---------- > From: Peter Treby <ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au> > hospital. I hope they have healed and he makes a full recovery. haven't seen him for a few weeks but I gather he's fine now. I gather > that the rescue efforts of his fellow paddlers were efficient, really > excellent. In particular, if Dave Winkworth went into the water and wrestled > with the croc, this shows great instinctive courage (and proves all the > heroic, macho comments about Oz paddlers true!) he did indeed. Put his arms around it behind its head. it let go immeadiately. Arunas was bandaged and the EPIRB was set off and rescue came. But I wonder if anyone has > any theories on prevention of crocodile attacks? Do paddlers up north simply > have to hope that the chances of attack are small? While obvious croc > habitat, creeks, mangroves etc should be avoided, saltwater crocodiles range > well out to sea and along all sorts of coastline. they were well offshore and, I'm told not in breeding season. Their risk was minimised, but , of course, not eliminated. > BTW, where do you buy a plastic Skerray in Australia? don't know. Mine's a few years old. I got it through 'Perception Australia' in Adelaide who used to import them - but no longer. I suspect that with the current pound/dollar exchange rate they aren't coming in as a matter of course. They'd be too expensive. I recall a friend of mine in the trade mentioning this a few months ago. There used to be a place in melburne but I have no idea what its called or if they still have them. Might be different now. You could contact VCP direct and ask. seem to be few around second hand nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 25 1999 - 17:11:29 PST
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