One in the eye from Red Sea jaws

AFTER swimming in the

Red Sea, a man developed a mysterious droopy eye.

The 52-year-old sought medical help about a month later and a scan revealed a small lump had formed in his eyelid. But when doctors operated to remove it, they found two transparent tubes, each roughly an inch long.

Biologists later confirmed the reason for his droopy eye – a fish bone, specifically, the jawbones of a halfbeak – a common fish in the Red Sea.

They probably became embedded in the German’s superior rectus – the muscle that moves the eye upwards – when he collided with the fish. He made a full recovery.