Oz fisherman survives after battling with 4m crocodile for 15 minutes
March 10th, 2011 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Mar 10 (ANI): A fisherman in Australia has escaped death after he battled with a 4m crocodile for 15 minutes to free himself from the animal’s jaws before help arrived.
Todd Bairstow, 28, a Rio Tinto bauxite mineworker, was fishing on the banks of Trunding Creek near the Albatross Hotel when the huge crocodile lunged out of the water.
Bairstow reportedly told Weipa Hospital staff that he held on to mangroves and punched the animal with bare fists “for about 15 minutes” before locals heard his cries and ran to his aid to help drag him to safety.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service flew Bairstow, who was suffering extensive lower limb lacerations, cuts to his hands, a broken leg and dislocated joints, to Cairns.
He was taken to Cairns Base Hospital where he is reportedly in a stable condition with the injuries described as non-life threatening.
Bairstow, an avid fisherman, pig hunter and outdoorsman, told friends on Facebook how he was “living the dream”‘ in the wilderness of Cape York where big crocodiles are a familiar sight in creeks and waterways.
“Off to mow down some pigs after shift,” the Daily Telegraph quoted a recent post on his Facebook page as saying. (ANI)
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