Oz Press: Man injured in crocodile attack

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: THE AGE (Melbourne, Australia) 20 November 00 Man injured in crocodile attack : Perth (AAP): A fisherman has survived an attack by a crocodile which leapt a metre out of the water to bite his neck and shoulder as he sat in a boat. : The attack occurred at the weekend as 34-year-old Norman Stanley was fishing with two friends in a five metre boat at the mouth of Cambridge Gulf in Western Australia's remote Kimberley region. : Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) wildlife officer Ben Tannoch said the three-metre long crocodile leapt about a metre out of the water to attack Mr Stanley as he was trying to reel in a fish. : Mr Stanley was bitten on the neck and shoulder and was later treated at Kununurra Hospital for flesh wounds. : The injured man said the attack happened so quickly his fishing companions did not see it. : 'I went down and it got me on the right hand shoulder and I kept going down,' Mr Stanley told ABC radio. : 'I went for the floor of the boat. When I got past the gunnel it broke its grip.' : Mr Tannoch said crocodiles were particularly dangerous at this time of the year because breeding season was about to begin. : 'They can become particularly aggressive in breeding season, although it's still unusual for them to leap out of the water to attack,' he said. : He said the area was known to have a significant population of saltwater crocodiles. : CALM officers and staff from the Wyndham crocodile farm would visit the area tomorrow and try to harpoon the animal involved in the attack. : 'We're hoping to take it back to the crocodile farm where it can be used in breeding programs,' Mr Tannoch said. : He said killing the crocodile was not an option. : 'It's in its natural habitat, where there is a significant population of them anyway, so I don't think we'd consider killing it,' he said. : http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0011/20/A64135-2000Nov20.shtml : AFP 20 November 00 Man survives crocodile attack in Australia : Perth, Australia (AFP): A fisherman described Monday how a crocodile lunged out of the water and latched onto his shoulder as he sat in a boat in the isolated far north of Western Australia. : Norman Stanley told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he was fishing in a river north of the port of Wyndham when the reptile -- more than two metres (6 feet) long -- reared out of the water and bit him. : He needed stitches for gashes around his left shoulder, the national broadcaster reported. : Stanley said he and three fishing companions were trapped by a violent storm immediately after the attack and forced to stay in the bush all night before they could return to the remote town of Kununnurra for help. : Stanley said the attack happened so quickly his companions did not see the crocodile, thinking the commotion was the sound of him landing a big catch. : "It came straight out of the water," Stanley said Monday. "I ducked and it got me on the shoulder. I kept going down to the floor of the boat. When I got past the gunwhales, it broke its grip." : http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?s=asia/headlines/001120/asia/afp/Man_survives_crocodile_attack_in_Australia.html

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