A diver in South Carolina is lucky to not just be alive, but to have survived with all his limbs intact after a harrowing alligator attack earlier this month. Will Georgitis was scuba diving for fossils in the Cooper River near Goose Creek, SC on April 15 when he spotted several large .
Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with the screwdriver he uses to pry fossilized shark teeth off the riverbed, the gator shook the diver and dragged him 50 feet (15 meters) down, Georgitis told The Post and Courier. The alligator attacked Georgitis on April 15 as he surfaced from his dive, nearly out of air.
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