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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And luckily she popped up and the shark had let her go.
And that was, in that moment, I kind of assumed that it figured out she wasn't food and left her alone.
Since then, I've had some conversations with shark experts to kind of learn that that was naive, but I think that was good to be naive in that moment.
And I started paddling towards Leah and I didn't want to, I actually stopped paddling towards her and got her to swim a couple of meters to me.
because I didn't want to be in the middle of the blood where I couldn't see underneath me.
Because that was the scariest thing to me at that point.
If I could at least see the shark was coming, I could put myself behind the board or something like that.
And so I got her to just grab the nose of my board.
It's a long board, so it meant I didn't have to go right into the middle of the scene and just started paddling backwards, dragging her to shore.
I'm not on a rescue craft, so this thing is really long and slender and not very agile.
It takes me like 30 seconds to turn this thing around, let alone there being another person involved.
I've got a drink bottle cage and a rudder with a tiller, so I probably couldn't control it or get her on the board if she was strong enough to, let alone the fact that I don't think she was strong enough to get on the board.
Because we were so close to the beach, I just started paddling her backwards, trying to drag her.
And she became too weak to hold the nose, so I paddled back up to her and got her to hold the drink bottle cage, which is something easier to grip onto, which worked for quite a way of the way in.
But again, she became too weak.
And so I had to just go and grab her by the arm and hold her head out of the water, paddling backwards with one arm until she lost consciousness.
And I had to just keep dragging her to the beach until I could stand and just get her out of the water.
Reflecting on the moment, your brain becomes pretty simple when there's that much stress involved.
I kind of only really had two thoughts, which was, where's this shark?
I want to get myself out of the water and just get Leah to shore.
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