Harrowing details of alligator attack that left mom Dina Spann’s arm ‘hanging off by thread’ revealed by son

An alligator attack victim’s son has recounted how she was left with her arm “hanging off by a thread” after the beast pounced while she was swimming in a river.

Dina Spann, 58, was enjoying a day with family boating on the Silver River in Florida’s Marion County when disaster struck on Saturday afternoon.

Woman holding a bottle of water on a rooftop terrace.
Dina Spann lost her arm after she was attacked by an alligator while swimming in a Florida river.Facebook/Dina Rae
Dina Rae (center) with her son Zach Guerrina (left) in the Silver River in Marion County, Florida.
Spann pictured with her son Zach Guerrina (left) and another man in a 2026 Facebook photo. Guerrina was with his mother when she was attacked by the gator.Facebook/Dina Rae
Dina Rae in a boat on the water wearing a life vest.
Spann’s son told The Post his mother was “calm as a f—king cucumber” after the gator attack.Facebook/Dina Rae

Her shocked son, Zach Guerrina, who was on the day trip with her, told The Post that bystanders used Spann’s bikini top as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding from her right arm.

“The gator came towards her and she tried to shoo it away with a stick and it attacked her,” Guerrina said. “She got on the bank, a boat pulled up, she got in there with them.

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