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A Brit dad died after stubbing his toe on a piece of living coral in an "unlucky" holiday tragedy at a Seaworld-owned resort.<\/p>\n

Keith Clarke had been enjoying a family holiday back in 2009 at Discovery Cove water park in Orlando, Florida, swimming with tropical fish in a pool when he caught his toe on the coral, causing a blood infection.<\/p>\n

The dad-of-two from Sale, Greater Manchester, became so ill after the visit to Discovery Cove that doctors had to amputate his legs when he returned to Manchester.<\/p>\n

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But even this drastic step wasn't enough to save the man's life and he died days later.<\/p>\n

Clarke was diagnosed with haemophilia at the age of two, a disease that causes sufferers to bleed for longer than usual when cut and that "complicated" his blood poisoning, according to an inquest held in Manchester.<\/p>\n

Coroner Nigel Meadows, who recorded a verdict of accidental death, told Mr Clarke's widow, Monica, that her husband had been "essentially unlucky".<\/p>\n

An inquest into the death heard Clarke's toe went purple after he stubbed it on rocks implanted with living coral.<\/p>\n

When he was due to fly back to Manchester three days later, Clarke said he had agonising pain in his shoulder and was sick on the way to the airport.<\/p>\n

When he arrived at the airport he collapsed, and when his nose and lips turned a "white, waxy colour" he was removed from the plane and taken to hospital in Florida, where he was diagnosed with septic shock and organ failure and admitted to intensive care.<\/p>\n

His wife noticed his shoulder had gone a "black, morbid" colour and his back had "purple swirls beneath the skin."<\/p>\n

Clarke was soon flown back to the UK by air ambulance, where doctors at Wythenshawe Hospital had to amputate his legs below the knee.<\/p>\n

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