Government researcher tells coroner’s investigation he had never before heard of a human being preyed upon by two crocodiles
were moored near a creek on Hinchinbrook, a large and uninhabited island just off north Queensland’s Cassowary Coast. It was a trip the pair had made every year for a decade.into Heard’s death heard the couple lunched aboard their yacht, before he set out on his fibreglass dinghy for a nearby creek at about 3pm to fish for barramundi – the prized sport fish of the tropical north, whose natural habitat is roughly synonymous with the saltwater crocodile.
Queensland’s environment department then became involved in the search and found, the next day, a human leg in the creek. At 4.86 metres long, the male crocodile was more than twice the length of Heard’s boat and almost as wide.The next day the team killed a 2.85-metre female crocodile and recovered more remains. Tattoos, “general facial appearance” and DNA testing confirmed both sets of remains were Heard’s, the investigation was told.
But given the size of the male crocodile, the fisher had “almost no chance of survival once attacked”. The size of Heard’s boat had offered “next to no protection”.
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