Charlie Vercoe

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799 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

Charlie Vercoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Straight Talk with Mark Bouris · Shark Attack Hero Shares the Story of the Terrifying Coogee Rescue · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

I have hazy details about how many people were around the situation at that point because I was pretty focused on the actual attack.

But I just wanted to get the attention of the lifeguards so that they could clear the water and then maybe get power craft out to help us.

They'd get in a rubber ducky or something like that.

Yeah, that was my hope, I guess.

So after that, it got a lot more violent.

Yeah, that's all I can really speak on is that she was just, whether it was pushing, whether it was getting dragged around, obviously she was definitely getting bitten at parts of that.

I just don't know the exact details around that.

And that was when the water started to get a bit dirty with blood.

Yeah.

There was lots of screaming.

And it, again, it's hazy details.

Like in that moment, what the sound was, wasn't important to me.

Yeah.

And so I feel like there also might've been a bit of silence where even she just didn't really comprehend what was going on.

Uh, but yeah, once the water got quite bloody, she actually got taken under and I couldn't see her anymore.

And I just went, well, now there's definitely nothing I can do.

Um, how far away is this stage?

About the same distance, 15 to 20 meters, just kind of hovering between that area of like,

All I want to do is go to the beach.

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