Man almost speared by marlin (video)

A video shows the moment a fisherman was nearly speared by a large marlin in Australia.

Conor Cogan was fishing with some friends, Ryan and Peter Constable and skipper Rob Constable, off Port Stephen's in Australia on New Year's Day when the incident occurred.

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The massive fish leaped towards the boat, almost impaling Cogan and nearly knocking them all into the water.

Logan wrote on his Facebook page: "Pretty much as close as it gets."

Speaking to the Newcastle Herald, Conor said: "We had only just hooked up so he was still green and pretty angry.

"He only jumped once and then made this turn, caught the wash and speared straight towards me.

"He did hit me, on the back of my t-shirt there was a layer of marlin slime but not on a scratch on me."

According to Wikipedia, the striped marlin, is actually a small species of marlin found in tropical to temperate Indo-Pacific oceans not far from the surface.

It is a desirable commercial and game fish with a record weight (in 1982) of 190 kg (420lb) and a maximum length of 4.2m (13.8 ft).

The striped marlin is a predator that hunts during the day in the top 100 metres or so of the water column, often near the surface. One of their chief prey is sardines.