ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: A Brazilian man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally shot himself through the eye with a speargun, lodging a harpoon in his skull for hours before doctors where able to successfully extract the object.<br/> <br />Bruno Coutinho was cleaning his harpoon gun at home on April 14 when he accidentally triggered the apparatus, sending a 15 centimeter (6-inch) harpoon through his left eye and into his cranium.<br/> <br />X-rays showed the instrument passing through the man's eye straight through to the back of his skull.<br/> <br />Somehow, after the accident, Coutinho was coherent and managed to call for help and was taken to Santa Teresa hospital.<br/> <br />It took surgeons four hours and two surgeries to remove the harpoon which had been stuck in Coutinho's head for more than 10 hours.<br/> <br />Coutinho has remained in the intensive care unit, but is expected to be released in coming days.
