CAIRNS, Nov 16 — An Australian wildlife ranger has recounted his terrifying escape from the clutches of a “particularly cunning” crocodile, after wrestling with the reptile and sticking a finger in its eye. Craig Dickmann, who made a split-second decision to go fishing last Sunday in a remote...
Wildlife ranger Craig Dickmann survives a terrifying attack by a crocodile in remote northern Australia. — AFP pic
“As I've turned to go, the first thing I see is its head just come at me,” he told reporters yesterday from his hospital bed in the town of Cairns in Queensland state.“That noise will haunt me forever I think, the sound of the snap of its jaws,” he said. “Their eyes retract a fair way and when you go down far enough you can feel bone so I pushed as far as I possibly could and then it let go at that point,” Dickmann said.“And then, I think both the croc and I had a moment where we're going, 'well, what do we do now?'”The ranger had skin ripped from his hands and legs in the ordeal and drove more than 45 minutes back to his home before calling emergency services.
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