Divers return prosthetic leg to man who lost it in American River Giacomo Luca
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John Hovis raft hit rapids, throwing him into the water and nearly drowning him. The 63-year-old said a young man rescued him to safety, but his prosthetic leg was nowhere to be found.
“I knew I was hitting the rapids right there but I didn’t know it was gonna shoot me up out of the water,” Hovis said.
Hovis lost his left leg following a motorcycle crash on April 1, 1980. The prosthetic leg makes it much easier for him to walk, though it’s expensive.
American River Diver Spots Parasitic Vampire Fish That Feed Off Sharks
On 5/20/21 at 11:50 AM EDT
A veteran diver in California has spotted a strange vampire fish, or lamprey, in a Sacramento river.
On Tuesday, diver Karl Bly spotted two pacific lampreys in the American River, which runs for 30 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to where it meets Sacramento River. He wrote on Facebook that this is the second lamprey he has seen in 30 years. It looks like some sea creature from the deep, Bly said.
These jawless, parasitic eel-like fish are characterized by their large sucking disk mouth, which features sharp teeth on a tongue that resembles a file. To feed, they attach their disk to other fish, and grate their scales and skin in order to devour their body fluids. Like leeches, they release an enzyme that stops their victim s blood from clotting. This way of feeding often means the fish they feed on will die due to blood loss or because of infection.
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