
01:39by anacondas and crocodiles.
01:42Casualties slashed open by serrated sawfish.
01:45But this is something very different.
01:50A report from Indonesia has really caught my attention.
01:54Just a few months ago, a woman on vacation was snorkelling on a coral reef
02:02when she was stabbed and killed by an unseen assailant.
02:06And the more I look into this case, the more I uncover.
02:13Similar incidents have occurred elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
02:18Aquatic attacks by a mystery creature.
02:22Each time the victim is impaled,
02:24left with a deep stab wound,
02:27and the end result is serious injury, paralysis, or death.
02:33This new case could be my opportunity to identify and find a killer
02:39that's stalking the reefs of an entire region.
02:42It happened off the coast of Sulawesi,
02:48one of the largest of Indonesia's 17,000 islands.
02:53This corner of the globe is new to me.
02:57I make a 7,500-mile journey into the heart of Equatorial Asia.
03:03It would be easy to be taken in by the beauty,
03:07but I'm here to find a killer.
03:09My destination is Dongala,
03:19a fishing community on the northwest coast
03:22that in season attracts divers and tourists,
03:26drawn to its beaches and pristine reef.
03:32Today, the dusty streets are eerily silent.
03:39This place really is the archetypal tourist paradise.
03:43You've got sunshine all year round,
03:45beautiful sandy beach, palm trees,
03:48and out there is a coral reef just crying out to be snorkeled.
03:53But a sinister shadow is lying over this scene,
03:58and there's a very good chance that the killer is still out there.
04:01A killer in the coral is bad for business,
04:08and for some of the beach merchants, it would be best forgotten.
04:15My persistence eventually gets me directed to Abu Bakar,
04:19who was snorkeling here on the day the most recent victim was attacked.
04:22Can you start by telling me what exactly you saw?
04:30He tells me it was the New Year holiday.
04:33The beach was packed with people enjoying the warm waters.
04:36All of a sudden, he heard screaming and shouting.
04:40A young woman snorkeller had been attacked.
04:43So you were on the beach,
04:45and people are saying it's some kind of fish,
04:46but they don't know what kind.
04:48He directs me towards Aisha,
04:49who rented a snorkel and mask to the victim.
04:50So you heard some kind of shout, some kind of noise.
04:52And you actually went to see what happened, to see if you could help?
04:57What did people imagine were and what did they see?
05:15had happened or what did they see she recalls seeing blood running from the woman's head
05:24the victim was carried from the beach and rushed to hospital
05:34now your head is a pretty solid structure it has to be the main purpose of the skull is to protect
05:39the brain so most of this is thick bone there are a few weak points principally the eye sockets but
05:46the victim would have been wearing one of these and i know that because i spoke to the woman who
05:52hired it to her so her eyes would have been protected the thing is to penetrate this or this
06:00you're going to need serious force serious momentum something seriously sharp all of which suggests
06:06that the perpetrator was a large powerful fish
06:15no one i spoke to saw the attacker i have no idea what potential killers could live in these waters
06:24so close to swimmers if i just arrived at this place without knowing very much
06:30about what happened here i'd be quite looking forward to getting in and having a snorkel around
06:34on top of the coral but uh i have to say that i'm not totally relaxed about getting in the water
06:53right now i'm as vulnerable as the woman who was killed
07:04i'm not seeing anything over a few inches long and none of these fish has the teeth or other weaponry
07:13to smash a hole in someone's head
07:21certainly lots of fish out there but basically uh just small colorful
07:27aquarium fish really exactly what you'd expect to see on a tropical coral reef
07:40i've drawn a blank underwater so i decide to head to the port and speak to the people who know these
07:47waters best the local fishermen
07:50they tell me this is not the only attack that's happened in the area
07:59i'm sent to see an old fisherman known as papa chuchu
08:04everybody here tells me uh you uh attacked can you tell me uh how did that happen
08:09he was out in a small boat called a sampan fishing off the reef with just a hand line
08:24papa chuchu was pulling up tuna when all of a sudden his boat was struck from beneath by a big marlin
08:33so you're fishing for tuna and this marlin just came from nowhere the force of the marlin smashed the
08:43sampan in half and worse as he hit the water papa chuchu realized that he'd been impaled by the
08:51fish's spear-like bill he had to wrench it out of his butter before other fishermen could haul him to safety
08:59do you still have a you still have a scar do you still have a mark oh in here yeah in there and out
09:09here right
