11-Foot Gator Attacks Man in Florida!
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
An 11-foot alligator attacked a man at a Marion County nature park Tuesday. Pete Butt, 55, was diving in the Silver Springs Nature Park when he was attacked just before 6:00pm.
The alligator bit down on the victim’s head while he was testing water for the St. John’s River Management District.
“When we arrived on scene, we found the patient with lacerations to the neck and he also had a broken jaw,” said Miranda Iglesias of the Marion County Fire Department.
Butt was diving with a co-worker at the time, who heard the attack and came running to help. Butt was rushed to Shands Hospital in Gainesville in critical condition.
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