The Quadra Island man who took on a grizzly bear with a pocket knife four years ago is recounting his story of survival, asking British Columbians to give what saved his life.
Posted: Jul. 18, 2023 6:21PMFour years after he was attacked by a grizzly bear, Colin Dowall is hoping people will donate blood, which is one of the things that saved his life after the attack.
In 2019, Dowall’s solo backcountry bike trip in the remote coastal rainforest of Ramsay Arm 180 km north of Powell River, went wildly off track when a 150 kilogram grizzly bear attacked him.The grizzly charged him, attacking his stomach, arm, legs, and foot. While feeling the grating noises of the grizzly’s teeth on his bones, Dowler realized he had on him, a pocket knife.
“They hooked up a bag of blood and had a logger working as an IV pole holding a blood bag,” said Dowler, who said the loggers did two blood transfusions before he even got into the evac helicopter. He and the emergency room doctors credit the quick actions of the loggers and the on-site blood, as what saved his life.
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