1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,760 Speaker 1: It's eleven minutes away from ten o'clock. And I tell 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: you Wash, I'm sure that a lot of Territorians like 3 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: me earlier in the week when we heard that somebody 4 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: had been attacked by a crocodile on the Adelaide River, 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: certainly felt pretty concerned. And joining me on the line 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: right now is the person who was attacked, Sean Dearly. 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Good morning to you. 8 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, goodakaty you're. 9 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Going, Oh mate, I'm all right. How are you going? 10 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, I'm all right. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 3: And they just took the bandy joff for the splint 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 3: off and we've got to see the wounds. So they're 13 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 3: pretty nasty. But for a small crocodile, they can do 14 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 3: a bit of dammage, all right, Yeah. 15 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: Goodness mate, Sean, tell us exactly what happened. 16 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: As you know, my tour operator and I was on 17 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 3: tour and we're just about finished our tour and I 18 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 3: was just doing, you know, feeding a few of the 19 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 3: whistling cats and black carts out there with a bit 20 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 3: of scrap meat that was at the back there and 21 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 3: I was throwing it up in the air and that's 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 3: one of my little rocks. And I went into the water, 23 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 3: and I think what happened right so that there must 24 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 3: have been a small crock. There's only a small crock 25 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 3: that got me. It must have been just in the 26 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 3: rear of the transit, and I think just recollecting, I 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: think maybe what the splash of that rod attracted it. 28 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 2: And it came in. 29 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 3: And I usually use the bust to pull things out 30 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 3: of the water carry because it's you know, that's our practices. 31 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: And I just saw that bob was bamboo. So I 32 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: saw bob and I reached down to quickly grab it, 33 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 3: and it was like grief lightning. It was just on me, 34 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 3: and it was just sort of an instinctive movement. I 35 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 3: just went, oh, yeah, but yeah, Like normally I will 36 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: check myself and don't do it, but I'll just be 37 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: end of the cruise. I was probably just, you know, 38 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,559 Speaker 3: just did something out of the normal. 39 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: Really, And. 40 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: At this time of the year, the crocodiles submerged themselves 41 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: quite a lot because there's a lot of flies around. 42 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 2: They bought their eyes so they stand with water. And 43 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: this crocodile had got me. 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 3: It was a bit two point two meter as long 45 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 3: as you have little female I think, and very sandy 46 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 3: colored crocodile said the color the Adelaide River very simm 47 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 3: It was probably just. 48 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 2: I had its eyes just under the surface. 49 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,079 Speaker 3: I was probably just waiting there, got attracted to that 50 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: initial splash of something. 51 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: Hit me that click. I actually listened it up with me. 52 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 3: I hanging off the arm and I'm looking at the 53 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 3: crockets looking at me, and I think, well, maybe you 54 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 3: think I think this thing is probably thinking it has 55 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 3: bitten off bitten in the can chut and instead of 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 3: thinking for another grab and I just pulled my hand 57 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: for it exactly that it was on my hand, on 58 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 3: my forearm. Oh, just got free to drop back in 59 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 3: the water. Everyone on the boat just turned around. I said, ah, 60 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: I don't know what I said. Something got me, I 61 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 3: think coming. And they all turned around and there were 62 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 3: great bunch of people. They could have had a better people. 63 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 3: Actually they were fantastic. And I just said, don't panty, 64 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 3: there's a bit of claret. I was lucky there was 65 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 3: a male nurse on board. I go well equipped to 66 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: do with the bendaging and we've got extent first aid 67 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: on the boat. He grabbed a couple of pressure banages 68 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 3: and pag things and wrapped me up. I drove the 69 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 3: boat back to the ramp and tied her up and 70 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 3: saw everyone else and then we headed into the Darwin 71 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 3: hospital with the farming in the hospital emergency. 72 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: So mate, you literally you had a crocodile attached to 73 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: your arm. You know, the whole tour boat is watching. 74 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: You managed to get free and then you still finished 75 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: your tour. 76 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: Well, it was only fifty or seventy meters from the 77 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: boat ramp. 78 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 2: I took base. 79 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, one of the gentlemen helped me out there. 80 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: Now I got off the time boat. There was still one, 81 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 3: say the Benaje on there. There was no big deal 82 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 3: for me. Actually, you know, the bike force of the 83 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: crocodile was quite amazing. Actually, the pain it was on 84 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 3: the way in was becoming pretty intense. But they got 85 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 3: a pretty decent bottle. 86 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: And I'm not to tell you. 87 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, what did it feel like, you know, when you've 88 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: got the crocodile sort of attached to you, But then 89 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: in the aftermath as well as you're driving in. 90 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 3: The aftermath was that it didn't hit the bone in 91 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: thank cord. Just but the power of their bots and 92 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,679 Speaker 3: amazing as well. I've been bitten by to your dogs 93 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 3: every day, but the bottle of the salty is pretty hard. 94 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 3: And as I said about you know, three cans and 95 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 3: tams per experience in the back force, I would hate 96 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 3: to think, uh, you know, after I saw the the 97 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 3: newspaper saying I was doing a tag bar three will 98 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 3: pull me the crocodile, I don't think I'll be I 99 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 3: don't think you'd be able to get free of something 100 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 3: like that if I grab hold of you and h 101 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: this little crocodile. Obviously you know it's been a big crocodle. 