9:30am UK
A Frenchman
has been bitten on the head by a crocodile but managed to fight the creature
off by punching it repeatedly.
Yoann Galeran
was swimming to retrieve a moored dinghy at Nhulunbuy in northern Australia
The saltwater
croc, which was between 2.5 and 3m (8.2 to 9.8ft) long, grabbed the 29-year-old
deckhand by the head and rolled him in the water - a manoeuvre known as a death
roll.
But he was
able to fight off the reptile before scrambling to safety aboard the dinghy and
making it back to shore.
He said:
"It went straight away to the top of my head and diving under the water he
tried to do that spinning thing.
"It was
going so fast - everything happened in less than five seconds and then I fell
free. I'm very lucky.
"If it
was a bit bigger crocodile, I wouldn't be talking to you now."
Mr Galeran's
boss Lisa Heathcote told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "He said
it felt like a rock, somebody throwing a rock on him.
"Then,
next thing, it's got him by the head and rolled him and his instincts kicked in
and he's just started to punch into it."
Ms Heathcote,
the manager of Arnhem Fisheries, said the crocodile had been lurking in the
area for the past fortnight.
Mr Galeran was
rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment to bite marks to his head, neck and
shoulders.
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