Croc bite, she's right : Barramundi & Tropical Estuary Fishing

Dick · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:34 pm Post subject: Croc bite, she's right

Love his style :cool:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/br ... o-dentist/

max · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:40 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

And some blokes return from a fishing trip with a hook in their finger :roll:

Angry · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

The roc obviousley had some denture work done & wasnt happy witht he Docs work :rofl:

fishfanatic · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Cant wait to hear the dentists arm has fallen off due to infection :wink:

. Wounds from crocs are usually very poisonous :mrgreen:

unless seen to quickly

Windy · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Yup - thats not a wise move at all in my books...any animal bite wound should essentially NEVER be sutured as the risk of infection is significantly high...cat bites in particular and croc bites im sure are heavily contaminated with bugs from rotten flesh etc...that dentist may be in some serious bother soon...

Dick · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Saw the fella on the TV tonight, the wounds look good, no redness around the margins or swelling. He may well have got away with it. If they had a suture kits on them chances are they had some kickasre sterilising agent.

Hedgedbets · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

one would have to ask with all the croc attacks over the last six months when they will either cull or declair open season on them for just long enough to scare these younger smaller crocs very rare to hear of a large croc attacking a boat!

xxxx · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Dare say you would not want to wince or winge when you're sitting in his dentist chair. Sounds like a very dedicated fisherman !!!

nomad · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

I cant believe he kept fishing. I would have had to return and wash my sh1t out of the boat

MikeEng · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Dick wrote:

Saw the fella on the TV tonight, the wounds look good, no redness around the margins or swelling. He may well have got away with it. If they had a suture kits on them chances are they had some kickasre sterilising agent.

I reckon a Dentist would have a fair idea of what sort of nasty germs can be found in the mouth. Chances are the treatment he received back on the boat would be comparable to what he'd have received at the hospital anyway.

Mike

Windy · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Good point there MikeEng re hospital treatment but at least he would have got a proper antiseptic washout and IV antibiotics - dentist would know re human bites yes (these are fine to suture as typically clean), but animal bites = medical training...hence not so sure he'd be aware and on the money there. He'd be nothing other than lucky in my books...not to get an abscess and blood vessel blow out...

freon · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

I was involved with that young lad that was nearly mauled to death by a couple of pit bulls
at Anula a couple of years ago. He went to theatre every day for 2 weeks to have the wounds
opened and washed out to stop infection it took 2 weeks before he was stiched and had to
have an antibiotic drip in him for ages.You would think a crocs mouth would be worse than a dogs
cheers

DOUG · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

just looking at the wounds id say they made an educated assement and realised it wasnt urgent im sure they had all the gear to clean it
as for the dog attac id say that would have been more muscles tearing and bruising which would have been alot worse that a couple of puncture wounds that the dentist recived

Kimberlite · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:14 am Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

I know one of the dudes as he was my dentist when I was in Derby. They are gung ho fisho's that do a lot of extended trips. I would just about bet my lefty that they had an RFDS medical kit which are loaded with every thing from morpine to the pill (we never used the pill out of my kit :naughty:

).

Secure bay is rarely visited I used to go there 4-5 times a year and the gators are not shy but strange for it to attack like that....maybe more to the story.

A few years ago I did a croc catching charter for the Wyndham croc farm and as were were unloding the crocs in Derby one slipped in the hands of one of my deckies and buried a tooth into the webbing between the thumb and fore finger, betadine applied and no infection. The same trip he grazed his ankle and got a Staph infection...go figure!

BPOS · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:46 am Post subject: Re: Croc bite, she's right

Yeah Kimberlite :fubird:

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