Sez you!
Posted on 06/29/2026 8:25:25 AM PDT by V_TWIN
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A 31-year-old woman died after she was attacked by an alligator while swimming in a Seminole County river.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was swimming with friends in the Little Econ River on June 28 when the gator attacked, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.
The woman was taken to an area hospital, where she died, WFTV reported.
This was the third gator attack in Central Florida within the past week.
A gator bit a child in Marion County on June 27, while an alligator bit a snorkeler in the Rainbow River on June 21.
There have been more than 500 alligator attacks with 33 deaths since 1948, when the state started tracking attacks, WFTV reported.
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PING!
Swimming in rivers in Florida isn’t exactly the smartest idea.
Darwin at work...
I will never understand why people willingly put themselves in places with lots of water where there are things like alligators to feed on them.
Yep. We all did it but you had to be watchful.
Alligators in Florida:
Over 500 attacks with 33 deaths since 1948; ~33 deaths over ~76 years = about 0.4 deaths per year
Bears in the USA:
Over 180 fatal bear attacks in North America since 1784. The U.S. has approximately 1,000 bear attacks annually, but only 10 to 20 end in fatalities, with an average of 1 to 2 annual deaths.
Key Takeaways:
Despite bears having a much higher frequency of overall attacks (~1,000/year vs Florida's alligator rate), alligators are actually deadlier per incident. Alligator attacks result in death roughly 6.6% of the time (33 deaths / 500 attacks), while bear attacks are fatal only about 1-2% of the time on average.
However, bear attacks are quite rare—the chance of being attacked by a bear is just 1 in 2.1 million, and when hiking in backcountry, it's 1 in 232,613 individual travel days.
The chance of getting attacked by a 'gator while swimming in Florida seems to be 100%.
Just recently a local park here put up signs that say “ALLIGATORS OBSERVED IN AREA”.........
“””Florida woman killed after alligator attack”””
Talk about bad luck. Woman gets attacked by an alligator and then is killed.
**The chance of getting attacked by a ‘gator while swimming in Florida seems to be 100%.**
Yep, neither open nor concealed carry work very good in water.
Sad for the tragic death, just terrible.
Yeah ... why would someone kill her after such an unfortunate experience?
I do not understand why people even go kayaking in Florida’s waters. But swimming in them??? there are plenty of swimming pools in Florida and they have no alligators.
I’m not from Florida, but was told by some locals that if you see ANY body of water, one should assume it has alligators in it.
Sez you!
Drunk, stupid or Darwin. Take your pick.
Sad that she survived an alligator attack only to be subsequently killed.
A lot of gator attacks occur when people actually swim into the gator.
Swimming this past weekend with Coral snake in pool.
There’s a lot of ways to die an unnatural death in Florida.
Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US......sharks, water moccasins, rattle snakes, sinkholes, rip currents, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, and the latest....MALARIA.....all will kill you.
It ain’t all sunshine and Piña Colada’s down here. 😏
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