Crocs & Sharks

My wife and I have been coming to Zihua since 2008. I have been a Scuba instructor and commercial diver in Canada since the early 1970's. In 08 at Barra de Potosi, I was snorkeling just NW of the village. There was a large croc in the ocean and according to the Bomberos, they would sometimes slip out of the lagoon. However, these freshwater creatures are out of their normal environment and unless one accidently runs into a human they do not hunt for us. All that said, sharks are a different Kettle of fish (pun intended), especially Bull Sharks. Those nasty buggers are known a to be in the waters off Ixtapa and Zihua. We seldom see them because they normally hunt at night in deep water. It appears the attack was early morning which would seem to me to have been a shark. While in Zihua I swim in the Bay every morning for a couple of Kilometers and other than dive bombing Pelicans and the odd Manta, no 25-foot man made great whites.