I only saw one ‘gator that I thought was of particularly impressive size, in Florida. The speed with which it vanished into shallow water was amazing.
A 6-foot gator can easily kill an adult. It will pull a person down and spin a limb right out of its socket, if the human were lucky!
Had a dumb ass neighbor that used to put food on a tray and send it out into the lake and watch the gators tip the tray up and snatch the food, neat as you please. The current would drift the tray back to his dock. I kept telling him it was illegal to feed them and stupid, as it helped the lizards lose all fear of humans. I showed him a lima bean, which is the size of a gators brain. No room in there for empathy.
One day, he was waist deep, retrieving an empty food tray and a 15-footer came up next to him, looking for something to eat. He became an instant believer and threw the trays away. His pants, too, as he never could fully get the crap stains out of them.