Jeffrey Heim suffered a skull fracture in the attack, which happened last Sunday in Sarasota County. He needed 34 staples to close the wound. He also suffered puncture wounds on his hand from an alligator bite.The 25-year-old Tampa man thought he’d been hit by a boat propeller until he saw the alligator looking at him.”It felt very heavy and it really felt like it was moving very fast,” he told CNN. “It felt blunt. It felt like a blunt force.