A day practicing one of one's favorite hobbies can end up turning into a real nightmare. If not, tell Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, who began his weekend guiding a group of French people on a scuba dive, his favorite sport, and ended with an impressive wound 22 meters deep. .
The Junts deputy is an expert in diving, and he had the bad luck to encounter a grouper no less than one and a half meters long at the entrance of a tunnel, which did not hesitate to bite him. This is how he explained it himself on Planeta Baja, on TV3, ensuring that the fish entered his arm up to the wrist.
"We had come across many groupers before because it is full and they never attack, this case is exceptional," said the deputy, who explained that at first he avoided the fish, but then "it came face-to-face" and he could not avoid it. For the moment, he can only treat the impressive wound, whose image he has shared on Twitter, to avoid infection.
As the politician explained, it seems that grouper attacks in that area are quite common. What's more, another monitor had told him that he had also had to deal with precisely the same specimen, in the same place.
According to Alonso-Cuevillas, the fish may have approached, attracted by the thread of one of his gloves, thinking it was food. Thus, he stayed there until the animal left him, a minute later.
"I was calm because I know it doesn't have the strength to attack my hand, it's not a shark," he says, although he added that "on the other hand, I was afraid it would hurt some tendon."
As expected, the image has gone viral on the social network, with many of his followers, colleagues and friends concerned about the state of the politician, who has assured that he is fine.
Many ignore it, but there are basically four large fish capable of biting a swimmer in certain special situations: groupers, amberjacks, barracudas and, exceptionally, sharks.
In the case of groupers, especially the largest ones, they usually attack from the bottom up but do not bite, they swallow their prey almost whole, so a very serious and fatal attack by a grouper on a human being would be ruled out. What could cause a grouper bite would be, as in the case of the Junts deputy, the trace of a more or less deep scratch in the event that the fingers entered its mouth.
