Man narrowly escapes from jaws of crocodile

A French fisherman was bloodied but back on his fishing boat hours after he escaped from the jaws of a young saltwater crocodile which attacked him while swimming along a remote stretch of Australia’s northern coast.

Yoann Galeran, 29, said he was swimming from shore to a dinghy about 50ft away on Sunday when a crocodile 6ft to 7ft long clamped down on his head and neck and attempted to drown him in a movement known as a death roll.

“It went straight away to the top of my head and diving under the water he tried to do that spinning thing,” Galeran said.