On this evening's news, two stories back to back:
- some Aussie guy celebrating his 21st birthday by going surfing with his mates off a seal beach in southern Australia gets attacked by a 4-metre-long white shark; both legs and both hands get chewed a bit - not as bad as the surfboard, mind - but the footage shows him laughing and joking with the paramedics helicoptered-in to patch him up; followed by an interview with him later, telling how he cheated certain death...
- some middle-aged British guy snorkling (alone?) off northern Australia got killed by what is thought - prior to the post mortem - to be a 4-metre-long crocodile...
Different nationalities, ages, water-sports, compass-point coasts, predators; seems like the common factor would be 4-metres. Clearly a dangerous length, to be avoided if at all possible!
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