Man Attacked By Cougar, Teaches Cat Meaning of Word "Dominion".
CNEWS ^ | August 4, 2002 | Scott Sutherland
VICTORIA (CP) -- A 61-year-old man won a life-and-death struggle with a cougar outside a small northern Vancouver Island village, killing the animal with his 7.5-centimetre pocket knife.
Dave Parker was jumped from behind while walking on an industrial road two kilometres south of Port Alice, a village of 1,300 about 370 kilometres north of Victoria.
The retired pulp-mill worker was attacked Thursday evening by a 45-kilogram adult male cat, conservation officer Ken Fujino said.
"It was thin but by no means starving," Fujino said from Port Hardy, the nearest sizable town.
"There was no indications as to any physical injuries that we could see that may have provoked the attack."
Parker was being mauled but managed to get to his folding pocket knife.
"A lot of people carry knives out here, or bear spray," said Port Alice Mayor Larry Pepper, a friend of Parker. "People are quite conscious of the fact there's cougars here."
Pepper said Parker managed to turn on the attacking cougar and slit its throat.
Despite extensive wounds, Parker managed to walk about a kilometre to a forest mill's log-sorting area. Late-shift workers rushed him to Port Alice's tiny hospital.
" Because of the seriousness of his injuries they took him by ambulance to Port Hardy and flew him down to the hospital (in Victoria)," said Fujino.
Parker was undergoing surgery Friday to repair his wounds and was expected to recover in the intensive-care unit. He was listed in critical but stable condition.
Pepper said Parker liked to hike and was in good physical condition.
RCMP Const. Jeff Flindall said police found Parker's knife next to the carcass of the dead cougar.
"It is a pocket knife and it is approximately three inches long," Flindall said from Port Alice.
Fujino said there have been a spate of cougar sightings around Port Alice in recent weeks.
"Generally as a whole cougar attacks are fairly rare," he said.
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Man Attacked By Cougar, Teaches Cat Meaning of Word "Dominion".
CNEWS ^ | August 4, 2002 | Scott Sutherland
VICTORIA (CP) -- A 61-year-old man won a life-and-death struggle with a cougar outside a small northern Vancouver Island village, killing the animal with his 7.5-centimetre pocket knife.
Dave Parker was jumped from behind while walking on an industrial road two kilometres south of Port Alice, a village of 1,300 about 370 kilometres north of Victoria.
The retired pulp-mill worker was attacked Thursday evening by a 45-kilogram adult male cat, conservation officer Ken Fujino said.
"It was thin but by no means starving," Fujino said from Port Hardy, the nearest sizable town.
"There was no indications as to any physical injuries that we could see that may have provoked the attack."
Parker was being mauled but managed to get to his folding pocket knife.
"A lot of people carry knives out here, or bear spray," said Port Alice Mayor Larry Pepper, a friend of Parker. "People are quite conscious of the fact there's cougars here."
Pepper said Parker managed to turn on the attacking cougar and slit its throat.
Despite extensive wounds, Parker managed to walk about a kilometre to a forest mill's log-sorting area. Late-shift workers rushed him to Port Alice's tiny hospital.
" Because of the seriousness of his injuries they took him by ambulance to Port Hardy and flew him down to the hospital (in Victoria)," said Fujino.
Parker was undergoing surgery Friday to repair his wounds and was expected to recover in the intensive-care unit. He was listed in critical but stable condition.
Pepper said Parker liked to hike and was in good physical condition.
RCMP Const. Jeff Flindall said police found Parker's knife next to the carcass of the dead cougar.
"It is a pocket knife and it is approximately three inches long," Flindall said from Port Alice.
Fujino said there have been a spate of cougar sightings around Port Alice in recent weeks.
"Generally as a whole cougar attacks are fairly rare," he said.
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Great Whites kill teen on surfboard in second Australian shark attack
Thu Dec 16, 3:56 AM ET Asia - AFP
ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) - Two Great White sharks attacked and killed a teenage boy on a surfboard off a packed beach as his horrified friends looked on, in Australia's second fatal shark attack in five days.
Police said the 18-year-old was being towed on a surfboard behind a speedboat off a beach in the southern city of Adelaide when the giant maneaters struck.
The victim's three friends aboard the speedboat told police they saw a white pointer shark, also known as a Great White, grab the youth's arm and drag him into the water.
He yelled at them to get his board to him as the circling shark closed in and renewed its attack. Witnesses on the beach said the boy's body was torn in half before a second white pointer joined in a feeding frenzy, which was over in a matter of seconds.
"Apparently it tore him in half and the other shark came in and took the rest," Sea Rescue Squadron spokesman Fraser Bell told reporters at the scene.
The attack occurred in front of hundreds of beachgoers seeking relief from sweltering pre-Christmas weather at West Beach, just 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from Adelaide city centre.
Bell said the first shark was described as five metres (16.5 feet) long and the second 4.5 metres. White pointers can grow up to eight meters long and weigh up to 1,500 kilogrammes (3,300 pounds).
One witnesses said the shark that initiated the attack was "as wide as the boat they were in".
Police closed the beach after the attack and launched an intensive search for the teenager, although they had no hope of his survival.
The youth's three friends, all believed to be aged 16, were being treated for shock. Police said they were unable to give a detailed description of the attack because they were so traumatised.
"They were just boys having a good time, the weather was perfect and they were just out doing what young lads do," Bell said.
He said the teenagers tried in vain to rescue their friend.
"They tried everything they could think of but unfortunately the sharks had taken him by that stage," he said, describing the boys as "a wreck".
Bell said there had been recent reports of shark sightings off Adelaide's metropolitan coast and a shark warning had been issued two weeks ago.
The waters off South Australia are a well-known habitat for white pointers, although the last fatal attack in Adelaide was 14 years ago.
The latest death comes just five days after Mark Thompson, 38, was killed by a shark while spearfishing on a section of the Great Barrier Reef, about 75 kilometres (45 miles) north of the Queensland state tourist town of Cairns.
The Adelaide attack was the eighth fatal shark attack in Australian waters since 2000.
The attack by two sharks is unusual behaviour for white pointers, which are generally regarded as solitary hunters.
But there was another joint attack off Western Australia last July, when 29-year-old surfer Bradley Smith was killed by a pair of maneaters.
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