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A shape materializes in the dark green lake and makes a beeline toward the swimmer. The water, thick with algae, turns to swirling white bubbles as the two shapes thrash about before the swimmer desperately heads back toward land. The video of the alligator attack on the swimmer on Aug. 3 was captured by a drone hovering above Lake Thonotossa, about 20 miles northeast of Tampa, Florida.
But the drone video isn’t the only evidence of the attack, because the swimmer, 34-year-old Juan Carlos La Verde, lived to tell the tale.