Scuba Diver Miraculously Survives After Having Shot Himself With Speargun Mistakenly

This is an abiding truth that nothing can happen beyond god’s will. In an incident which could have claimed his life, a priest who had accidentally shot himself through the head with a speargun while Scuba diving, survived. Regardless of a three-foot dart impaling his head, he is hale and hearty now.

The arrow traveled through his right cheek making an exit by his left ear, but leaving both his brain and eyes unharmed.

The Priest who identified himself as Connie Hallowell from Umkomaas, in South Africa, deemed this escape as a miracle. The tragic incident happened as he was spearfishing in the sea along the Scottburgh Beach, south of Durban, on Saturday.

The 48-year-old father of two, who is receiving treatment in a hospital in Pietermaritzburg, revealed to the country’s Sunday Tribune, “ I put my gun down while I was trying to get some sinkers out of the rocks,” The Independent reported.

“A big wave came, and with that wave in action, I tried to remove the gun, and the trigger went off and fired the spear into my face,” he added.

He reportedly said, “When I tried to move my head, I couldn’t, and I realised it was a spear. I managed to stand up, and I just thought let me stay awake. I screamed for people to help me while I walked back towards the shore.”

The injured man swam towards the dry land where the lifeguards came to his rescue and treated him by cutting down the inserted projectile with the help of an angle grinder. He was then airlifted to a hospital for further treatment.

After doctors successfully removed the spear from his head, he said- “I can see, I can talk, and everything is going well. I’ve got a bit of numbness, but I will be much better. It’s amazing that I am here at all.”

Hallowell made it clear that he wouldn’t quit spearfishing and he is already planning his next trip.