British divers survived after fighting Komodo Dragon

Three British divers swept away by powerful currents in the shark-infested Indian Ocean have revealed how they fought off an attack by a man-eating Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard.The group drifted 20 miles to the deserted Rinca Island in Indonesia by clinging to a log.They survived on raw shellfish for nearly two days and had to fend off the fearsome 21-stone lizard by throwing rocks at it.The group, which included Charlotte Allin, 24, from Devon, her Thai-based boyfriend Jim Manning, 30, Carlisle-born dive teacher Kathleen Mitchinson, a French man and a Swedish woman - originally set off on an hour-long drift dive off Tawa Besar island, 250 miles east of Bali, on June 5 afternoon but got caught up in treacherous currents.They were discovered by Indonesian fishermen on June 7th after fearing for their lives for nearly two days.A rescue boat spotted the group's inflated orange and red 'safety sausages' laid out as Xs on the rocks of Rinca Island.The group is understood to be suffering from chronic dehydration, sunburn and exhaustion.'We had nothing to eat.

Three British divers swept away by powerful currents in the shark-infested Indian Ocean have revealed how they fought off an attack by a man-eating Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard.The group drifted 20 miles to the deserted Rinca Island in Indonesia by clinging to a log.They survived on raw shellfish ... ...nearly two days and had to fend off the fearsome 21-stone lizard by throwing rocks at it.The group, which included Charlotte Allin, 24, from Devon, her Thai-based boyfriend Jim Manning, 30, Carlisle-born dive teacher Kathleen Mitchinson, a French man and a Swedish woman - originally set off on an hour-long drift dive off Tawa Besar island, 250 miles east of Bali, on June 5 afternoon but got caught up in treacherous currents.They were discovered by Indonesian fishermen on June 7th after fearing for their lives for nearly two days.A rescue boat spotted the group's inflated orange and red 'safety sausages' laid out as Xs on the rocks of Rinca Island.The group is understood to be suffering from chronic dehydration, sunburn and exhaustion.'We had nothing to eat. We ate some kind of mussels scraped from the rocks. And on the beach a Komodo dragon came among us,' the Daily Star quoted French diver Laurent Pinel, as saying.Kathleen said it was a miracle they survived.'I didn't give up hope.

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