Old Croc Thread

[khall64au]

Ever since I moved to Thailand........ over 3 yrs ago now - I've been a liitle wary of jumping overboard. After all, where I come from crocs eat you for breakfast!

I've overcome the dilemma of shark feed and croc dinner - apparently the Thai's ate them many moons ago!

So, how many TV'ers are still afraid to enter the water?

Fess up!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... do you swim without imaginary horror scenes? Can you do laps and leave the ocean with all your limbs intact?

btw: Old Croc rules!

Edited February 9, 2006 by khall64au

[BKK90210]

I'd stop going into the water since "JAWS 1"! That's many many moons ago....

[khall64au]

I'd stop going into the water since "JAWS 1"! That's many many moons ago....

YOU BIG WIMP!!!!!!!!

PS. actually, I still look around a little!

[suegha]

As a Diver, I take my chances. Statistically, the chances of being attacked by anything are negligible! More chance of scratching yourself on a rock...

Jaws did more damage to peoples confidence than it should have. Shark attacks are very rare!

Although I do sometimes wonder what would happen if I saw a big shark swimming my direction???

[radar]

As a Diver, I take my chances. Statistically, the chances of being attacked by anything are negligible! More chance of scratching yourself on a rock...

Jaws did more damage to peoples confidence than it should have. Shark attacks are very rare!

Although I do sometimes wonder what would happen if I saw a big shark swimming my direction???

old croc.

front page of the northern territory news yesterday had a 17 foot crocodile that had pulled a fully grown brahman cow down,and was enjoying a feed of rump steak.true story.

think i might wait until i return to thailand for a swim.

[ThaiPauly]

I once went Ocean swimming with Dolphins in Western Australia, we had to wait in the water until they came along.

I must admit that when I saw 4 Dorsil Fins heading right for me accompanied by the shouts of "here they come" from the safety of the boat did make me more than a little nervous.

But I lived to tell the tale and would not have missed in for the world.

I don't have any worries about swimming in Thailand's costal waters.

I'm more worried about the Snakes that seem to have taken a liking to my Swimming Pool

Edited February 10, 2006 by ThaiPauly

[chuchok]

There is a very good reason why Crocs in Aussie only eat foreign tourists.....they prefer humans

[kayo]

I only get nervous when I enter the water and there is THAT famous two note theme tune... Do Duh! Do Duh! Duh DO Duh Do DuhDo!!!.... (hehehe, almost like homer simpson singing in the shower....)

[Patex]

I only get nervous when I enter the water and there is THAT famous two note theme tune... Do Duh! Do Duh! Duh DO Duh Do DuhDo!!!.... (hehehe, almost like homer simpson singing in the shower....)

Yeah!

Do Duh! Do Duh! Do Duh... nearly as alarming as the Tschreng! Tschreng! Tschreng!... while taking a shower

[Old Croc]

Has this thread got any thing to do with me?

[khall64au]

Has this thread got any thing to do with me?

Depends what you eat for breakfast Old Croc....

[kayo]

I only get nervous when I enter the water and there is THAT famous two note theme tune... Do Duh! Do Duh! Duh DO Duh Do DuhDo!!!.... (hehehe, almost like homer simpson singing in the shower....)

Yeah!

Do Duh! Do Duh! Do Duh... nearly as alarming as the Tschreng! Tschreng! Tschreng!... while taking a shower

very very good point... I just got shivers down my spine....

I get scared geting into a pool if Old Croc is around. He keeps staring at myshorts with a small bulge in his speedos

[Old Croc]

Has this thread got any thing to do with me?

Depends what you eat for breakfast Old Croc....

If I thought you were ever up that early Khall I would be lurking

I only get nervous when I enter the water and there is THAT famous two note theme tune... Do Duh! Do Duh! Duh DO Duh Do DuhDo!!!.... (hehehe, almost like homer simpson singing in the shower....)

Yeah!

Do Duh! Do Duh! Do Duh... nearly as alarming as the Tschreng! Tschreng! Tschreng!... while taking a shower

very very good point... I just got shivers down my spine....

I get scared geting into a pool if Old Croc is around. He keeps staring at myshorts with a small bulge in his speedos

If only you knew! A small bulge and speedos never co-exist!

[kayo]

Only in your case... oldCrock...

[Pink Mist]

As a Diver, I take my chances. Statistically, the chances of being attacked by anything are negligible! More chance of scratching yourself on a rock...

Jaws did more damage to peoples confidence than it should have. Shark attacks are very rare!

Although I do sometimes wonder what would happen if I saw a big shark swimming my direction???

we are getting roughly one death a year here in Adelaide and quite a few lucky escapes from sharks

[Mighty Mouse]

Crocodiles don't worry me. I've got a crocodile skin belt and wallet to prove it.

The only crocs that you need to be careful of are those who talk a croc of poo.

Sharks are all friendly where I swim but loan sharks can be dangerous .

