Add The California Post on Google Horrific new video shows the massive crocodile that killed a 28-year-old man in Puerto Vallarta in front of a California couple.
Grainy nighttime footage captured the huge reptile with its jaws open near Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa after the deadly attack.
The fatal incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday at Marina Vallarta Beach, with Jalisco state police identifying the victim only as a 28-year-old man from Mexico who had been in the resort town for work.
His body was recovered about 12 hours later early Saturday morning.
Jamie Yetter, her fiancé Chris Bury and her teenage daughter were staying at the hotel and relaxing by the pool when they heard screams coming from the beach.
“We thought we saw a guy stuck in a rip current, so Chris took off down to the water, and I ran right after him,” Yetter said.
Bury jumped into a kayak without paddles in a desperate attempt to reach the man.
“There were no oars. There was really nothing at the beach at all to help. We were just scrambling, trying to do what we could,” Bury said.
“I was on the kayak right when he got pulled under.”
Despite the Orange County family’s efforts, they were unable to save the victim.
“They didn’t tell anyone it was dangerous,” Yetter told Surfer.com.
She explained signs near the beach warned of jellyfish, stingrays and crocodiles in the water, but her family initially mistook the crocodile symbol for an iguana.
“They didn’t tell us we shouldn’t go swimming. Even the next morning, I went down to the ocean. I assumed the beach would be closed. The beach wasn’t closed. There were no no-swimming signs,” Yetter added.
