A man who once filmed himself being eaten by a snake has recalled how he came close to death with another serpent years previous.
Eaten Alive was an America nature documentary which aired on Discovery Channel in 2014.
The once-off special focused on an expedition carried out by wildlife author and entertainer Paul Rosolie, who tracked down the world’s longest anaconda.
A man who once filled himself being eaten by a snake has recalled how he came close to death with another serpent years previous. Pic: Instagram/ Paul Rosolie
Rosolie donned a special suit and slahtered himself in pig’s blood and then allowed the green anaconda to attempt to eat him.
The suit was protective and allowed Rosolie to breath and not be crushed by the power of the anaconda.
The experiment didn’t end up going ahead as the snake happened to latch onto Rosolie’s arm leading the attempt to be called off.
US conservationist and author Paul Rosolie speaks at the Age of Union (Junglekeepers) press conference at United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on December 12, 2022. Pic: IVANOV / AFP
At the time, the show faced a lot of backlash as many felt the title had been deceptive due to the fact that Rosolie ultimately was not Eaten Alive.
Interestingly, that instance was not the man’s first time up close and personal with a snake, with a previous incident resulting in him almost being fatally injured.
Appearing recently on the Diary of a CEO podcast, he recalled learning from Steve Irwin that grabbing a snake at the neck was safer than by the tail.
Speaking to presenter Steven Bartlett, Rosolie recalled one moment that this almost didn’t fare out for him.
‘I ran in and I dove and I grabbed the snake by the head,’ he shared, ‘Big mistake. Wraps around my arms. The first thing that I realised was I had anaconda handcuffs.
‘Now I couldn’t release the snake if I wanted to because it was around my wrists, then the second coil came around my shoulders. I’m feeling, I can actually hear my collar bone start to flex the way a stick sounds right before it snaps.’
Fortunately, the conservationist wasn’t alone and his friends managed to free him from the death grip of the snake.