[daleyboy]

Not a fan of the sea, i am quite happy in a swimming pool

[Nignoy]

As a Diver, I take my chances. Statistically, the chances of being attacked by anything are negligible! More chance of scratching yourself on a rock...

Jaws did more damage to peoples confidence than it should have. Shark attacks are very rare!

Although I do sometimes wonder what would happen if I saw a big shark swimming my direction???

we are getting roughly one death a year here in Adelaide and quite a few lucky escapes from sharks

well Suegha, we know you dont get many sharkattacks in the Mersey, but here in Queensland they are becoming more frequent, a young women got taken off the front of moreton island last week, a 14 foot tiger shark was caught near Bribie , it had ahalf digested child inside it, the child was aboriginal or islander so this shark had come a long way, if the water aint got chlorine in it I dont swim in it, as far as sharks attacks being rare not in queensland mate!! nignoy

[Pattayatony]

I was in Krabi in 1991 and asked a Thai if there were many sharks in the water. He replied many many and they drink tooo much whisky The thing one must be carefull of in the waters around Thailand are the floating TURDS

[thaibebop]

I have alway been nervous around deep bodies of water, but then I have never lived around them. I haven't ever seen an ocean.

[Old Croc]

I have alway been nervous around deep bodies of water, but then I have never lived around them. I haven't ever seen an ocean.

[thaibebop]

I have alway been nervous around deep bodies of water, but then I have never lived around them. I haven't ever seen an ocean.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, some of us don't get to travel and see the world. My goal now is just to leave this place before I die. I will not die here, anywhere but here!

[Ulysses G.]

I have alway been nervous around deep bodies of water, but then I have never lived around them. I haven't ever seen an ocean.

I have almost always lived near the ocean, so it is hard living without one in Chiang Mai, but the river is better than nothing.

Edited February 11, 2006 by Ulysses G.

[Wes Turner]

I always wanted to restle a crocodile, ther are more of them in Florida than in Australia alone.

As for sharks, they dont scare me but i wouldn't want to be alone in the sea on a broken waverunner with a cut on my toe, understand?

[mbkudu]

I've lived most of my life near an ocean. As a sufer I feel at home in the sea and the waves. I don't feel comfortable going into rivers or ponds in Asia for fear of leaches crawling up the winker.

[Kerryd]

I don't worry about crocs or sharks.

If one comes near me while I'm in the water, they'd scurry away quicker than they arrived once they got a whiff of the water around me after I crapped my pants !

[Sir Burr]

Why I don't swim in:-

Swimming pools: Other peoples piss.

Lakes: Bilharzia and leeches.

Rivers: If it isn't too many dead bodies floating by, it's tiny fish that swim up your third eye and lodge themselves there with a dirty, great spine. My eyes are watering just typing this.

[suegha]

As a Diver, I take my chances. Statistically, the chances of being attacked by anything are negligible! More chance of scratching yourself on a rock...

Jaws did more damage to peoples confidence than it should have. Shark attacks are very rare!

Although I do sometimes wonder what would happen if I saw a big shark swimming my direction???

we are getting roughly one death a year here in Adelaide and quite a few lucky escapes from sharks

well Suegha, we know you dont get many sharkattacks in the Mersey, but here in Queensland they are becoming more frequent, a young women got taken off the front of moreton island last week, a 14 foot tiger shark was caught near Bribie , it had ahalf digested child inside it, the child was aboriginal or islander so this shark had come a long way, if the water aint got chlorine in it I dont swim in it, as far as sharks attacks being rare not in queensland mate!! nignoy

I did say 'Statistically'. Also I have never dived in the Irish sea, too cold. However, you will get sharks all around the British Isles. I dived off the SW coast of Ireland where sharks are common. Also the majority of my diving is done in the Tropics - warmer water.

[N&M]

I hate sharks, always think about them when in deep water. I seem to attract them.

Many moons ago while snorkling off a pier at a resort in some far flung tropical island. I was resting under the pier and watching the fish swim around. This pier ended at a rather deep drop off into the ocean, the reef fish hung around the edge and you could hang your head over the drop off and it just went and went.

Next thing down comes the cook along the jetty and throws in all the kitchen scraps. Next thing I was surrounded by feeding sharks and here was me hiding nehind the biggest pole I could find.

Another time swimming over a bomby with a spear gun, on another remote tropical island, i spied a nice big red fish. Speared it and instantly before I could lift it out a shark barreled over my left shoulder and grabbed the fish.

Another time while walking on a reef, in another remote tropical location, a small reef shark came and tried to nip at my ankles.

I just do not like the suckers.

Another time in a far flung tropical land I swam in a river lagoon. Later while working we found the half eaten carcass of a cow dragged into the water.

And then there was the time a croc grabbed me.....

[Wes Turner]

I always wanted to restle a crocodile, ther are more of them in Florida than in Australia alone.

As for sharks, they dont scare me but i wouldn't want to be alone in the sea on a broken waverunner with a cut on my toe, understand?