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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/...aii-ocean/

EXCERPT: [...] The man [...] died after being impaled in the chest by a swordfish he had just speared. [...] "Normally, you wouldn't see a swordfish swimming around in the harbor," Dewar says. These are open-ocean animals that are more often found over deep water. Dewar isn't sure what this particular swordfish was doing in such shallow water when it struck Lane. [...] Experts also aren't sure why the swordfish struck [...the man...], but "it was probably a defensive behavior," says Philip Motta, a fish biologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.....