Kasey Edwards, 18, was swimming with some friends at Nubbin Slough, a canal near Lake Okeechobee, FL on Sunday when an alligator decided to rip his arm off.

The gator dragged Kasey under the water five times, then took his left arm off about 4 inches above the elbow. During the struggle, Kasey managed to gouge the gator’s eye and it finally spun around and swam off. Kasey didn’t even know he was missing an arm until he was swimming back to shore.

Later, the gator was caught and Kasey’s arm was found inside its stomach, but the arm was too damaged to reattach. Bummer.

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A Cambodian teenager is recovering in the hospital after an angry puffer fish attacked him in the groin!

The Khmer-language Koh Santepheap Daily ran a picture of the unnamed 13-year-old in a hospital bed with heavy strapping around his testicles, saying he was lucky to be alive.

The paper quoted the boy’s father, Sok Ly, as saying the fish had become enraged when it was accidentally trapped in the boy’s net and, when it was freed, had attacked the boy’s scrotum. Yeouch!

Cambodian legend has it that the bite of the fish is even more dangerous than its poisonous spines, especially for boys, and Cambodian boys are traditionally advised not to swim in waters where the fish is common.

The victim is expected to recover from Monday’s attack, but the extent of the damage had yet to be determined.

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An Irishman is recovering in the hospital after being attacked by a crocodile in Mexico over the weekend.

Sean Treacy (23) was swimming in Nichupte lagoon near the coastal city of Cancun when the crocodile attacked him.

Treacy, who was in Mexico to attend a wedding, received injuries to his upper arm in the attack and also suffered a punctured lung.

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Several German bathers at Berlin’s Schlachtensee lake have been bitten by what is believed to be a giant catfish!

After cooling off from the summer heat in a Berlin lake, Katharina Saxe now has a nearly 7″ bite to show for it. Local animal experts suspect a giant catfish lies behind the attack.

Saxe was taken to a hospital where she received treatment for the crescent-shaped bite on her calf. The RBB footage shows countless pinprick-like red marks on Saxe’s leg, rather than any deep puncture or laceration wounds.

And Katharina is not alone. Jonas Wegg, a teenager who lives near the lake, was recently swimming at night when he had an unpleasant underwater encounter, receiving a bite on his right calf.

Needless to say… swimmers are now avoiding the lake.

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the species can reach a length of 15 feet and a weight of 660 pounds. The largest catfish recorded in Germany was caught in 2000 in Kiebingen, near Rottenburg. It was 7.84 feet long and weighed 196 pounds. This one here was caught in Thailand.

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Jaws struck in the middle of the night at the Hawthorne home.

Mrs. Hawthorne was woken by her son’s screams but arrived too late to fend off the deadly fish.

The “attack” happened when 14-year-old Sam Hawthorne was sleepwalking and ran into a souvenir shark hanging on the wall of his nautical-themed bedroom.

He had hit the shark so hard that it’s teeth were embedded in his cheek and blood was “pouring from the wound”.

Fortunately, Sam escaped with just a small scar.

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Debbie Shoemaker was wading in waist-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico when she felt something ram into her face.

It was a pelican! And it’s beak totally skewered her cheek. Shoemaker was taken to the emergency room, where a plastic surgeon gave her 26 stitches.

Floridians know to watch for stingrays, sharks, and gators but pelicans are usually considered harmless.

Shoemaker was staying at a Treasure Island hotel and went for a swim. When the pelican struck her, she saw it out of the corner of her eye. “I immediately put my hand to my face, and blood was just gushing out.”

Dang!

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A 19-year-old man attacked by what was initially thought to be a shark on the Gold Coast, AU forced the closure of three beaches this morning.

David Weale suffered a small bite wound on the thigh while standing in about 3 feet of water. He felt a pain in his leg and grabbed onto something biting his leg, before it slipped away.

Despite his fears it may have been a shark, chief lifesaver Warren Young said it now appeared more likely to have been something less deadly.

It was a 1 to 2 foot fish, but evidence is pointing toward it being a barracuda rather than a shark.

Whatever it was, it had teeth.

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A 10-year-old Swedish girl died on Thursday morning after she was stung by a jellyfish on island of Koh Lanta (a popular tourist destination for many Swedes) in Thailand.

The girl went into anaphylactic shock after being stung.

She suffered a quick, hypersensitive reaction and was taken to hospital where doctors worked for an hour and a half but couldn’t save her life.

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Horny crocs are causing so much havoc in Papua New Guinea that authorities have asked licensed firearm holders to form a hunting party to reduce the crocodile population.

Apparently, crocodiles become quite agitated when humans venture into their breeding grounds during mating season. The amorous crocs killed a man last week, and earlier this month a kid from nearby Kali Island was attacked by crocodiles while diving with friends.

If the water’s a rockin’… don’t come a knockin’.

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A man was accidentally shot by a rescuer who was trying to free him from the jaws of a crocodile in northern Australia.

The victim, in his late 20s, was attacked by the croc while collecting crocodile eggs at a remote reptile farm. A coworker trying to save him fired two shots at the saltwater crocodile. One hit the croc, the other hit the victim. Bummer.

But the croc let go. The victim was flown to hospital by helicopter for emergency surgery for bite and bullet wounds.

He is currently in a stable condition.

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