Eaten Alive on Discovery

Is anyone else watching this show tonight? I am happy that the "focus" was to bring more awareness to the plight of the amazon rainforest and the anaconda's natural habitat, but it seems like this is a poor (and dangerous) way to advertise it. Has any other snake owners (especially anaconda owners) been receiving a lot of questions/comments regarding this show? I just hope the snake ends up okay...

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http://fox8.com/2014/12/07/open-wide...tell-about-it/

I try to ignore it, mainly because I think Discovery was looking for attention, whether it be positive or negative, and for that I gave them no clicks. :colbert:

I agree, it was more to build ratings than educational. Really, they expected the snake to work its way around that diving set up? SMH

From what I hear and some clips I've watched on the web, it sounds like it was a disappointment. If I can ever find a way to watch without supporting or profiting Discovery, I suppose I could see it for myself.
Anyway I've been told that Paul Rosolie sissied out after it broke his arm. Sounds like it was a flop to me. I can imagine all the people watching it going 'ew gross animal' when they see how "scary" the "beast" is before finally being disappointed at the end. Of course, they didn't watch for the conservation message either so why would they care? Just reaffirms people's fears that anacondas can hurt people so therefor they're out to break everyone's arms. Because, you know, "they're evil!"

All in all, sounds like a failed social experiment to me. Upset some reptile lovers, and disappointed the general viewer in the process.

I didn't watch it and usually don't watch Disc any more. When they started chasing rating and letting the programming become fictional in nature I stopped watching.

I did watch it, and saw really nothing about conservation or even trying to educate people about these animals.

I recall a small little blip on the screen about saving the anacondas, but that was it.

It was essentially an hour and a half of them searching the amazon for the "giant" anaconda that he claimed to have seen. They never did catch it.

When it came to the eaten alive part, the guy asked to remove his arm and leg guards.

The snake did attempt to wrap it's mouth around the helmet, but there was no way that animal could have gotten past his shoulders if it had even managed to consume the head.

He asked for help when he felt his arm "torquing".


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CNN reported that he "spent" an hour inside the snake, they also said that he saw a 26 ft anaconda but the one that "ate" him was 18ft, I did not watch the show though so......

It was totally faked in my opinion. Either they are carrying a dead snake at the very end or a large deflated hose. I'm so glad I didn't watch this program. And Americans are mad the snake didn't eat him? What? It's a sick world. I hope if they did kill a snake to make this crap they get done for animal cruelty.
(If there is a another thread already on this, I'm sorry, please move if you need to.)
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/2131...ten-snake-vid/



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This show was rediculous, as already stated above it was an hour and a half of chasing (really diving in the water and walking around hacking stuff with a machette) a "giant" that was bigger than the record currently sat at, that he had seen, he showed a drawing he did, that looked like a kid drew it as "proof" the snake existed. I think they "caught" 2 wild anacondas, but I fast forwarded through most of it. There really wasn't much mentioned about conservation other than a few 1 liners. They talked about snake myths, mentioned titanoboa, then jumped to the "scientific" experiment. What cracked me up was the touted the team of "engineers" that worked on the suit yet there was no way for him to move around so they had to remove half of it, they stated that they were hoping to gain data on the force created from the constriction, but they only used one sensor and it was placed too low, so they collected no data. So it was a fail from a basic engineering standpoint as well. He pissed the snake off, it wrapped him, bit onto the helmet, then he tapped out, they over dramatised the "danger he was in" constantly referencing his heart rate, then he said now that the suit is tested I can use it on the giant that is out there, still eluding to the fact that he wants to be consumed. That guy was an idiot, the whole time I was hoping the suit would fail and it would crush him, but no luck, he just got a few bruises on his arm.

The snake never even constricted on him ..... It bit the suit a couple times, and then the poor thing was trying to escape.
The guy kept rolling over to get the snake wrapped around him to make it appear that it was squeezing him.
You could plainly see lots of space between the snakes coils, and the guys body. It never tightened up.
And when they said it was swallowing his head, they never actually showed it .... they showed the inside of the snakes
mouth, which was probably just a snake biting a camera lens.
Also, when they were catching snakes, if you watch carefully, a couple times you can see people just slapping the water,
and splashing, to make it appear that the snake was fighting, and thrashing more than it really was.