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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<\/p>\nA man who once filmed himself being eaten by a snake has recalled how he came close to death with another serpent years previous.<\/p>\n
Eaten Alive was an America nature documentary which aired on Discovery Channel in 2014. <\/p>\n
The once-off special focused on an expedition carried out by wildlife author and entertainer Paul Rosolie, who tracked down the world\u2019s longest anaconda.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Rosolie donned a special suit and slahtered himself in pig\u2019s blood and then allowed the green anaconda to attempt to eat him.<\/p>\n
The suit was protective and allowed Rosolie to breath and not be crushed by the power of the anaconda.<\/p>\n
The experiment didn\u2019t end up going ahead as the snake happened to latch onto Rosolie\u2019s arm leading the attempt to be called off.<\/p>\n
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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<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, that instance was not the man\u2019s first time up close and personal with a snake, with a previous incident resulting in him almost being fatally injured.<\/p>\n
Appearing recently on the Diary of a CEO<\/a> podcast, he recalled learning from Steve Irwin<\/a> that grabbing a snake at the neck was safer than by the tail.<\/p>\n Speaking to presenter Steven Bartlett, Rosolie recalled one moment that this almost didn\u2019t fare out for him.<\/p>\n \u2018I ran in and I dove and I grabbed the snake by the head,\u2019 he shared, \u2018Big mistake. Wraps around my arms. The first thing that I realised was I had anaconda handcuffs.<\/p>\n \u2018Now I couldn\u2019t release the snake if I wanted to because it was around my wrists, then the second coil came around my shoulders. I\u2019m feeling, I can actually hear my collar bone start to flex the way a stick sounds right before it snaps.\u2019<\/p>\n Fortunately, the conservationist wasn\u2019t alone and his friends managed to free him from the death grip of the snake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who once filmed himself being eaten by a snake has recalled how he came close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-280774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}