Posted on 06/03/2021 7:04:51 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
He found teeth all right!
A Florida man diving for shark teeth was bitten in the head by an alligator — and survived.
“I thought I got hit by a propeller, it hit me so fast,” Heim told WFTS. “It felt like a boat was going 50 mph.”
Dressed in a wetsuit, Heim had plunged into the river to look for megalodon fossils, something he does often.
The Tampa resident had just come up for air when he found himself between the jaws of a gator.
Fortunately, the reptile soon let go, allowing Heim to get his head back above the surface — where he locked eyes with the beast.
Heim was able to swim to shore, where he called for help. He was left with a fractured skull and had to get 34 staples.
“Your life is worth more than any shark tooth – or whatever you enjoy,” he said. “But I won’t stop diving, I’m just going to find safer ways to do it. Probably not in that river.”
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They are everywhere down here. Snapping turtles too. The big ones!
“Florida “natives” have been a minority in the state for several decades.
Heck, I personally know more Cuban Americans than Anglos who were born in the state and I have lived there three times.”
A guy from Miami heard me joking with someone that south Floridians weren’t really southerners. Boy, did he set me straight....with his Brooklyn accent.
If times get hard enough, people will turn again to both as a food source. Not for me though, a city boy to the core.
I’ve eaten both. I really didn’t mind the gator, but the turtle had a seaweed type taste to it I didn’t care for.
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