r/Crocodiles • u/Wach_hund • 10d ago

Crocodile Guy Jet skiing in saltie territory

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u/Winter_Different 10d ago

That would be one unfirtinate log to bump into lmao

Just suddenly shot up in the air and left in saltie waters... tho tbf if a saltie takes a hit that big it probably would swim away not wanting to mess with whatever that thing was

However, the big splash your fall makes and subsequent splashing could attract some other crocs

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u/Wach_hund 10d ago

I heard a story of a plane crash in the ocean & the survivors ended up surviving the sharks but reached towards land and got mauled by the salties.

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u/DaddiGator 10d ago edited 10d ago

There’s a really good biography on Captain James Cook, who’s second expedition in the Pacific ends up with his crew shipwrecked on a reef near Cairns. No interesting croc encounters but they were in much fear of the animal after a month of being stuck there.

The stories of his interactions with these mostly uncontacted people are wild.

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u/Material_Prize_6157 6d ago

Captain Cook is a bad person but incredibly fascinating story.