Holy flying fish! Giant carp attack university rowing team [View all]

[Surya Gayatri]

Last edited Thu Apr 16, 2015, 07:55 AM - Edit history (1)

GET OFF MY LAKE!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

A morning rowing session turned into an exercise in dodging fish for one university rowing team, when they found themselves being attacked by dozens of flying carp while training on the Creve Coeur Lake in Missouri.

In the footage, the Washington University rowing team were out practicing ahead of the national championships in Florida when the fish frenzy occurred.

While no one was injured, some of the rowers were hit by the frantic fish.

Junior Benjamin Rosenbaum, the captain of the varsity rowing team, filmed the attack and said: “They're huge fish. They hurt when then hit you in the rib cage.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/dozens-of-flying-fish-attack-washington-university-rowing-team-in-extraordinary-video-10180416.html

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Shades of 'The Birds'.

Maybe they're just 'fed up to the gills' with pollution and climate-warmed water.