DIVER BITTEN BY FISH
FURIOUS MASS ATTACK
OUTSIDE SYDNEY HEADS *
SYDNEY, 'May 3
Attacked by a mass of leatherjackets in 45 fathoms of Water outside Sydney Head-, a di\cr, H. Locke, had his hands badly .mauled and - WJ3 hauled to the suifaee screaming with ag°ny> with Wood pouiing from 42 bites, several being so deep that the bones were exposed. '
Locke, lecounting his experience, said: "They came at n\e from ali sideb. One bit my hand, and, as the blood flowed, the fish raced, for it pell« mell. • The taste of blood made then! more savage, and they lushed at mi with amazing fury."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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104DIVER BITTEN BY FISH Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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