Copyright (c) 2008 Derek Clontz/4-Page Media, Inc. All rights reserved.A young marine biologist narrowly escaped a horrifying death when she was snatched up in the crushing jaws of one of the most relentless killing machines on Earth – an African crocodile.
Despite the shock waves of pain that surged through her body, 23-year-old Dominique Vildeau battled the savage beast with her bare fists until it finally released its death grip, giving her time to swim to safety.
“I never saw it until it grabbed my leg and pulled me down,” Vildieu told me in a telephone interview from her hospital room in Kinshasa, Zaire, where surgeons struggled for hours in a successful effort to save her left leg.
“The first I knew of it was when I felt its teeth crunch into … story continues at derekclontz.com
