Alligator bites down on diver’s head leaving him with 34 stitches and puncture wounds

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WFLA. Speaking to Fox 35 he said he had only been in the water for about a minute before the incident occurred. “I came up and I just get blasted by what felt like a propeller, like a boat going 50mph.

It pulled me down with my mask off.“You never understand the power of a wild animal like that until you’re in its mouth,” he said.Jeffrey explained the alligator bit down twice on his head, while he desperately used his hand to protect his face.“I think my hand may have protected my face because I got a puncture wound in the top and a puncture wound in the bottom but it just happened so fast there was no way I could have defended myself,” he said."We just looked at each other and I didn’t flail around because that would have just triggered.