'Dolphins saved me from sharks'
'The sharks circled Mr Dickson as he bled in the water'

  An Australian fisherman, rescued after 40 hours clinging to
  an upturned dinghy, says he owes his life to dolphins that
  chased off a pack of circling sharks.

  Thirty-six-year-old Grant Dickson's prawn trawler sank in
  rough seas off the coast of northern Queensland.

                       'Stalked' 

  Bleeding heavily and clinging to an upturned boat, Grant 
  Dickson described how a group of sharks had stalked him after
  his fishing boat had sunk.
  It was, he felt, only a matter of time before they attacked 
  him.

  Talking on Australian television, the fisherman said one 
  shark in particular was moving closer and closer, before the
  intervention of a pod of dolphin which moved in and scared
  the predators away.

  His ordeal lasted several more hours as he continued to drift
  in the Pacific ocean.

  Thoughts of his family, he said, gave him the determination
   to survive.

                          'Rescue'

  He was eventually rescued by a passing cruise ship almost two
  days after his trawler sank.

  By Phil Mercer
  BBC correspondent in Sydney
  Tuesday, 23 July, 2002, 07:13 GMT 08:13 UK
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2145887.stm

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