09:13well there are definitely marlin in these waters here as papa chuchu knows only too well and what makes
09:19them potentially so dangerous is this you've got this hard elongated pointed bill and behind that you've
09:26got a lot of mass i mean some species you're talking up to over a thousand pounds so you can
09:32have an awful lot of energy concentrated on a fairly small point and in that situation if you happen to
09:38get in the way of that that can end very badly
09:44but marlin are predominantly an open water fish could they really be a threat to swimmers on a beach
09:50i've heard that one type of marlin can frequent shallow water but are they here
10:02to find out i enlist the help of a renowned game fisherman mr hiong
10:12he catches prize-winning marlin on nothing but a hand line
10:15and relishes the challenge of this kind of fishing hand-to-hand combat that takes the rod out of the
10:24equation
10:29i've fished marlin before but uh that's with rod and what we're doing here is uh
10:34it's basically a hand line we've got out riggers to
10:38keep the line spread and we'll have the lures skipping behind the boat
10:43what's going to be interesting is actually getting your fish in on that and a pair of gloves
10:48a hand line transmits a fish's strength in the most direct way possible
10:54with no rod and reel to help me there'll be just a thin line between me and a very powerful running
11:01fish so um ready just a case of uh well waiting but also watching because it's possible we might see
11:08something uh in the moments before one of the lures is taken
11:15marlin hit their prey on the move so we keep the boat at a fast steady speed
11:20for several hours there's nothing in this heat concentration becomes a challenge
11:34but then
11:40lots of hits
11:47I'm in Indonesia, investigating a bizarre case of death by impalement.
12:03I'm out in blue water, fishing for my first suspect, the marlin.
12:09And something big has taken my lure.
12:12Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Go!
12:14No, it's off, it's off. It's off, it's off, it's off, it's off, it's off, it's off, look.
12:18One liter, .
12:21Yeah, that was a fish, that was a fish, that was a big fish.
12:25I don't know what went wrong there, if we didn't accelerate quick enough or what.
12:29When I pull the line in, I see the lure has gone.
12:32Most likely the knot securing it failed.
12:36In theory, that's unbreakable.
12:39I felt that around my hand, the accelerators, basically did everything right, but that shouldn't have happened.
12:46He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he.
12:47It just jumped out there, look at that, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes.
12:51So that is, that's an equipment failure, I think that comes under.
12:55coming so close is frustrating but at least i know that marlin are here now i need to know
13:04which species so i get a line back in the water and eventually we get another chance
13:12we gun the throttle to set the hook
13:22there's just a thin hand line and a pair of gloves between me and this monster fish
13:35once i'm sure the fish is hooked we stop the engines
13:42it's going down it's going down i think we've seen this fish out of the water it's it's a
13:48it's a sizeable fish it's a couple of hundred pounds i'd say easily
13:52this powerful fish is making me question my decision to shun rod and reel
14:02hauling it in is back breaking work and the line is starting to cut through my gloves
14:07i'm getting about a yard of line every every two-handed uh pull
14:22i've not been counting but i'm guessing this took a good 200 yards or so off
14:26i had to let the fish run to avoid snapping the lines but now i have to expend energy to pull all
14:34this line back in the sun is hot and my arm and back muscles are burning
14:41i've almost got the mull into the boat but this is no time to relax many fish can be unpredictable to the
14:52last surprising you with a final burst of energy it's just come off it's just come off
15:07i can't quite believe it at the very last moment of an epic hour-long battle the fishers managed to spit the hook
15:18but all is not lost because i got an id it looked like a black marlin
15:28i saw that thing completely propel itself out of the water eight or nine foot long
15:33and if i'm still in any doubt can these things be dangerous potentially harmful to people well
15:39seeing that thing move at speed uh you know absolutely unlike many open water predators black
15:49marlin are known to come close to shore to feed so i have a suspect but i also have some doubts
16:02back on dry land i return to the scene of the crime
16:05this time i come across dive instructor nazrun were you here on the day when the the woman is
16:17uh is injured in the beach here i was here but i was the inside there where where do they bring her out
16:23this behind behind of a restaurant here yeah the waters it's it's here so this you ever seen marlin
16:31here yeah but it's a little bit far away from the beach but this close no yeah no so do you think
