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Beware of the Hand-Biting Barracudas

from the October, 2012 issue of Undercurrent  

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Thomas Goreau, president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, wrote a guest post for our blog last year, entitled "Barracuda Attack," about his encounter with an infamous barracuda near Cozumel that took off his little finger and the side of his hand (read it at www.undercurrent.org/blog/2011/01/04/barracuda-attack ). His tale got plenty of reads, and other Undercurrent subscribers posted their own barracuda stories. The most recent was written by Adriana Ingrid Diez (Buenos Aires, Argentina), who came face to face last month with another barracuda hanging out in a popular dive site that also likes to go for the hands. Here's her story:...