Welcome, Thomas, to the Wilderness Medicine Podcast.

And thank you, Daryl and Fred, for having me on the podcast.

So yeah, um, April of 2024, I'm a crocodilian biologist.

I was at a international crocodile meeting in Darwin, Australia at that time, and I got back in late April, and I heard about an alligator attack that occurred about 20 miles from my house here in Charleston, South Carolina, involving a scuba diver.

And all crocodile attacks or a- alligator attacks are noteworthy and important to record, but the details of this one really caught my attention.

Basically, what happened was, uh, the victim was scuba diving, diving for fossils.

It's, it's kind of a thing here.

But some of the other things you alluded to is wild pigs crossing, or are there fishermen that are chumming the water, thereby attracting these alligators? Is there anything or any type of responsibility that outfitters, wildlife managers, fishermen in the diving community should enact right now? Is anybody acting on any of these sort of interventions to reduce the ground zero problem?