102 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: Would have seen it, and it was just a little 103 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 3: croc very well, just called the camp flies. 104 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 2: But a silly move. 105 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 3: I made a mistake, mates on the stake once in 106 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 3: the Blue MOONI I made a mistake and was stupid 107 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 3: to do it, Like I literally credit well. 108 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: And no doubt, but you've been working on the water 109 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: for such a long time as well, and never had 110 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: something like this happened before. 111 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 3: Had incident the company's actually got into the free but 112 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 3: a record. And you know I went capat for many. 113 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 2: Years as well. 114 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 3: You know I was on the water out there Yellow Waters, 115 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: and yeah, I've got a pretty good knowledge of crocodiles. 116 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 3: I reckon, and yeah, I just I did something which 117 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: really was out of our training. We do discuss these things, 118 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: and we do have a work method approaches to retrieving 119 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 3: things from the water. 120 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 2: And you know, I just disobeyed my own else. 121 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, goodness, a lecture on the boat before we start off, 122 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 3: you know, and tell them exactly what they can and 123 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: can't do on the boat. And I've just gone and 124 00:05:58,480 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 3: done something. 125 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: Yuh sure, do you when are you going to be 126 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 1: back on the water? 127 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 3: Well, I just I told that the the tendons, eight 128 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 3: tens were were damaged and one was severed. I think 129 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 3: eight was seven. The title all back up. I reckon 130 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 3: about three weeks before I could start moving my fingers, 131 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 3: and then, uh that's three months before I can actually 132 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 3: get anything really going on. And the infection is a 133 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 3: big growing just changing anybody can crocodile boches, we know, 134 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 3: really infectious basically. 135 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big way, you know, Oh. 136 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: No doubt mate. Do you think it's going to leave 137 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 1: you with any sort of fear around the crocodiles or 138 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: I know that you'd have a healthy respect for them 139 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: as it is. 140 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 3: Now, I don't think I'll fear them Katie, it's just yeah, 141 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: I just uh, it'll make me remember my rules. 142 00:06:59,440 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah. 143 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 3: I rehiterated to myself quite a lot. But look, we 144 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 3: are generally, Look, we we work on the river there, 145 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 3: and we we we practice safe methods in handling and 146 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 3: working around crocodiles at all times, and and we we 147 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 3: just just reached out. It was just any stick, like know, 148 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: I just thought it's bobbed up, bobs up, bobbed up, 149 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: and I went to grab it, you know what I mean. Yeah, 150 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 3: So I went down vertically and I bobbed back up, 151 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 3: and I, oh god, quickly grab it. 152 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: And as soon as I put why I'm out there. 153 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 4: Bank, Yeah, oh mate, waiting because right at the back 154 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 4: of the boat, we've got the the chicken we used 155 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 4: to feed the crocodiles quite off, and the crocodiles will 156 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 4: come up behind the boat and just actually know where 157 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 4: we have the food, you know. 158 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're so bloody smart. 159 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, they are too smart, don't are you? 160 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: Poor bugger? 161 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, like, I'm so glad that you're around 162 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: to tell the tale, because, like you'd said, had it 163 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: been one of those enormous crocodiles, the situation might have 164 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: been very different. 165 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you know exactly, but you would have seen 166 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 3: that crocodile. 167 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 2: You would have seen that. 168 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and there was a large crocodile at the 169 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: front of the boat that it's probably about twelve meters 170 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 3: away at the front of the boat. And basically, you know, 171 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 3: I don't think anything else would be around us, but 172 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 3: I really, yeah, I should have done. I'm living do 173 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 3: re credit. 174 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's one of those things, Caudie. I think 175 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: every workplace you haven't. 176 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 3: Actually, there's always something because you didn't think or you know, yeah, 177 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 3: to practice or methods order. 178 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 2: You know. 179 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: Well, Sean, I tell you what, I'm glad that you 180 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: are going to be okay. You know. I know that 181 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: it's that there is damage there and it's going to 182 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: take you a little while, by the sounds of it, 183 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: to be able to get back out on the water. 184 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: But I'm glad that you're okay. 185 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:05,839 Speaker 3: No, thanks very much, Yeah, no, no, no. The boys 186 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 3: are taking care of it and going on and you know, 187 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: we've only got a little bit less time left in 188 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 3: the season, probably which close o Breck generally around November. 189 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 3: Where we are with the small operators on the rimy. 190 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 3: You know, and we're at a flood plain, so we've 191 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 3: got a little bit of time's it was a little bit. 192 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: School holidays picked a bit easier than being hard. You 193 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 2: at the COVID as well. 194 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: So now yeah, I've just got to endure this and 195 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 3: wait for the next season. 196 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: Now well, mate, I know you'd be going through a 197 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: tough time. I know you're probably going to be in 198 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: hospital for a little while. But we have a territory 199 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: and of the week every week, as you probably know, 200 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: and this week I want to give it to you. 201 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: You score yourself a gourmet meat trade thanks to Glenn 202 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: and ls n H Butcher's, and you might need one 203 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: of your mates to cook the barbecue for you, because 204 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 1: I want to cook the barbie for you for a 205 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: little while.