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Shark victim tells of onboard attack
http://news.smh.com.au/shark-victim-tells-of-onboard-attack/20080129-1opu.html
A fisherman who survived a shark attack aboard a fishing boat off Queensland says his skipper put his hand down the shark's throat to free his mangled leg.
Gold Coast fisherman Jarryd Tinson, 20, hauled a three-metre mako shark onto a tuna boat about 7.30am (AEST) on Sunday, more than 100 nautical miles off Coolangatta.
The 90kg shark whipped around and bit him on the right calf when he stepped over it.
"It was just a normal fishing day, hauled up a shark and got him on deck and was on standby to clean him and yeah ... misjudged him, he was laying there placid," Mr Tinson told the Nine Network from his Gold Coast Hospital bed.
"I went to step over him and he did a big banana on me and yeah, just took to my knee, thought he had a big bit of bait."
"One or two crew were on the nose side, trying to pull it away but just so lucky he didn't do any spins on me ... because if he did a spinner, I'd be walking away with half a calf."
"Most of the damage really happened when the shark let go and ripped down my leg and then it took bits of skin off," he said.
Mr Tinson said he was raring to get back on the water within two weeks and make some good money from a big haul.
This seems rather odd:
Search for missing diver ends in Qld
http://news.smh.com.au/search-for-missing-diver-ends-in-qld/20080206-1qle.html
A search for a man who went missing while spear fishing off Cardwell in north Queensland has been suspended.
Police are no longer confident they can find and retrieve his body.
The 21-year-old Tully man was last seen on Otter Reef on Monday when he surfaced from a dive about 4.15pm (AEST) and started to return to an anchored boat, police say.
His spear became lodged in coral and he dived to retrieve it.
He ascended to one metre below the surface, but then appeared to sink.
The other diver on the boat tried in vain to rescue the man.
Police divers have found part of the man's dive equipment and items he was wearing on the seabed.
They do not believe they will be able to recover his body.
Investigations are continuing.
Search continues for missing fisherman
http://news.smh.com.au/search-continues-for-missing-fisherman/20080228-1vdx.html
Friends of a fisherman still lost at sea off the NSW far north coast hope he will be found safe like his two crewmates.
Skipper Charlie Picton and his two deckhands were thrown into the sea when his trawler sank about 4am (AEDT) on Wednesday off the coast of Byron Bay.
One of the deckhands, named as Michael Williams, 39, made a marathon 12-hour swim to safety and crawled onto New Brighton Beach, north of Byron Bay, about 4pm (AEDT) on Wednesday.
The second deckhand, John Jarret, was rescued about 8.15am today by a Queensland rescue helicopter after nearly 25 hours in the water.
He was found floating 15km north-east of Ballina, suffering from hypothermia and dehydration.
Fishermen 'would not have survived'
http://news.smh.com.au/fishermen-would-not-have-survived/20080317-1zus.html
A man who helped rescue two fishermen from their capsized boat off the NSW south coast says the pair would not have survived another day in open seas.
The two men were found clinging to their overturned catamaran after a 34-hour ordeal at sea.
A fishing trawler found the missing men about 2.15pm (AEDT) on Sunday clinging to their overturned craft approximately five nautical miles east of Burrill Lake, near Ulladulla.
http://news.smh.com.au/nsw-men-saved-after-34-hours-lost-at-sea/20080316-1zr5.html
Trawler survivors recount their ordeal
http://news.smh.com.au/trawler-survivors-recount-their-ordeal/20080317-1zus.html
One of two survivors of a fatal fishing trawler tragedy on the NSW north coast has vowed never to return to the sea after losing his best mate.
Michael Williams, 39, John Jarrett, 41, and skipper Charlie Picton, 40, left Yamba late last month on a four-day trawl - but Mr Picton never made it back to shore.
The prawn trawler, Sea Rogue, was snagged about 3am (AEDT) on February 27 when its nets became caught on a reef, capsizing and sinking the boat about 13km off the coast.
"The whole thing, within an instant, just rolled over," Mr Williams told the Nine Network.
"I took a breath and then went under and sort of grabbed the little window.
"The water was rising and I thought 'this is it, you've got to get out of here'."
After a 12-hour swim, Mr Williams was washed up on New Brighton Beach, just north of Byron Bay. He was naked, dehydrated and had bad cuts to his legs and feet.
Meanwhile at sea, Mr Jarrett and Mr Picton were clinging to a fishing bucket, Mr Picton weak from swallowing a lot of sea water.
"Charlie was quite weak I had to hold my hand under his armpit and I'd say to him, 'kick Charlie, kick'," Mr Jarrett, known as JJ to his friends, told Nine.
"We had a helicopter fly straight over Charlie and myself. We were waving our arms, we did everything we could."
But the chopper did not see the pair and, about three hours later, Mr Picton died.
"I pulled Charlie up, he just wasn't breathing," Mr Jarrett said.
"That's the hardest thing I've ever had to do is let my friend go. I couldn't (hold on to him), if I had of I wouldn't be here either.
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