18-year-old Timothy Delano was hospitalized in southwest Florida after an alligator bit off his left hand.
Delano was swimming with three friends in a Collier County canal around 9:30 p.m. Sunday when the alligator attacked. Delano was on a rock in the middle of the canal, but fell into the water. While he tried to get back on the rock, the 10-foot, 2-inch alligator grabbed his hand.
Delano and his friends managed to swim to shore and get into a car, where he called 911. A helicopter transported Delano to Lee Memorial Hospital.
Doctors were unable to reattach Delano’s hand, which was retrieved from the alligator’s stomach. However, Delano is in stable condition.
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.
A 77-year-old man lost his arm below the elbow on Thursday when he was attacked by an alligator while playing golf on Fripp Island in South Carolina.
The man, who was playing the 11th hole of the island’s Ocean Creek Golf Course, leaned down to pick up his ball when a 10-foot gator grabbed his arm and then dragged him into a nearby pond. The gator then went into a series of “death rolls,” a technique it uses to tear apart its food. That was when the man lost his arm.
The man’s golf buddies were able to free him from the alligator’s grasp and called 911.
Workers killed the gator and performed a necropsy on it to remove the man’s arm from the animal’s digestive track.
The arm was stored in a cooler in the hopes of re-attaching it. The man’s condition was still unknown late Thursday night.
A U.S. tourist got more then he bargained for when he was attacked by a crocodile while attempting to answer the call of nature in the Mexican resort of Cancun this week.
According to Mexican police 20-year-old Andrew Dales, from Dallas in Texas, confessed that he had been on a mission to relieve himself at the edge of the local Nicupté lagoon, in the popular tourist resort of Cancun, when the crocodile suddenly snapped at him.
He suffered ‘multiple bite wounds’ to his leg and neck and was also left with a head injury after the reptile knocked him to the ground, a police spokesman said.
A family having a picnic in Meda Crossing, Western Australia got a rude awakening over the weekend when a 12 foot long crocodile snatched their pet Lab just 65 feet from where they were sitting on the shoreline.
The dog had strayed away and was standing on the shoreline near a pool of water when the croc attacked at lightning speed, snatching the dog and retreating back into the water as the family watched.
Police found the remains of a 20-year-old man taken by a crocodile while swimming at night in the Daly River just south of Darwin, Australia.
The man disappeared while swimming with his brother across the crocodile-infested river at about 2am (AEST) on Friday. His wife was watching from the riverbank and told police she had seen a crocodile nearby.
Apparently the three had been drinking and the two men decided they would try to swim across the river.
The remains of the man were found upstream from where he was attacked.
A man living on a canal in South Miami has already lost 3 poodles (Spotty, Luna and Angel) to a giant, hungry crocodile. When Chris Marin and his family first moved in, they even had a swing out there for his kids to jump into the canal. Now the kids are sticking to indoor activities.
Marin and his family are packing up and moving outta there.
