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Just When You Thought it was Safe to Go Back in the Water

When two fishermen from Puglia, Italy, found a hand grenade, they didn’t turn it over to authorities, they took it fishing. And when they saw some bubbles coming from the deep, they tossed the grenade in the water “hoping to stun fish.” The bubbles weren’t coming from fish, but from Teodoro Zuccaro’s scuba tank. The blast killed the 43-year-old diver. The two fishermen have been charged with manslaughter, detonating an explosive, and poaching. (AP) ...Of course poaching: divers aren’t in season yet.


Publication Date: 14 June 1998

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 4.
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