350lb marlin comes *this* close to skewering fisherman

Whoah.

An angler aboard the Marlin Darlin', fishing out of St. Thomas in the Dominican Republic, hooks into a 350lb blue marlin last Thursday morning.

If you're not familiar with the blue marlin, it's one of those really big and really fast fish, with a long, pointy and pretty mean-looking sword on the business end.

It's exactly the kind of fish you don't want to leap the gunwhales and comes straight for you at a rate of knots.

Which is exactly what happens.

(Beecher Jacobsen via YouTube)

That. Was. Close.