Published: October 04, 2018
Man, 23 and reportedly a backpacker, bitten when pulling up net on fishing boat
A young British man has died after being bitten by a sea snake while working aboard a fishing trawler off Australia’s northern coast.
The 23-year-old was bitten as he pulled up a net around noon on Thursday, when the vessel was about 70 nautical miles south of Groote Eylandt, an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory police said.
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