A man managed to survive being attacked by four crocodiles while he was fishing for his dinner.
Alexander Chimedza was out looking for worms to use as bait in leafy ponds in Kariba, Zimbabwe when he was set upon.
The four scaly predators used tall grass to obscure themselves as they approached the man.
He was grabbed on the hand first by one crocodile which threw the fisherman into the water, twisting him around in a disorientating 'death spiral'.
Alexander was then snatched on the other hand and spun around further in the water, he told the Herald.
Realising that if he resisted his arm would soon be broken, he allowed himself to be turned around by the killer reptile.
The frantic situation became somehow even more dire when two further crocodiles joined the chaos, one grabbing him by the thigh and the other the Achilles tendon, breaking it.
Just as everything appeared to be lost, the fight back began.
Alexander's friends began pelting stones from the side of the water, raining down large pieces of rock on the aquatic mega-fauna.
As they did the stranded fisherman, as if following the unlikely seeming advice of a nature documentary, plunged his free hand deep into one of the crocodile's mouths.
"As I thrust my hand into the crocodile's mouth some of the stones that were being thrown from the outside must have hit the crocodile," he said.
"That, coupled with the large volumes of water that flowed into its mouth, must have led to its death because it let me go and I saw it seeming lifeless afterward."
Alexander managed to grab onto a stick being offered from the bank and was pulled to safety.
He was then rushed to Kariba District Hospital where he was stablished and then moved on to Mutenderi Hospital.
Over the past 40 days he was undergone several major operations and has had skin graft and metal plate procedures.
In the long run Alexander will mostly recover, beyond losing the movement in one of his arms.
He has thanked his wife Primrose for helping him get through the traumatic recovery.
"My wife has been behind me 100% and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be able to survive," Alexander said.
