With one chomp, the reptile had Kona’s entire head in its jaws. “She’s facing it ... her whole head inside its mouth,” she said. Spencer said she immediately sprang into action.

"Her whole head was inside its mouth," Spencer recalled. "I stopped thinking and just dove on it, jumped on it and straddled it, as lady-like as that is, and was trying to pry its jaws open." ...

"Her whole head was inside its mouth," Spencer recalled to the outlet ... and was trying to pry its jaws open." Spencer managed to open the gator’s mouth using her bare hands, forcing it ...