Number 8 Melissa & Georgia Laurie In June of 2021, British holidaymakers Melissa
and Georgia Laurie were swimming in Mexico’s Manialtepec Lagoon, about 10 miles from the
surfing resort of Pueblo Escondido.
The lagoon is a popular attraction due to a type of algae that lives in it and which,
when activated by movement in the water, turns phosphorescent.
Identical twins Melissa and Georgia, aged 28, were swimming in the luminescent waters
at twilight.
It was there that a crocodile attacked them, bit Melissa and dragged her underwater.
Georgia dove after her and, after a frantic search lasting several minutes, saw her floating
face-down.
She cradled her sister in her arms and began to swim towards their boat.
The crocodile circled back and attacked them once again.
Georgia suffered bites and lacerations as she fought the crocodile, repeatedly punching
it in the head and ultimately causing it to turn away.
Both survived the attack and Melissa received urgent medical attention.
She had water in her lungs, one of which was suspected to have been punctured.
Melissa also developed sepsis from her injuries and was placed in a medically-induced coma.
According to subsequent updates on her condition, dated June the 11th, she was out of the coma
and breathing on her own.
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Number 7 Andrew Heard In February of 2021, Queensland fisherman
Andrew Heard headed out to Gayundah Creek, near Hinchinbrook Island.
The 69-year-old told his wife he wouldn’t be long but, when he failed to return, the
woman alerted the authorities.
They failed to make radio contact with him and a search was launched.
The morning after his disappearance, Heard’s dinghy was found on the southwestern side
of the island, upside down, and with a large chunk of it bitten off.
A 13-foot-long crocodile, believed to have been responsible for killing Heard, was found
near the damaged vessel.
It was subsequently euthanized and transported to the mainland for a necropsy.
Wildlife officers also discovered human remains at the scene, which they suspected belonged
to Heard.
Number 6 Tara Hawkes On April the 1st of 2012, Tara Hawkes was
working as a hostess aboard a luxury cruise ship when she and a few or her friends decided
to cool off in the water.
23-year-old Hawkes and her group went paddling in a freshwater pool near Dugong Bay, in Western
Australia.
The young woman felt something drag her underwater and, within moments, realized she was being
attacked by a crocodile.
Hawkes resurfaced for a few times and managed to scream for help.
Only about an inch and a half of her leg was visible as the rest was inside the giant reptile’s
mouth.
Looking back on the incident, Hawkes remembered “He was playing with me like I was a teddy
bear”.
The adrenaline-inducing shock of the attack prevented her from feeling any pain but she
could see that the crocodile’s teeth were buried in her flesh.
Al Sartori, Hawkes’ friend and colleague, was on the shore.
He saw her thrashing in the water but initially thought it was an April Fools prank.
However, as blood started coloring the surface, 35-year-old Sartori understood the urgency
of the situation at hand.
He dove in the water and, with the help of bystander Mike Fletcher, tried to wrestle
the crocodile off Hawkes, by prying its jaws open with his bare hands.
Human strength is no match for the mechanics of a crocodile’s clenched jaws, particularly
a 10-footer like the one they were facing.
As Fletcher kept Hawkes’ head above the water, Sartori plunged his thumbs deep into
the beast’s eyes, causing it to release its hold just enough for Hawkes to pull her
leg out.
She wrapped her mangled limb in a T-shirt and her two rescuers, who’ve since won awards
for their brave actions, took her back to the cruise ship on a dinghy.
She was airlifted to a hospital and, after several hours in surgery and a few subsequent
months of physiotherapy, Hawkes recovered.
Number 5 Val Plumwood In 1985, Australian philosopher Val Plumwood
narrowly survived a saltwater crocodile attack, an experience that would prompt a paradigm
shift in her understanding of life.
On February the 19th, Plumwood was visiting Kakadu National Park, where she borrowed a
fiberglass canoe from a ranger and set off to explore East Alligator Lagoon.
A few minutes into her expedition down the channel, a saltwater crocodile started striking
the canoe with its tail.
The woman, then in her mid-40s, grabbed some overhanging branches but, before she could
pull herself up, the crocodile clamped its colossal jaws on her body.
It bit her between the legs and dragged Plumwood into what she would later describe as a "centrifuge
of whirling, boiling blackness, which seemed about to tear my limbs from my body”.
She was detailing a death roll, the crocodile’s most redoubtable killing technique.
As it clamps on large prey, it will begin to relentlessly twist its body to dismember
its victim.
Plumwood was death rolled three times before she managed to escape up a steep mud bank.
Her left leg had been chewed up so severely that her bone was exposed.
She walked and crawled for nearly 2 miles before she was found by the ranger, who’d
heard her shouting for help.
Aside from her extensive leg wounds, Plumwood had also contracted an infection called melioidosis,
as a result of the attack.
It took 13 hours before she reached a hospital in Darwin, where she spent about a month in
the intensive care unit.
The damage to her leg required multiple skin grafts.
