Fishermen aboard Clearwater’s Marlin Darlin got quite a surprise Thursday morning when a marlin weighing approximately 350 pounds jumped into their boat off the coast of the Dominican Republic.
Boat owner Bobby Jacobsen shot video of a friend reeling in the huge fish. Then, the unexpected happened. It leaped right into the boat, knocking one of the men over.
Luckily, no one got hurt. The marlin could've impaled someone with its spear-like bill.
"The guys down there are lucky it didn’t hurt one of them," Jacobsen said. "There’s a piece of teak wood around the side of the boat there called the covering board and it put a nice hole about an inch thick and cracked it completely about two feet long. It could have gone through somebody.”
The crew of the Marlin Darlin gave the fish to a local fisherman who was very grateful. It's estimated the fish will feed about 50 people.
The video, posted to YouTube, has already gotten tens of thousands of page views.