Nineteen-year-old Tonga "Papio" Loumoli was diving at night in Hawaii when a four-foot-long crocodile needlefish sliced him from groin to breastbone.
"As I looked down, all I seen was eyes and teeth," he said. "It drilled me right in the chest. It felt like a missile or a sledgehammer. I said to myself, 'Lord, if it's your will, let it be done.'"
Reader comment:Rufus says: "You probably get a lot of mail, however you got it a bit wrong about the needlefish. The long scar wasn't inflicted by the fish. that was a laparotomy scar. The surgeons would have opened him up to explore his abdomen for bowel damage or haemorrhage. The fish probably made a tiny hole underneath the square gauze bandage. "…eviscerated…from groin to breastbone" was fairly implausible, especially seeing as the scar is razor straight, except where it dodges around his umbilicus (belly button)."
