You don't have to tell this guy to HTFU!!

[Teed]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Rescuers say an Australian kayaker broke his own leg to avoid drowning after his craft flipped over and became jammed in a tree in a surging river.

Paramedic Anthony de Wit says the man was among a group of white water rafters on the West Kiewa River in the northeast Victoria state when his kayak became stuck in a fallen tree on Sunday.

Dewit says the 38-year-old man broke two bones in his lower leg wrenching himself free.

He spent Sunday night in the river gorge being cared for by colleagues, who included a doctor, and emergency workers who hiked into the area before he was flown by helicopter out of the area on Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/W...ayak.ordeal.ap/index.html

[Clive]

I must be reading it differently.  I don't see that he broke his leg to, say, gain a position that let him keep his head above water.  More that, in the course of struggling to free himself, his leg broke.