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Rescued British divers 'had to fight off Komodo dragons' after drifting in Indonesian waters for two days

By Daily Mail Reporter on 08th June 2008
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Three Britons who failed to return from a diving trip off Bali two days ago had to fight off Komodo dragons while they waited to be rescued, it was revealed today.

All five missing divers, including the three Britons, were found alive this morning.

The diving trip took place off of Tatawa island, near the Komodo National Park, which is home to the world's largest lizards, the Komodo dragons. The group was approached by the dragons and had to throw rocks to scare it away.

The area, where the Indian and Pacific oceans meet, is recommended only for experienced divers due to strong currents and whirlpools which can pull divers downwards.

The divers were last seen off Komodo Island, above

The group had spent nine hours adrift at sea before spending two nights on deserted Rinca island.

"We had nothing to eat. We ate some kind of mussels scraped from the rocks," one of the survivors, French diver Laurent Pinel, 31, told news agency AFP.

"On the beach, a Komodo dragon came amongst us yesterday afternoon."

Police said the group had been found by fishermen but Mr Pinel said it was national park rangers who discovered them.

An Indonesian search and rescue team evacuate five victims of the sea accident including three Britons

He said the divers had struggled against the current for several hours after they were swept away but then stopped swimming to preserve energy and tied their diving vests together.

He said late on Thursday night they saw an island and decided to make one more effort to reach land so they did not risk being swept out into open sea.

"We were exhausted. Everyone had cramps," Mr Pinel exclaimed.

Britons Mrs Mitchinson, Charlotte Allin and James Manning, along with two other divers, had been missing since 3pm local time (8am BST) on Thursday.

The alarm was raised after the group failed to return following a dive off the remote Komodo National Park in Indonesia.

The diving expedition was organised by the Reefseekers diving centre, which is run by Mrs Mitchinson and based in Labuan Bajo, a small fishing town on the Indonesian island of Flores.

The waters off the isolated park are attractive to divers but the area boasts strong and unpredictable currents which can create challenging conditions.


Mr Allin said Charlotte and her boyfriend James Manning, 30, were diving instructors who had been teaching scuba diving in Phi Phi, Thailand, for about two years.

He said they would be coming home soon and joked that he would "lock her up" to keep her safe.

Tiger shark: One of several species found in the area

The group of divers were thought to have drifted about 25 miles.

Local police chief Lt Col Buce Helo said the divers had drifted for more than 12 hours before arriving at remote Rinca island about 20 miles south of their dive site.

He said they spent one night on Rinca before being found by rescuers just before noon local time on Saturday.

Pariman, chief of the local port authority, said rescuers took them by motorboat to Labuan Bajo, a city on the western tip of nearby Flores island from where they were taken to hospital.