Posted on 08/20/2018 10:37:38 AM PDT by sodpoodle
At approximately 9:30 this morning, Sheriff's Office deputies,Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue and Sea Pines Security personnel responded to a lagoon off of Wood Duck Road in Sea Pines Plantation to a report of an alligator attacking a woman inside of a lagoon. When they arrived, fire personnel located the deceased woman inside of the lagoon and recovered her body, while deputies interviewed witnesses. Witness accounts indicate that the woman—who will be identified after her next of kin are notified—was walking her dog near the lagoon when she was attacked and pulled underwater by the alligator.
The Sheriff's Office Environmental Crimes Unit, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Sea Pines Security are on-scene searching for the alligator—reported to be approximately 8 feet in length. Additional information regarding the search for the alligator will be released later. Beaufort County Coroner Edward Allen scheduled an autopsy to be performed at the Medical University of South Carolina to determine the cause of the woman's death. The deceased woman's dog did not appear to be harmed during the incident.
Never walk your dog near the water where gators are present.
Dog = gator candy.
A problem we have in Fla. is people feeding them (which is illegal here by the way). That gets them used to being around humans, that seems to be when they get more dangerous than they already are.
Also:
“Sheriff’s Office Environmental Crimes Unit”
Never heard of such.
Alligators have become ‘comfortable’ wandering around housing developments, in gardens and near people. You don’t have to be near water to run into them.
Something in the environment did a crime..................
Wow I never knew gators were in SC. They be ugly and taste like rubber. Apologies to Cajun Freepers.
Alligators are common in SC, so she should have known better, unless she was a tourist of recent immigrant Yankee....................
Beaufort County Coroner Edward Allen: “This was no boating accident.”
8’ is not considered to be a big gator.
Oh, NOW I understand.
We had alligators on Camp LeJeune in NORTH CAROLINA when I was in the Marine Corps...................
The new team will police land and water to combat litter and boating violations, Sheriff P.J. Tanner announced at a news conference Tuesday at the Bluffton Oyster Co. The other partners are the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
It is if you are a 5 foot woman...................
Bald Head Island has Gators wandering everywhere. You must protect your kids and pets....and obviously your wife. Be careful walking at night. You are their snack.
Our family had just checked into a condo near where this happened several years ago - our 12 year old son was walking near a lagoon and foolishly ran to scare some birds - then from the opposite side a gator came up from the water with mouth wide open to grab a bird. I think my son soiled his pants - never saw it coming and was staring into the wide open mouth of a gator about 10 feet away.
Later we learned the gator had showed up a couple of days before, believe it got a little dog. Animal control people came and got it, just relocated it somewhere else.
“8’ is not considered to be a big gator.”
I’m sure you would consider it plenty big if it was latched on to you.
Hilton Head draws tourists from all over whom have never seen an alligator before nor even know they exist on the island.
A Darwin pool for sure.
They’re on the NC coast also.
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