A California couple witnesses a man being mauled to death by a crocodile on the beach

Yetter said NBCLA“We just finished an evening walk… and we jumped in the pool, and from the pool we heard screaming on the beach. Chris and I are strong swimmers; we’re from Southern California (and)… so we jumped out of the pool to see what was going on.”

At first the couple thought someone was stuck in the current, so they jumped in a kayak to help.

Bury added: ‘There were no oars; there was actually nothing on the beach that helped. We were just kind of scrambling and trying to do what we could (and then) he got pulled under.”

Yetter continued ABC7 the crocodile’s “head was as long as my torso, its tail thicker than my legs.” She added: “The crocodile had him by the thigh.”

By the time the pair could reach him, the man had already been pulled underwater. The water was too cloudy to look down.

“By the time I got to him it was unfortunately too late,” Bury added. “It’s quite traumatizing.”

Yetter said she is “consumed by sadness and anger.”