‘Too big to handle’: Queensland man survives crocodile attack by prising jaws off his head

Marcus McGowan was attacked 40km off the Cape York coast on Saturday with an expert stating the croc likely realised it grabbed something too big to handle'

A Queensland man who survived a crocodile attack by prising the reptile's jaws off his head says he was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time".

Marcus McGowan, 51, was snorkelling near the Charles Hardy Islands, 40km off the Cape York coast, with his wife and friends when he was attacked on Saturday.