LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A deckhand on a charter boat full of school children choked to death on a bait fish he had put in his mouth as a joke.
Captain Dan Salas of the boat Gale Force said Tuesday his employee Jeff Twaddle died during a fishing trip for the students last week along breakwater in Long Beach.
Salas called it a "tragic freak accident." Fire Battalion Chief Battalion Chief Frank Hayes says the 54-year-old longtime fisherman was "trying to be lighthearted and make the students laugh when he put the fish in his mouth."
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A deckhand on a charter boat full of school children choked to death on a bait fish he had put in his mouth as a joke.
Captain Dan Salas of the boat Gale Force said Tuesday his employee Jeff Twaddle died during a fishing trip for the students last week along breakwater in Long Beach.
Salas called it a "tragic freak accident." Fire Battalion Chief Battalion Chief Frank Hayes says the 54-year-old longtime fisherman was "trying to be lighthearted and make the students laugh when he put the fish in his mouth."
