# Meet my friend Utan...20ft American Alligator
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832
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**Created:** [August 2, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832 "2009-08-02T06:26:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/1 "2009-08-02T06:26:00Z")
Just got back from North myrtle beach. This is the second time I have been to this place called alligator adventure…the first time I have seen them Feed Utan…here’s some stats…
20 feet
weighs over a Ton
46 years old
Has been captive his whole life
Came from Thailand
the video doesnt even do its justice on how big he is. This is the biggest Alligator in the world on Display thats alive.
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### Author:  [@d\_gage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/d_gage)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/2 "2009-08-02T06:29:30Z")
alligator adventure was cool, but there have way to many gators and it gets old quick. BTW that thing is HUGE! i can’t remember if he was there when i was 2 years ago.
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/3 "2009-08-02T06:32:30Z")
> [@Hybrid Connection Snow Tire Sale](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hybrid-connection-snow-tire-sale/18815/76):
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> alligator adventure was cool, but there have way to many gators and it gets old quick. BTW that thing is HUGE! i can’t remember if he was there when i was 2 years ago.
yah he was…he’s been there for years
me and my girlfriend are into these type of things…we love that place.
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### Author:  [@d\_gage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/d_gage)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/4 "2009-08-02T06:47:11Z")
did you go to Ripleys aquarium?? i liked that place a lot also.
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/5 "2009-08-02T06:50:43Z")
> [@FS: PowerHouse bench](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-powerhouse-bench/21125/3):
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> did you go to Ripleys aquarium?? i liked that place a lot also.
yup…it was our second time there as well
we were sitting on the beach wensday and all of a sudden a good 4 foot shark came right up to the shore in ankle deep water. People started freaken out.
Same thing happened again to my girlfriends father the following day. Kind of freaky. You can see them swimming around with the fins out of the water.
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### Author:  [@d\_gage](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/d_gage)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/6 "2009-08-02T07:32:48Z")
No shit! that would have freaked me out also. We were supposed to go to Myrtle beach this year but we canceled it at the last minute because of the wild fires they were having. We ended up going to Charleston SC and then to Virginia beach. VB had dolphins swimming around all the time, it was awesome.
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### Author:  [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 8:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/7 "2009-08-02T08:02:04Z")
Wow. I was there when I was like 5 or 6, but I really dont remeber that trip. But that is pretty damn impressive!
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/8 "2009-08-02T09:26:59Z")
forgot to mention…
right after they got done feeding Utan in that video, they let anyone in the cage with him to take pictures…
I dont know about you guys but that is pretty stupid to let people in a cage with that thing to take pics. I hope they have a insane insurance policy.
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/9 "2009-08-02T09:35:47Z")
I wanted to go there when i went down to Myrtle Beach last year but never made it.
and there ware guys fishing on the beach and one of them cought a nice size shark, (4-5 foot) and everyone freaked out when he let it go.
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### Author:  [@waltbabyluv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/waltbabyluv)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/10 "2009-08-02T10:11:43Z")
damn, that gator is sick!
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### Author:  [@big\_red](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/big_red)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/11 "2009-08-02T10:19:17Z")
wow thats a big one
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/12 "2009-08-02T10:22:26Z")
> [@The OMFG it's snowing thead!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-omfg-its-snowing-thead/21130/23):
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> I wanted to go there when i went down to Myrtle Beach last year but never made it.
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> and there ware guys fishing on the beach and one of them cought a nice size shark, (4-5 foot) and everyone freaked out when he let it go.
yah when I was there last year a guy caught a good size one on the beach.
I tried fishing in the morning at 6am until about 8 and didnt have any luck…we have seen alot of guys catch good size sting rays and flounder.
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/13 "2009-08-02T10:35:01Z")
one of the days i was there ppl spent A WHILE digging a huge hole in the sand on the beach and when the tide went back down in the morning the next day, there was a shit load of fish in the hole… it was prolly 30ft wide and a good 5 feet deep… it was a pretty cool idea.
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### Author:  [@94Gt5.0](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/94Gt5.0)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/14 "2009-08-02T10:40:53Z")
Dayum, thats a big one!
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### Author:  [@SSmokinn\_SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SSmokinn_SS)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2009, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/meet-my-friend-utan-20ft-american-alligator/245832/15 "2009-08-02T10:42:47Z")
> [@NYSpeed chat!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-chat/13918/40):
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> one of the days i was there ppl spent A WHILE digging a huge hole in the sand on the beach and when the tide went back down in the morning the next day, there was a shit load of fish in the hole… it was prolly 30ft wide and a good 5 feet deep… it was a pretty cool idea.
damn I wish I thought of that lol