AR-News: (U.S. - Ak.) sea lion snatches fisherman

[Mary Finelli]

SEA LION SNATCHES FISHERMAN OFF BOAT IN KING COVE
The Associated Press, March 12, 2004

complete article at:
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2013164,00.html#


Anchorage -- A 19-year-old fisherman is recovering from an encounter with a 
sea lion that leaped out of the water, grabbed him as he worked on his 
grandfather's docked boat and pulled him into the harbor at King Cove in the 
Aleutian Islands. "It happened so fast, I forgot what I was doing," said Ray 
Dushkin Jr., who was not seriously injured in the abduction Tuesday.


Sea lions have been known to jump up on boats and docks but generally not to 
attack people. An incident like Tuesday's happened in April 1987 in Kodiak 
harbor when a fisherman was seized by a sea lion and pulled under for a 
short while.

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