<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>334860</docID> <postdate>2024-12-08 07:35:59</postdate> <headline>Couple stalked by giant crocodile after car washed away</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-334861" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/crocodile-SOS-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="601" /></p> <caption>An SOS sign led rescuers to a couple stalked by a giant crocodile after their car was swept away.</caption> <p><strong>A missing couple who spent two days being stalked by a crocodile after their vehicle was swept away has been airlifted to safety.</strong></p> <p>The pair, aged in their 50s, spent three days stranded in the Gulf Country northwest of Staaten River National Park in Queensland after their four-wheel-drive washed away in crocodile-infested flood waters.</p> <p>The couple told rescuers they were stalked by a giant crocodile for two nights as they endured 40C heat with no food, drinking only from the river.</p> <p>The couple had tried to drive through a river crossing when their vehicle was overcome by a large wave of floodwater.</p> <p>They told rescuers they had to scramble out the passenger window to escape, with the male driver swimming back into the vehicle to free their two dogs.</p> <p>Without phones, the couple said they wrote two large SOS signs in the dirt.</p> <p>A friend reported them missing on Saturday after they failed to arrive in Kowanyama after setting off from Normanton on Thursday.</p> <p>A LifeFlight rescue crew took off from Mount Isa base on Saturday morning and located the couple and their dogs after seeing the SOS sign.</p> <p>The pilot was able to land the chopper on the road beside a river before Queensland Ambulance Service flight paramedics assessed the patients.</p> </body>