Crocodile launches itself onto Australian fisherman's boat with "jaws wide open"

Australian authorities are investigating after a crocodile jumped on board a fisherman's boat in Queensland while the man was fishing at a creek on New Year's Eve. 

The fisherman, identified by local media as Richard Brookman, told authorities he had been fishing for about four hours when he saw the reptile approaching, according to a news release from the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation. Brookman told authorities that he moved to the back of the boat to start the engine. The crocodile then swam under the boat, turned and launched itself "up and into the vessel with its jaws wide open," officials said. 

"I stood up to go back down to the back of the boat, then he went under and I thought, 'This is not going to end well,'" Brookman told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.