I’m officially terrified

Of propellor accidents.

So my coworker yesterday told me the story of one Dmitri Tertyshny, a former Philadelphia Flyer who died after he fell overboard a motorboat and got his neck sliced by the engine’s propellor blades. “The boat hit a wave and caused him to fall forward overboard. The boat ran over him and its propeller slashed his neck and his jugular vein.” (My coworker’s kid plays in the same ice hockey league as Tertyshny’s son.)

Since then, I’ve spent the better part of the morning clutching my neck in a protective manner. I came across this website, which terrified me even more. Okay, no more motorboats for me.

Advertisement

4 Responses to I’m officially terrified

  1. when i was little, i think my dad told me that a Beach Boy died in a similar manner and i was scared of motor boats down the shore for a while.

    eek.

  2. Ooh, I need to check that one out. I have such a morbid fascination with the macabre. Thanks!

  3. oh who is your friend’s son? i may know him. i go to the games from time to time.

  4. :)

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s