SCREAMED IN AGONY.
Diver Bitten Savagely by Fish. United Press Assn.— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. May 6 Attacked by a mass of leather-jack-ets in forty-five fathoms of water outside Sydney Heads, a diver, named 11. Locke, had his hands badly mauled and was hauled to the surface screaming with agony, with blood pouring from forty-two bites, several being so deep that the bones were exposed. Locke, recounting his experience said: “They came at me from all sides. 2 ne slt:5 lt: J ny hand and as the blood flowed the fish raced for it pell-mell The taste of blood made them more savage, and they rushed at me with amazing fury.”
Leather-jackets are a scaleless fis with very rough skin. They are no large, being usually from twelva t eighteen inches long, and are deej bodied. They are found in New Zea land waters also, but are more plent tul around the North Island.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20298, 7 May 1934, Page 1
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