16:36there's any possibility that marlin could could cause this uh no no the first is too shallow yes
16:45on the second it the bar is too big so so so if it was a marlin the injury would be much much bigger
16:51yeah it must must be the head the marlin may have the weaponry but i can't place it at the scene of the crime
17:04so he's absolutely adamant that it wasn't a marlin he's never seen a marlin anywhere near this beach
17:10um the other thing he said is even a small marlin is going to cause much more visible damage if it hits
17:17you in the head so that means i'm looking for something else there's something out there in the
17:26shallows as dangerous as a marlin and i need to find it
17:31i'm in indonesia investigating the gruesome death of a snorkeller just yards from the beach
17:53with no clear suspects i head to the hospital where the victim was treated
18:01i know that the woman was still alive when she was brought to this hospital here and i know that
18:05she had some kind of injury to the head but other than that at the moment i don't really know anything
18:12else perhaps the nature of her injuries will bring me closer to identifying the killer
18:22i managed to track down the nurse who treated her lily norsanti has agreed to talk to me about
18:29the wounds that she treated can you describe the condition of the patient to me when you first saw
18:38she tells me the woman had a bandage over her eye when she was first brought in
18:42and that the stab wound underneath went directly through her eyeball
18:49this is new information but something doesn't add up
18:54how could her eye have been penetrated if she was wearing a snorkeling mask
18:59but if she is injured in the eye i would expect um pieces of plastic also to to cause injuries
19:08what the nurse now tells me could be a key detail
19:12just moments before the attack the woman's husband had called out to beckoning her back to the beach
19:18she lifted her head above the water to respond and in doing so removed her mask exposing her eyes
19:32she really opens things up a lot um it doesn't necessarily mean that it was a large powerful
19:42animal that can fracture the skull that i'm looking for um it could well be something considerably smaller
19:48i may not be looking for a marlin sized fish after all
19:56the nurse tells me that the physician who treated the woman is here too
20:00so i asked dr andy fasihi about his initial assessment of the patient
20:05the fact that it did turn out to be fatal did you have any idea what why um you know what could have
20:12caused it the first possibility is maybe when it attracted the brain and the second possibility is
20:19maybe from the toxin right okay so so it could have just been mechanical damage but going deeper
20:25than the just the eye socket or you say possibly some toxin okay there was no autopsy so an exact
20:36cause of death was not established but i know of one venomous possibility that lives in these waters
20:45the stingray
20:48stingrays are found in both fresh and salt water
20:52and are known to bury themselves in sand as camouflage this makes them a potential menace
20:59underfoot on beaches like the one where the attack took place
21:05but they can also attack while swimming striking with lightning blows if they feel threatened
21:11and swimmers have fallen victim including most famously the tv naturalist steve irwin in 2006.
21:22given what i now know about the victim's wounds i'd like a closer look at the kind of stingray
21:27found in these waters and a discarded catch given to me by a fisherman presents that opportunity
21:36they don't really eat stingray here but they do catch them occasionally and
21:40um someone's caught this bit of line still uh coming out the mouth here
21:50still going to be a little bit careful with this even though it's
21:52it's dead because that is still uh that spine is still sharp and pointed
21:57and the venom is still going to be uh active
22:06a lot of stingrays are actually quite drab colored but some are are pretty bright and
22:10you know this one really pretty is bright blue all over it
22:15in body plan it's it's pretty much generic stingray it's this flattened disc with the tail behind it
22:20uh big eyes here and these holes behind the eyes are that's where that's where it takes in the water to
22:27pass over the gills uh if it did what normal fish do which is take the water in through the mouth
22:33because it's flat to the bottom it's just going to get a mouthful and therefore you know gills full
22:38of sand and mud and all sorts of rubbish so clean water comes in here passes over the gills and then
22:44passes out the gill slits here uh this is the mouth there are teeth but they're very small
22:53not sharp teeth but quite powerful jaws with sort of crushing pads
22:58as for the actual spine though there's actually two there's one long one and one short one the main
23:08spine there that is about uh it's good two inches long so in terms of that injury to the snorkeller
