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Flotsam & Jetsam

from the June, 2012 issue of Undercurrent  

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Cameron Diaz Was, Like, Almost Swallowed by a Grouper. Being a movie star doesn't mean you'll get special treatment by fish if you pet them. While on The Tonight Show last month, Diaz talked about how she decided to get up and close with a Goliath grouper during a Cozumel dive. "It was probably the size of a Volkswagen bug, He has these big old lips and someone said, 'Oh, you should pet him.' I'm rubbing its lip and I'm like, 'Oh my God, this is amazing!' I'm looking into its eyes, we're having this whole moment and all of a sudden, it inhaled and I go flying inside. I'm like inside this fish . . . The only thing that stopped me was literally my neck. And he spit me out, and I'm, like, rolling backwards. So that was really good times."...