00:00A man in his 60s is in stable condition in a Perth, Australia hospital after being bitten by a suspected
00:06freshwater crocodile in Western Australia's North on Friday evening.
00:09The man who was on a houseboat on Lake Argyle with a group was bitten while swimming at the Hicks
00:14Passage area of the lake.
00:17Three other people were also bitten by the same crocodile while trying to help the man.
00:21He was flown to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
00:24There's an interesting little kicker to this story, okay?
00:26So the incident did not deter more than 400 swimmers who plunged into the lake on Saturday as part of
00:33the sold-out Lake Argyle swim competition.
00:35Are you going in? A lot of people being bit by crocs today.
00:38Event manager Glenn...
00:39Yeah, I'm going to go in.
00:40Glenn Taylor said while the route was changed for safety reasons, no swimmers pulled out of the competition.
00:46Yeah, the wife is going in too. She's in the middle of a period.
00:48Oh my God.
00:52A rep said we informed all the teams that they'd be going on a different, going a different 20-kilometer
00:57course, not going near that area.
01:00Lake Argyle is home to about 35,000 freshwater croctiles.
01:05Yeah, emeroids are bleeding, the wife's on a rag, but we're both going in.
01:08Which are all less aggressive than their saltwater counterparts.
01:12But the species can still attack when provoked, with a family dog narrowly escaping an attack near the lake just
01:18last month.
01:19Are you like, this bathing suit is made out of pork chops.
01:21They're a different breed in Australia, man.
01:23Yeah.
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