23:19i mean the first thing to say is is that with stingrays normally the injuries to the foot to the ankle if
23:23you're really unlucky to the abdomen for one to strike you in the face not impossible but i think
23:29that would be very very unlikely but in terms of the actual nature and shape of the weapon i think
23:35we are looking at something very very similar to that
23:42if it was one of these spines that stabbed the woman through the eye
23:45then venom could have been the cause of death so is the stingray the killer i'm looking for
23:53to further this line of inquiry i head to sam ratulangi university to track down an expert
24:05professor janny coosin is a marine biologist and an authority on aquatic stings
24:12i do have a picture um which is which is rather shocking but if you i show the professor a photograph
24:19of the victim's wound that i've been asked not to broadcast uh usually if uh which film you know the
24:28correlation of uh the worms is not like this it's more more purple or more grayish or maybe more bluish
24:37but this kind of worms as far as i know not by a phenomenal path of this stingrays
24:45the appearance of the wound you're saying would would probably be different it would be more discolored
24:50because yes yes
24:55enzymes contained in stingray venom would kill tissue cells leading to discoloration
25:02but this wound doesn't show that
25:04so what could have caused it
25:11i'm baffled by this case the most likely culprits aren't holding up to scrutiny
25:22but i'm now hearing about other mysterious stabbing attacks
25:25in a remote community on the other side of the island this guy's actually been hit twice
25:33it actually sunk his boat i'm wondering if there's a link this time it was fatal
25:38my investigation into the gruesome death of a snorkeller off the coast of sulawesi in indonesia has taken a new turn
25:59reports have reached me of similar attacks on a remote community in the waters off the main island
26:05a place rarely visited by outsiders
26:13sampella is no ordinary fishing village
26:19it's a stilted city constructed directly over the reef and completely cut off from the mainland
26:25it's home to the bachow people commonly known as sea gypsies who moved here more than 60 years ago
26:33after centuries living a hard nomadic existence in wooden boats on the open ocean
26:43bachow daily life still revolves around the sea
26:46i'm told this spate of bloody attacks in their watery backyard has sent a wave of terror through the
26:53community
26:56i meet with local fishermen to hear their stories firsthand
27:00uh jeremy i i hear you had um you have a story about a fish a fish that attacked you
27:09this man was out at night in his canoe when all of a sudden a fish leapt from the water
27:15and stabbed him in the thigh
27:17so this happened to you at night in the malam
27:24this is significant
27:27i'm talking to someone who actually saw what attacked him
27:30what was the fish that did this um sorry sorry fish
27:38it's not a name i recognize but he tells me that it was roughly the length of his forearm
27:44so this sort of this this kind of size other fishermen show me evidence of similar attacks
27:51so so where did they they hit
27:58and the second time was was here this guy's actually been hit twice and so
28:05what originally sounded like a an isolated incident i'm just talking to people in this village it's it's
28:10not an uncommon occurrence and this uh it was night time uh malam
28:18again and again i hear of attacks by these fish
28:24the stabbing sounds similar to that of the snorkeller in dongola
28:29but she was attacked in the daytime and these all occurred at night
28:35i'm picking up what feels as if it's um significant information
28:38i've got a name they call this fish ikan sorry it means sorry fish now i don't know what that is but
28:44um this is not a fish that bites it's a fish that stabs and it does that when it jumps out of the water
28:55they don't sound like big fish but it appears the injuries they cause can prove fatal
29:03like the piranha small can be dangerous
29:05i meet new harry whose brother halakang was killed by one of these sorry fish
29:15can you tell me exactly what happened to your brother
29:20he tells me his brother was out fishing one night with his cousin
29:25their boats were side by side and they had just lit their lanterns when a sorry fish jumped out of the
29:32water hitting halakang in the ribs and knocking him into the water
29:39his cousin pulled him out and paddled him back to the village where they looked at the wound
29:46apparently it wasn't a very big wound it wasn't bleeding a lot and he wasn't in a lot of pain
29:52but about an hour after arriving in the village he died
30:01did they see how big this was was this a a big sorry fish
30:06he estimates that the fish was around three feet in length
30:09uh so certain details are different but otherwise this very much fits a pattern uh it was night time
30:17and this fish jumped out of the water and it inflicted a stab wound um one other difference in this case
