Kitesurfer Chris Keeping fights off repeated attacks by crocodile near Darwin beach, vows to go back in the water. A kitesurfer who fought off a crocodile as it attacked him numerous times off a Darwin beach says he will go back into the water. Chris Keeping, 29, was 100 metres off shore at Casuarina Coastal Reserve’s Lee Point, about 15 kilometres from Darwin, when he was attacked by the 2.5-metre saltwater crocodile about 11:30am on Saturday 16th May. “I usually look for crocodiles when I’m down there before I enter the water … and there was another kitesurfer setting up at the same time,” Mr Keeping told ABC Darwin radio. “I’d been cruising around for at least two hours … I went down in a bad spot, a hundred metres from the beach down the end near the point and the wind dropped off. My kite folded onto itself. “I knew I was in a bit of a bad situation because I was in deep water and I knew I couldn’t stand. I was floating around and kept constantly checking around me.” Mr Keeping said he was sitting on his board when he became aware of something in the water. …