My mate did it once, we were leaping off some rocks with our board to reach some surf. He didn’t really feel it straight away but by the time we paddled out the back he wasn’t feeling great and went to stand on a wave and fell straight over.
I had to tow him in, which was tricky because you exited the water there via the rocks as well. Virtually carried him to the car and we drove to hospital where they extracted it and injected him with ‘something’.
Venomous bastards. It’s the attitude; no need to hide, no need to swim fast/get away, no need for camouflage just a ‘I’m fucking venomous and know it’ look that has everything else give it a swerve.
I used to train with a guy from Swaziland - he tried to get me to do a multi-stage multisport event over there.
The blurb on the event said that individual canoe cover was obligatory on the swims in case of crocodile attack.
From recollection, this wasn’t long after I’d done the SOS (Survival of the Shawanagunks). We also talked about doing some sort of extreme quadrathon in Scotland.
Luckily he then moved to Colorado as a ski coach - at the time he was the only person to represent Swaziland in the winter olympics, I think in the mens downhill.
I do occasionally get barked at by dogs now, but it’s not the same
Saw this few days ago but the IM is in a heavenly crystal clear lake so nothing to fear there
But saying that, I’m aware if I want one last chance at another ironman in Aus (with 1000% better training environment) it’ll be Busso in December. Which was an iconic swim 1 lap round a pier, but they’ve had to change because there were too many shark sightings during races. I never swim further than 50m from shore, so the thought of going 1.9km out, and leading, would rattle me.
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