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General Topics, Questions & Support => Free-for-all => Topic started by: djkimmel on September 18, 2007, 12:54:20 PM
Huge Alligator Tears Snorkeler's Arm Off
AP
Posted: 2007-09-17 22:39:46
Filed Under: Nation News
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (Sept. 17) - A 59-year-old man's arm was bitten off by an alligator as he snorkeled in a South Carolina lake, but doctors were unable to reattach it.
Bill Hedden, of Summerville, was bitten by an 11-foot, 10-inch alligator on Sunday afternoon in Lake Moultrie... read (http://news.aol.com/story/_a/huge-alligator-tears-snorkelers-arm-off/20070917212609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001)
I fished in that area back in 2001. Lots of gators. One ate my lucky spinnerbait. I saw way more gators at Marion and Moultrie (Santee-Cooper) than I did at Okeechobee. Not as many really big ones, but there were a couple who came out to watch me fish every morning about 10 PM. They kept circling the boat - at a distance... but I always felt like they were trying to block the one exit from the bay...