eelgrass
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That would be a terrible way to die, but it seems kind of foolish, what these guys were doing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101221/ap_on_re_us/us_crocodile_kayaker#mwpphu-container
Kayakers recount deadly crocodile attack in Congo
GRANTS PASS, Ore. ? For weeks, three kayakers exploring a series of rivers through the heart of Africa had come together in close defensive formation designed to ward off hippo and crocodile attacks whenever they paddled the quiet green glides between thundering stretches of whitewater.
The boaters ? two Americans and a South African ? traveled some 1,000 miles of river this way, through the densest concentrations of man-killing wildlife in the world. They were paddling in synchronous strokes, just 4 or 5 feet from each other, on a quiet stretch of the Lukuga River in Congo when a crocodile slipped up from behind and ripped trip leader Hendri Coetzee from his tiny red plastic boat.
With no time to do anything but say "Oh, my God!" Coetzee was gone, hauled beneath the green water never to be seen again.
"The crocodile just pulled him right underwater," Chris Korbulic told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Reno, Nev., where he was visiting his brother. "I think we both were just in complete shock and disbelief and absolutely horrified at what had just happened."
For about 20 seconds after the crocodile grabbed Coetzee by the shoulder and overturned his boat, the craft shook as the crocodile pulled him from the tight-fitting cockpit, Korbulic said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101221/ap_on_re_us/us_crocodile_kayaker#mwpphu-container
Kayakers recount deadly crocodile attack in Congo
GRANTS PASS, Ore. ? For weeks, three kayakers exploring a series of rivers through the heart of Africa had come together in close defensive formation designed to ward off hippo and crocodile attacks whenever they paddled the quiet green glides between thundering stretches of whitewater.
The boaters ? two Americans and a South African ? traveled some 1,000 miles of river this way, through the densest concentrations of man-killing wildlife in the world. They were paddling in synchronous strokes, just 4 or 5 feet from each other, on a quiet stretch of the Lukuga River in Congo when a crocodile slipped up from behind and ripped trip leader Hendri Coetzee from his tiny red plastic boat.
With no time to do anything but say "Oh, my God!" Coetzee was gone, hauled beneath the green water never to be seen again.
"The crocodile just pulled him right underwater," Chris Korbulic told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Reno, Nev., where he was visiting his brother. "I think we both were just in complete shock and disbelief and absolutely horrified at what had just happened."
For about 20 seconds after the crocodile grabbed Coetzee by the shoulder and overturned his boat, the craft shook as the crocodile pulled him from the tight-fitting cockpit, Korbulic said.
