Plant City woman critically injured by jumping fish
Plant City, Florida - An estimated four foot long sturgeon is to blame for seriously injuring a woman on her family's boat in North Central Florida over the weekend.
April Miller was on the boat traveling along the Suwannee River near the Santa Fe River Friday when witnesses say the fish jumped from the water hitting Miller in the face and upper body.
Miller was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainesville suffering from a broken jaw, and injuries to her face, chest, thighs and knee.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says after getting no reports of sturgeon hitting humans in 2010, this year they already have 11 reports including three from this past weekend. Eight of the strikes resulted in people being injured.
Miller says after the fish hit her, she doesn't remember much about Friday.
"I didn't know what happened. My first thought was a car hit me. My last memory was dry land, I didn't remember being on a boat," said Miller who now faces facial reconstruction surgery. "It's almost like something out of a science fiction horror story. They're all bone."
Scientists are trying to determine whether low water levels in some Florida rivers like the Suwannee might be causing the sturgeon to jump out of the water more frequently.
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"It's almost like something out of a science fiction horror story. They're all bone." Scientists are trying to determine whether low water levels in some Florida rivers like the Suwannee might be causing the sturgeon to jump out of the water more
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“This appears to be a locally significant find,” she said. “We don’t have preserved examples of these in Florida, but we know they existed from photographs in the state archives.” None of those photographs are of steam launches on the Escambia or other rivers in the area.
Archeologists were make plans Monday to document and preserve the vessel that now sits on a sandbar near a McDavid boat launch. The vessel was discovered and pulled from the river Saturday by a local family — a move Scott-Ireton advises against.
“If you find something, let the experts document it,” she said, adding that removing historical artifacts from Florida’s rivers may Some one who want’s to complain about them removing the the boat from the river is crazy!!! Do you honestly think the state of Florida would have paid the repair bill on their boat if they had hit it and damaged their personal boat just because this may be a historic artifact. If you think this way I got some ocean front property for sale in Arizona also I totally agree with Swamp Man. My first thought was that it came down stream somehow from somewhere. It has been lower in that area, and probably could have been seen earlier than this. I run up on something on the river (which anyone who goes to the river normally does) it is not your first thought “OMG, I can’t try to pull this up, or whatever, because it may be from the 1800’s” LOL. Get real. We have people in our local Historical Society who remember a paddle wheel in the river in Molino – they boarded it! Thomas Cooper had a steam tug around the 1840’s and moved logs down to Pensacola using it. The river was deeper then and even my grandfather (born in the 1880’s) complained many times how the river had gotten more shallow because of the logging and sediments filling in the river – now the EPA says all of that is nature. Bull!!! It needs dredging now. Many articafts including canoes are in that river. And guns. i think that the boat is an interesting find but how could anyone have known what the boat was it could of been a homemade fishing boat or anything as far as a crime i have been running the river my whole life and ive never seen a sign or posting that said do not remove old wood boat from water and as far as people saying there could have been other stuff around the boat .
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