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MyFox Tampa Bay | Diver survives gator bite
TAMPA - A man diving for golf balls at a New Tampa golf course was in good condition Saturday after a gator bit him on the arm.
It happened at the Tampa Palms Golf and Country Club around 4:30 p.m.
62-year-old Dwight Monreal was diving for golf balls out of a pond near the 13th hole of the course when a gator grabbed him by the arm.
Two nearby golfers rushed to help.
"This diver emerge from the water and started screaming help," said Matt Johnson.
"The man had actually dragged himself up to the bank, and had his arm in the water, and the gator was trying to drag him down," said Tarah McNaughton.
Johnson grabbed a golf club and tried to hit the gator
"They were struggling, and it's head kind of came up out of the water and its eyes opened," Johnson said.
The gator let the man go, and McNaughton drove the victim on her golf cart ten minutes away to the clubhouse.
"He just said, 'I'm in pain, I'm okay, I'm okay, but I'm in pain, just hurry up'," McNaughton said. Paramedics arrived and got Monreal out of his scuba gear.
His shoulder had been dislocated, and he suffered several puncture wounds to his left arm.
He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa.
A trapper was called in to find the gator, and eventually caught one.
But McNaughton and Johnson insisted it was the wrong gator; that the one that bit Monreal was much larger -- probably around 10 or 11 feet long.
The trapper said she would continue to look for a gator that more closely matched the description.
Monreal was in good condition at St. Joseph's Hospital, and was expected to be released Saturday night.
MyFox Tampa Bay | Diver survives gator bite
TAMPA - A man diving for golf balls at a New Tampa golf course was in good condition Saturday after a gator bit him on the arm.
It happened at the Tampa Palms Golf and Country Club around 4:30 p.m.
62-year-old Dwight Monreal was diving for golf balls out of a pond near the 13th hole of the course when a gator grabbed him by the arm.
Two nearby golfers rushed to help.
"This diver emerge from the water and started screaming help," said Matt Johnson.
"The man had actually dragged himself up to the bank, and had his arm in the water, and the gator was trying to drag him down," said Tarah McNaughton.
Johnson grabbed a golf club and tried to hit the gator
"They were struggling, and it's head kind of came up out of the water and its eyes opened," Johnson said.
The gator let the man go, and McNaughton drove the victim on her golf cart ten minutes away to the clubhouse.
"He just said, 'I'm in pain, I'm okay, I'm okay, but I'm in pain, just hurry up'," McNaughton said. Paramedics arrived and got Monreal out of his scuba gear.
His shoulder had been dislocated, and he suffered several puncture wounds to his left arm.
He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa.
A trapper was called in to find the gator, and eventually caught one.
But McNaughton and Johnson insisted it was the wrong gator; that the one that bit Monreal was much larger -- probably around 10 or 11 feet long.
The trapper said she would continue to look for a gator that more closely matched the description.
Monreal was in good condition at St. Joseph's Hospital, and was expected to be released Saturday night.