The attack majorly impacted Plumwood’s writing, as reflected by a 1996 essay called “Being
Prey”, in which she juxtaposed the view of human beings as individuals, existing above
nature, to that of them being just another “edible” part of the food chain.
Number 4 Daisy Tuwo On January the 10th of 2019, an Indonesian
woman was mauled to death by a crocodile which was illegally kept at a pearl farm, on the
island of Sulawesi.
According to the local authorities, they’d visited the property several times in the
past, intending to remove Merry, a 1,500-pound saltwater crocodile, but weren’t allowed
on the premises.
The dangers were evident as the species is among the few animals known to actively hunt
humans with the intention of eating them.
44-year-old Tuwo, who was heading the farm’s science laboratory, was throwing pieces of
meat into the enclosure, during the reptiles daily feeding time.
It’s unclear if she’d accidentally fallen or if Merry had jumped over the 8-foot wall
and bit into her body, dragging her inside.
Whatever the case might’ve been, later that morning, staff found the 17-foot-long crocodile,
lying on the ground, with Tuwo’s mangled body still in its jaws.
It had reportedly already eaten parts of her and thrashed around violently every time rescuers
tried to recover the woman’s remains.
Conservationists eventually relocated Merry to a nature reserve and an investigation was
launched concerning the Japanese national who owned the farm.
Number 3 Crocodile Trainers in Thailand In 2018, a performer at the Phokkathara Crocodile
Farm in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, nearly lost an arm during a stunt involving a crocodile.
With roughly 100 people in attendance, the 45-year-old man, only named as Tao, reached
into the massive reptile’s jaws.
A visitor filmed the moment that Tao pushed his arm further down its throat and the crocodile
chomped down on his forearm.
It then violently started swinging him from side to side.
Tao, who was in visible pain, started screaming as he struggled to get free.
He then staggered away, with blood dripping from his arm, after the crocodile had unclenched
its jaws.
According to the owner of the crocodile park, Tao was treated at the scene and was not in
life-threatening danger.
This wasn’t the first incident of its kind to be reported in Thailand.
In 2016, trainer Anusak Salagam was death rolled by a 10-foot crocodile during a live
performance, in Phuket.
Fortunately, the 47-year-old walked away without major injuries.
On New Year’s Eve, 2016, Sumet Thongkhammuan stuck his arm in the mouth of a massive crocodile,
during a show in Nakhon Sawan.
It bit down and swiftly performed a death roll.
Thongkhammuan survived but his arm was snapped in half.
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Number 2 Cindy Waldron In late May of 2016, New Zealand-born woman
Cindy Waldron and her friend, Leeann Mitchell, were taking a late night swim off Thornton
Beach, at Australia’s Daintree National Park.
Roughly two hours before she was never seen again, 46-year-old Waldron sent a Facebook
message which read “I'm on the beach, it's a lovely place, I'm having a ball”.
The childhood friends were presumably unaware that the area was home to a high crocodile
population.
They were celebrating the end of Mitchell’s cancer treatment.
A few minutes after they’d entered the knee-deep water, Waldron felt something brush past her
leg.
She then started screaming that a croc had gotten her and Mitchell desperately tried
to free her friend from the beast’s jaws.
Mitchell was essentially powerless in the ensuing tug-of-war and Waldron disappeared
beneath the surface.
Mitchell made it to shore and was treated for shock and minor injuries.
Watching her friend being pulled into the ocean left her severely traumatized.
Two crocodiles were killed in the aftermath, one of which had human remains in its stomach.
An Environment Department facility, in Cairns, conducted an examination and believed they
belonged to Waldron.
Number 1 Hendrik Coetzee In 2004, South African adventurer Hendrik
"Hendri" Coetzee led an expedition following the course of the Nile River, from the Ugandan
reach of Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, at Rosetta.
The trip, meant to raise awareness to the region’s humanitarian situation, took several
months and covered over 4,160 miles.
That’s considerably longer than the distance from Los Angeles to New York.
A few years later, in December of 2010, Coetzee was heading an expedition from the source
of the White Nile and deep into the Congo.
He was accompanied by Americans Chris Korbulic and Ben Stookesbury in a novel kayaking expedition,
documenting the region’s unexplored whitewater.
Tragically, it would also be Coetzee’s final adventure.
The trio had just navigated some raging rapids, on the Lukuga River, and headed into a long
stretch of flat water.
Suddenly, an enormous Nile crocodile emerged from the water and flipped Coetzee’s kayak.
Korbulic and Stookesbury were paddling beside him, when the attack occurred.
Korbulic remembered only seeing a flash of giant jaws and that Coetzee didn’t even
get a chance to scream out before the crocodile dragged him beneath the surface.
A wildlife expert argued that the attack had been so sudden and violent that there wasn’t
anything the adventurer could’ve done to oppose it.
His kayak turned right side up, empty.
Korbulic and Stookesbury desperately paddled to shore.
They made their way into a town and subsequently flew back to the US.
Coetzee’s body was never found and a memorial service was held for him on January the 28th
of 2011.
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