An Australian man described spending 12 hours clinging to a tree branch “like a koala bear” as crocodiles circled beneath him after his boat ran aground in the country’s north.
Stan Martell said he climbed the tree after he fell asleep while out on a boat on the crocodile-infested Lynne River in the north of Western Australia state, and awoke to find the boat jammed under a tree and filled with water.
Martell said he spent an entire night in fear that the tree branch would break.
“I crawled up as high as I could, and just sat there like a koala bear all night,” he told national broadcaster ABC.
He said he was “a bit wary about the crocs. I saw two crocs right where I was, one was a big one, and one was about 10 foot (three meters).”
Martell quickly realized that the cards were stacked against him and decided to hang on and await rescue. “I didn’t want to go swimming anywhere, so I just sat there watching my boat and thinking, I can’t believe this has just happened,” he said.
Martell said rescuers found him the next morning after he activated his satellite phone and emergency radio beacon.
Local police Sergeant John Kazandsis said while Martell only saw two crocodiles, “there would have been plenty more under the water.”(AFP)
澳洲一名男子的船在澳洲北部擱淺後，被鱷魚團團圍住，他只好「學無尾熊」巴著樹枝不放，這一待就是十二個小時。
史丹．馬特爾說，他在西澳省北部有鱷魚出沒的林恩河划船時睡著了，醒來時發現船卡在一棵樹下，船身進水，他只好爬到樹上。
馬特爾說他整晚都提心吊膽，深怕這根樹枝會折斷。
他對澳洲國家廣播公司表示：「我盡可能地爬高，整晚像無尾熊一樣坐在樹枝上。」
他說：「我多少要留意一下鱷魚。我看到兩隻鱷魚就在我剛剛待的位置，一隻很大，另一隻大約有十英尺長（三公尺）。」
馬特爾立刻意識到情勢對他不利，因此決定留在樹上等待救援。他說：「我不想游去任何地方，所以我就坐在那裡看著我的船心想，真不敢相信會發生這種事。」
馬特爾說，隔天早上他開啟衛星電話和緊急無線電信標後，搜救人員就找到他了。
當地警長約翰．卡森西斯表示，雖然馬特爾只看到兩隻鱷魚，「但水面下可能還有更多」。（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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