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Blake Gettys
2:26 - 2:54
"As it went by, the bear rotated and reached behind with its far arm and hooked my left thigh. But what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground."
“As it went by, the bear rotated and reached behind with its far arm and hooked my left thigh. But what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground.”
- Speaker
- Blake Gettys
- Timestamp
- 2:26 – 2:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai Peninsula
- Captured at
- July 3, 2026
From the transcript
As it went by, the bear rotated and reached behind with its far arm and hooked my left thigh. But what doesn't make any sense was the claw, it started from the front and ripped back. It came out and jumped over top of my artery and vein, reinserted, and finished cutting around the back. Had it gone right through, I would have been dead probably in 15 seconds. And then I was on the ground.