30:23this time it was fatal
30:27one other thing strikes me all of these attacks occurred after the fishermen had lit their lanterns
30:33i've come across night time collisions with jumping fish before
30:44in nicaragua tarpon jump when they're spooked by light
30:49other predators attack bait fish drawn in by the light
30:53so is light the trigger in sampella i really need to see what this fish is this sorry fish and uh
31:00what i've done i've arranged to meet a couple of fishermen tonight
31:03obviously i'm very anxious not to end up in the firing line myself and normally
31:08if there's a killer in the water i feel fairly safe when i'm in a boat but this is
31:12one occasion when potentially i'm not going to be
31:19we paddle out into the dark ocean in the bajau's handmade wooden canoes
31:24these little boats offer minimal protection from the elements or from anything leaping out of the water
31:36i'm hoping this isn't going to make me a target
31:38as i pan my flashlight across the surface i'm hoping to provoke a response from whatever is out there
31:52i'm on the water with indonesian sea gypsies to find out if bright lights at night can turn the
32:12mysterious sorry fish into a lethal leaping spear
32:25oh there there there there there there there there
32:31i'm seeing stuff in the distance there are small fish jumping out of the water when the when the light
32:37hits fish are reacting to the light but they're heading away not towards me that's like sort of a
32:47panic reaction i think when fish are alarmed they just take off and sometimes that takes them out of the
32:53water but then i see something bigger something there there was something there i jumped there was an arc
33:03and it's about six foot between where it came out of the water and where it went back in
33:15it was a long slender leaping fish and it fits the description of the sorry fish held responsible for
33:23the deadly attacks here
33:24i need a closer look nearby some badchau fishermen are paying out a long gill net
33:38when the circle is closed they will spook the fish into it
33:44so that's the net paid out it's gone out and uh formed a circle and up to this point we've been in stealth mode
33:51but now this is the moment apparently when they start making a bit of noise banging the side of
33:58the boat and crucially also lighting the lanterns and this is when fish could start jumping
34:06normally fish jumping unless they're very big is not a problem um but here from what i've been hearing
34:13there is this other fish this silly fish which it's not an enormous fish but being hit by one of those
34:19flying through the air can be faithful so this is a a moment of mixed emotions curiosity to see what
34:27we get inside the net but a certain amount of trepidation as well
34:38we've got something in the net here
34:39it's not a fish but this could be even more dangerous it's a sea snake it's very characteristic
34:53it's a banded crate this is one of the most venomous snakes there is
34:59and it's about a foot behind me and i'm in a boat that is just so tippy
35:03i'm feeling distinctly uncomfortable he's tearing the the mesh of the net i think he's going to try and
35:10extract it
35:20i'm looking for one potential killer that launches itself into the air so i'm a bit nervous about
35:24anything coming out of the water also falling in the water at any stage is something you really want to
35:30avoid i've been seeing what's you know one of the things that's in the water i must say i'm liking
35:35this particular situation less and less
35:42that's enough close calls for one night
35:45but i got my first sighting of the fish that appears to be responsible for the deaths and injuries
35:50here
35:53and it could be the culprit in the case of the stabbed snorkeller
35:56but i'm left with one nagging question how does a fish reacting to lantern light at night
36:05connect to an attack that happened in broad daylight
36:13back on the main island there's been a development word has gotten out to the family of the snorkeling
36:19victim and they've invited me to join them at a local restaurant
36:25lena hermer one was 39 and the mother of two young boys
36:33her husband benny and his cousin thoroughly were both at the beach the day lena was attacked
36:38i've been walking about 20 meters when i heard people screaming at my back i turned around and saw my wife
36:50being carried by a man
36:54furley tells me she was actually in the water with lena when the tragedy happened
37:00after several hours snorkeling together they were finally heading back towards the shore
37:04suddenly two fish leapt clear of the water one narrowly missed the women the other struck lena in the face
37:17fish that should be at the eye it's blocked anywhere everywhere everywhere it's blocked many many blocks
37:28then benny shows me an item from the scene that he thinks might interest me
37:32lena's necklace and earrings
37:38so she was wearing this
37:42this is potentially a vital clue the missing link between night and day
