‘I wasn’t afraid’: Florida man bitten by crocodile recounts attack

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A South Florida man who was bitten by a crocodile in Everglades National Park over the weekend is on the road to recovery.

According to NBC affiliate WTVJ, Rodrigo Constain went out to sail his boat Sunday at the Flamingo Marina when his boat was knocked over and he fell into the water.

When he tried to get back onto the boat, he was bitten by a crocodile.

“I didn’t feel any pain, nothing,” he told the news station. “I don’t know why.” Constain said he never would have guessed that a crocodile had latched its jaw onto his leg.

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“I didn’t know what was holding me because I didn’t enter in panic,” he said. “I wasn’t afraid.”

Everglades National Park rangers found the 68-year-old with cuts on his leg. Constain told WTVJ that his wife and the rangers saw the crocodile in the water from the deck.

Constrain was airlifted to a hospital, where doctors told him the wound went as deep as the bone but there was no fracture.

Doctors told Constrain that it would take about a month before he could walk again.

On Tuesday, Constain was back at his home. “I am feeling good because I am alive,” he said.

According to WTVJ, Constain’s family set up a GoFundMe to help with hospital bills. Constain told the news station that he is thankful for the help he’s received so far.

“There’s only one reason that I’m here: It’s God,” he told WTVJ. “If you’re not with God, I wouldn’t be here. He was all the time with me and that’s what I think. I was not afraid, because when you believe in God, you are not afraid.”

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