As the 5m crocodile approached him in the water, David Hogbin had a choice.
Keep clinging on to his wife’s wrist as she desperately tried to wrest him from the infested waters, even though he could see that she was faltering, slipping dangerously down the bank — or let go.
“Dave’s final, decisive act was to let go of Jane’s arm when he realised she was slipping in, an act that likely saved her life,” his sister-in-law, the journalist Alexis Carey wrote on Tuesday. “In a world-shattering instant, Dave was taken by the crocodile.”
Hogbin, 40, a highly regarded GP and paediatrician, was hiking with his wife, Jane, and three young children on Saturday in Australia’s far north, when a bank gave way and he