Brown,
This is scarry news. How do you think it happened ?
Let say he wanted to commit suicide, by shooting his own throat, the gun must be very short or else how long his hand must be to be able to pull the trigger with the tip aiming at his neck ?
Maybe he tried to butt a fish with his gun's butt while the gun is still loaded and it somehow self-fired from the vibration/shock?
I think he tried loading a pneumatic gun, and the plastic loader slipped so, naturally the shaft get launched out. Only pneumatic can have a freak loading accident to this level.
Maybe he has a loaded gun in his hand and he was holding it in the middle and it so happened the spear was pointing at his neck, then it self fire from trigger mechanism failure. The gun must be not too long then. Maybe max at 110cm.
Someone else shot him ?
I am not kidding here, I just want to figure out how this happened. This is realy bad for us spearos. If this happen too often, next thing you know they want to band spearguns. In fact a kitchen knife can do more damage than a speargun.
Many more people get killed by accidental fire arms discharging, sometime while cleaning a gun or kids playing with it. Accidental shooting by fellow hunters occured often too in the field.
Is there a way to find out what actually happened and what type of speargun and brand that is ..... if the accident was result of a speargun mailfunction, I really want to avoid that brand.
IYA