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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Dec 6, 2010
Description: The SeaRey was dispatched to the main island to pick up our local guide.

Charlie is a Fiji legend. Everyone knows Charlie. He owns the Beqa Queen at Pacific Coast and had just returned from a fishing trip with the Prime Minister.

Charlie is one of the few Fijians holding a Master Captain license. He knows the people and the waters and he knows enough to stay away from Sharon.

Charlie has been diving Fiji his whole life. He was once attacked by a tiger shark after jumping in the water with just a mask to check an anchorage. He said as soon as he hit the water he saw the big shark near the bottom about 35’ below. It was mating season and he had invaded her territory.

The shark shook once and then rocketed upward. The big shark came right for his neck. Charlie fended her off with his left arm.

The shark took it and pulled him straight to the bottom. He shark had him and the only thing Charlie could think to do is to poke it in its eye. When it did, the shark let him go.

Charlie struggled back up to the boat where he was taken aboard in a flood of blood. The tendons in his wrist had been completely severed. He wrapped a towel around his arm and applied a tourniquet to his arm. Then he grabbed a bang gun and headed back overboard.

A crew member persuaded him to stay aboard but Charlie insisted on killing the shark. Instead the crew member went down with gun. From three feet away he blasted the shark in the head. It turned over and started shaking in its death throes.

When Charlie was told this, he wasn’t satisfied. He wanted to see the dead shark. When they went back under the shark was gone.

It took 36 hours to steam back to the hospital. Charlie almost died from loss of blood. The doctor said he probably had been saved by the ice that he had applied to the wound and rum he had drunk.
Date Taken: Dec 6, 2010
Place Taken: Pacific Harbor, Fiji
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 425, Yacht Tending
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Read what others had to say:

Charles Pickett - Dec 15,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    It was the Rum     
  
Kris Chana - Dec 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    Gives me second thoughts about diving in Fiji....still one place I would love to dive tho!!     
  
Daniel Paul Myers - Dec 16,2010   Viewers  | Reply
    KRIS!!!     


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