Brave firefighters managed to get hold of a huge crocodile sharing a popular tourist beach.
The emergency service responders got hold of the mega-reptile seen near a Playa de Oro beach, close to a hotel.
Their mini-operation was carried out when authorities received a call about the killer croc on August 14, before finally catching it four days later.
Crocodiles are not particularly fussy eaters and are happy to chomp down on most meaty things in front of them - including humans - so the reports would have come as a concern.
The local fire service, Protección Civil Bomberos Puerto Vallarta, said it took several of their firefighters to get the writhing reptile under their control.
It was captured about 20 metres from the shore of the Sheraton Bugambilias Hotel in an operation commanded by firefighter Carlos Gerardo Orozco Cordova and biologist Idelfonso Ramos.
It was one of many recent incidents in the Puerto Vallarta area recently, according to reports.
On August 11, a body was found eaten by a crocodile in the Ameca River. A post-mortem was being conducted to determine if the body parts were the same as the leg found on the banks of the river on July 27.
Elsewhere in the country, a shocking video revealed the horrible moment an 11-foot crocodile swam past visitors at a lagoon in the Northeastern Mexico state of Tamaulipas with a man's body in its mouth.
Trapped in its fearsome jaws were the lifeless limbs of a man police said had ignored the warning signs not to go swimming in the area.
When authorities were called, police found that the crocodile had taken the man's body, in his 20s, into a nearby sewer.
It then took an hour to drag out the creature before they were able to tie a rope around its jaws. Only then could rescue services recover the body.
In the Tamaulipas of Altamira, a man fought a crocodile for around 25 minutes after he bit his eight-year-old daughter.
Fernando Martinez told the Tamaulipas Express: "I was fighting with the crocodile for about 25 minutes, several times he pulled my daughter to submerge her.
"I tried to open his snout so that he would release her, he bit her back and one arm, at one point the animal needed to breathe well and it was like that he let her go, I took the opportunity to take get her off."
