Snap act of bravery
CROCODILE-wrestling grandmother Alicia Sorohan says a man who jumped on a croc to save his wife in the Northern Territory would have acted on instinct.
Ms Sorohan, 64, made international headlines in 2004 by flinging her 50kg frame on the back of a 300kg, 4.2m monster as it dragged a friend from their campsite at Bathurst Bay on Cape York.
Memories of the near-tragedy were revived yesterday when it was reported a 39-year-old man tackled a 2.5m croc which had latched on to his wife as they swam in a creek crossing about 160km southwest of Darwin on Wednesday.
The woman has been flown to Royal Darwin Hospital with leg and hand injuries.
"I certainly feel for them and I know what he was going through," Ms Sorohan told The Cairns Post from her home in Brisbane.
"I just hope she's OK."
Ms Sorohan has a permanent arm injury from being savaged when the croc turned on her before her son shot it dead.
She said she understood the NT man risking his own life to save another, saying he would have made a snap decision.
"The first thing I thought of was to jump on the back of his head and get him off," she said.
"I was the first there and I thought, 'I've got to do something'.
"You have no fear."
Ms Sorohan, who owns the skull of the croc she wrestled, and her family have returned to the scene of the attack and plan to continue camping at Bathurst Bay.
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Instinctive:Crocodile-wrestling grandmother Alicia Sorohan.
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