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

And they all had had the time while I was getting up to the beach to prepare themselves on the exact plan of what to do.

So when we put her on the ground, I just put pressure on them.

I want to kind of keep her injury, the details of her injury is a bit private, but put pressure on one of the main injuries to prevent the bleeding a little bit while they got the tourniquet on.

They did that all super quickly.

And I just looked around me and went, these guys have so much control of this situation versus me.

I'm going to step back.

And that was when I felt pretty comfortable.

In terms of the...

Like how I felt.

When I put her on the ground, I wasn't very optimistic.

And...

I guess that came from the amount of blood that I saw in the water versus how much I saw when I put it down.

I won't go into any more detail than that.

But that was what made it so impressive that when I looked around, went, where's my dad, where's my friends?

I took a breath to make sure I was all right and went over and checked the swimmers, the two girls that were right next to Leah, and just gave them a hug.

They were quite emotional, checked they were okay.

That was when I went back and put up the privacy screen that meant you couldn't see.

Yeah.

And they had already gotten her back breathing.

And so... Oh, that's good.

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