37:51as sunlight sparkled off this jewelry did it provoke a reaction from the fish just as my flashlight did
37:57i remember a story in botswana where a tiger fish was attracted by the shiny crucifix around a man's neck
38:10it's possible the fish that impaired lena was reacting in the same way
38:14mistaking flashes of light from her jewelry for potential prey
38:17if you're a predator you strike first and ask questions later
38:26whatever the case lena was extremely unlucky
38:35according to her husband the attack happened at five o'clock in the afternoon
38:39reef fish can be habitual feeders so i'm returning to the beach at the same time of day to see if i can find this coral killer
38:52instead of actually fishing in the conventional way i'm thinking of doing a different kind of hunting
38:57i've seen the sorry fish that the sea gypsies hold responsible for the attacks in sampella
39:07and i think it could be the culprit here too
39:12to prove that i first have to place it at the scene of the crime and get a positive id
39:17at first all i see are the same innocent looking fish i witnessed on my previous dive
39:30but then something else flashes into view
39:33i'm on a reef off the coast of sulawesi indonesia on the trail of a coral killer
39:54out of the corner of my eye i catch sight of something i've not seen in these waters before
40:03my underwater camera captures a streamlined fish with a dagger-like snout and a mouth full of teeth
40:14this looks like the fish i saw out on the sampella reef the fish the sea gypsies call sorry
40:23in the daylight i can see that it's what i know as a needle fish
40:28and it's clearly at home here on the reef where the snorkeller was struck
40:38the predatory needle fish can grow to five feet long and those elongated jaws hold as many as 200 teeth
40:48when closed its jaws form a rigid and sharp point like the end of a dagger
40:59it's easy to imagine the damage this fish could do traveling at its top speed of 40 miles an hour
41:08i could be looking at lena's killer but the only way to know for certain if that jaw could pierce a
41:14woman's eye socket is to get my hands on one but there's no way i'll capture this speed demon underwater
41:22the bony jawed needle fish is also tough to hook
41:29oh it is it is it is it is it's a fish here we go
41:45ah
41:48ah that's off i think in a way i might have been lucky just to keep it on that long
41:54the trouble is they got very bony jaws that didn't stay on
42:05with fishing time running out i decide to switch things up
42:09i change boats getting myself lower to the water
42:15and employ a little island ingenuity what the locals do for this fish is they
42:22use this it's just a piece of uh rope that's been unpicked something like a needle fish lots of small
42:30teeth comes along chomps onto that and those teeth just get tangled up in all those strands
42:36eventually something strikes
42:58okay stop stop stop
42:59there's one on here there's one on here taking it very very gently
43:09it's secured only by a tangle of fibers so bringing this fish in is a delicate operation
43:15i'm relying purely on tangle not on hook hold this is a completely different way of playing a fish
43:22it's keeping enough tension
43:32that's a needle fish
43:36i can finally take a good look at this fish's lethal business end
43:41well i've seen these in the water but to see this um
43:45um close up is really something very different
43:53holding this needle fish with its large light sensitive eyes it's easy to imagine how it could
43:59have been drawn to lena's jewelry and startled by the sampella fisherman's lanterns
44:05but i can't take my eyes off that long sharp jaw
44:09if you're a small fish then the the weapons you have to worry about are those needle sharp teeth
44:16but if you're a person uh like the snorkeller uh in the water then it's not so much those teeth
44:22it's the whole snout that becomes the weapon and you just have a very very
44:30small point on the end and even something that size moving at speed through the water
44:35that that is almost like a dagger and there are numerous places in the body where if that went
44:41in just a couple of inches that could be fatal
44:45for me this case is finally closed
44:49the end of one of my most unusual investigations
44:54normally when i'm looking for a fish that can kill a person i'm looking for something big
45:01but not always sometimes small is deadly and the needle fish is a perfect example of this
45:10as always this was a case of somebody being in the wrong place at the wrong time and being almost
45:15unimaginably unlucky the chances of the same thing happening to you or me are almost non-existent so no
45:24need to keep away from the beach but knowing what i know now if i ever see
45:31shoals of small bait fish thronging the shallows perhaps occasionally scattering or jumping out of
45:36the water in response to some unseen threat perhaps that's one time not to get in the water
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