Aussie Babe Survives Buaya Attack

[Vulcann]

Not the human kind but the real deal...

 

From The Telegraph:

 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nati...r-1226316880761

 

Woman saved by cruise ship passenger after croc latches onto her legs

By Lisa Quartermain PerthNow April 03, 2012 11:19AM

 

Tara Hawkes suffered severe lacererations and puncture wounds. Picture: Facebook Source: PerthNow

 

A YOUNG woman is recovering in hospital after being bitten on the legs by a saltwater crocodile while swimming from a luxury boat in the Kimberley.

 

A passenger is believed to have pulled Tara Hawkes to safety as she was being attacked just metres from the cruise ship True North.

 

Ms Hawkes, 23, formerly of Busselton, was paddling at Dugong Bay when a 2m crocodile latched on to her legs.

 

Ms Hawkes, an employee of the True North, was pulled back on to the vessel and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Derby. True North has its own helicopter and landing pad.

 

Miss Hawkes suffered lacerations and puncture wounds to her upper legs and is in a stable condition.

 

It is believed she needs further treatment and will be transferred to another hospital by plane.

 

The attack came just two days after father Peter Kurmann was killed by a shark on the same stretch of wA coastline.

 

Dugong Bay is south of Talbot Bay and near Horizontal Falls, near Derby.

 

True North - popular with wealthy tourists and WA locals - was the cruise ship used by American model Jerry Hall and her Perth-based boyfriend Warwick Hemsley on a recent trip to the Kimberley.

 

Ms Hawkes posted pictures of True North on her Facebook page.

 

The vessel, which can carry 36 passengers and has 20 staff, was purpose-built to access remote wilderness areas.

 

Passengers pay thousands a day for a berth - a seven-night Kimberley adventure costs $9000-$14,000 a person.

 

The ship is due to take passengers from Wyndham to the King George Falls this weekend.

[Vulcann]

And you thought the buayas only tackle preys their own size...

 

Check this out:

 

 

 

Guess the new Chinese saying should be:

 

人心不足

[Vega]

That elephant must be thinking "if you have balls, come up to the dry land"!!

[Vulcann]

That elephant must be thinking "if you have balls, come up to the dry land"!!

 

This croc really has a BIG appetite trying to bring down the BIGGEST land animal on earth...

 

But having been the last remaining living dinosaur species when all others were wiped out, it does seem logical buayas are built for survival under the most extreme conditions.

 

So any opportunity that comes along to aid its survival, it will definitely seize the moment.

 

In that sense any living thing big or small comes within striking range, they are fair game even if it is a 5-tonne elephant.

 

 

[Tarzan666]

Poor elephant..the trunk got to hurt from the nasty bite..

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Poor elephant..the trunk got to hurt from the nasty bite..

 

Its the crocodile lucky, if it did release its bite, the elephant would have swing the croc up to the dry land and thats history for the croc....

[2009k]

Stupid crocodile. It can't chew, so why bother to attack anything that it can't swallow? The only logical conclusion is that ego or face is at stake. Maybe the crocodile trying to appear macho to some lady crocodile!

 

[Vulcann]

Poor elephant..the trunk got to hurt from the nasty bite..

 

...& due to the armoured-texture of its skin the poor buaya became bo gay liao

 

 

(Disclaimer: The above is NOT the perpetrator)

 

[laugh]

[Vhtfhwlego]

elephant going to have a bad running nose afterwardss

[Good-Carbuyer]

Sometimes I wonder if Australians are braver than others or could not sense danger. Perhaps these are only the mentally retarded among them. 23 year old maturity?

[Vulcann]

elephant going to have a bad running nose afterwardss

 

... & just before drinking again, it will play safe sure go into the river step step a few times to hopefully make a pan cake out of anything trying to be funny. [laugh]

[Vhtfhwlego]

... & just before drinking again, it will play safe sure go into the river step step a few times to hopefully make a pan cake out of anything trying to be funny. [laugh]

elephants will learn & teach each others...

next time we will see elephants stomping crocs down under ..

 

 

But video cannot let TPL see, she will also improve her stomping technics

Edited April 4, 2012 by Vhtfhwlego

[Vulcann]

Sometimes I wonder if Australians are braver than others or could not sense danger. Perhaps these are only the mentally retarded among them. 23 year old maturity?

 

Bro you gota give it to them for having the b*lls to swim in croc-infested waters. In addition to the mean reptiles, there are also bull sharks lurking in the same freshwater system as well.

 

Bull shark as many know is one of the top man-eaters & is the only shark species able to survive in freshwater.

 

So any bros wanting to have a cool dip inside any river or lake Down Under, please think carefully... [sweatdrop]

[Good-Carbuyer]

Bro you gota give it to them for having the b*lls to swim in croc-infested waters. In addition to the mean reptiles, there are also bull sharks lurking in the same freshwater system as well.

 

Bull shark as many know is one of the top man-eaters & is the only shark species able to survive in freshwater.

 

So any bros wanting to have a cool dip inside any river or lake Down Under, please think carefully... [sweatdrop]

So they are a nation for bravery

[Vulcann]

So they are a nation for bravery

 

Errrrr...their ancestors were not exactly the typical types actually

[Yahgo22]

 

 

 

 

It must be a starving croc.

 

He thought that the elephant trunk is a large sausage.

[Genie47]

You don't call those blokes stuck at Gallipoli "Diggers" for no reason.

[Genie47]

They were crazy enough to charge at Beersheba and they were the first troops to enter Jerusalem in WWI which they thought nothing of it and let good old Lawrence stake the claim with Arab troops being the first.