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River.Monsters.S06E03.River.of.Blood
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00:00My name is Jeremy Wade, freshwater detective and angling explorer, and the
00:08place that holds endless mystery for me is the Amazon. Now I'm heading back on
00:15the mission of a lifetime. Over the course of a whole year, I'll go
00:21further and deeper into more remote and unknown, River Monsters territory, than
00:30ever before. The waters of the Amazon infiltrate beyond the rainforest into a
00:37desolate and dangerous hinterland of rivers and marshes, where I've recently
00:42heard a report of a brutal underwater mutilation that happened in an instant.
00:51A cruel cut that severed a young man's prospects. But investigating here isn't
00:58going to be easy. This is a forgotten, often lawless place, where some of the
01:04waterways hide desperate criminals alongside bloodthirsty predators. But
01:10it's here I have to confront the secret slasher that stalks Argentina's river of
01:17blood.
01:18A single lifetime is not enough to explore a wilderness the size of the Amazon. But the predator-filled
01:22waters don't halt at the edge of the immense tropical rainforest. They creep in the
01:51sea and creep out, tentacle-like, into a cooler realm of sprawling swamps and wetlands.
01:59An area almost four times the size of Texas.
02:04Others may balk at the prospect of hunting down new river monsters out here. But when I hear
02:10stories of attacks, I have to go.
02:15One particular story has reached me of a bloody assault on a young man's manhood in the Paraná
02:21River. It's time to open a new case.
02:30The Rio Paraná is the massive freshwater artery coursing through this region. It flows from the
02:36wetlands of Brazil for 3,000 miles until it meets the South Atlantic.
02:45I'm heading into its convoluted maze of waterways to find the source of the story.
02:51Like much of Argentina, this is cattle country. Despite the risks of flooding, some ranchers still
02:59use the marshy islands for grazing.
03:06I know enough Spanish to ask if he's heard about the mutilation incident.
03:28Not far from here, there's a story of a young lad actually having his penis more or less amputated.
03:41It sounds like the report I heard is true, but he doesn't know what creature was responsible.
03:47He says the most dangerous fish in the water here is the stingray.
03:53I came face to face with this venomous freshwater giant on my only other investigation on this river.
04:00There it is, there it is, there it is, there it is, there it is, there it is!
04:04I doubt a ray is capable of causing the damage I'm hearing about. I want to ask the victim
04:09himself if he has any idea what attacked him, so I inquire where he lives.
04:14He doesn't know exactly where, but it sounds like it's a little bit further down the river here.
04:29On my way, I can't resist getting a line in the water to see for myself what's down there.
04:35I've left the equatorial endless summer for a place with distinct variations in temperature,
04:41arriving at the end of this region's surprisingly cold winter.
04:45These stories I've been hearing of body parts severed. I would normally think straight away of red-bellied piranhas,
04:52but this far south, in water that gets as cold as this does, as far as I'm aware, they're not here.
04:58So, um, it's got to be something else.
05:02I can discount the venomous stingray. The stabbing spine on its tail is potentially deadly, but it couldn't amputate genitals.
05:12But there is a fish I know that can inflict genital mutilation. The paku, sometimes called the ball cutter.
05:22But it only became carnivorous when people moved it to the other side of the world, where vegetation was scarce.
05:29This eerily human-toothed beast is naturally vegetarian, here in its South American home,
05:36where I've never heard of it causing any trouble.
05:41Because I'm after something with a taste for flesh, I'm going to fish with the bloodiest bait I know.
05:52This being cattle country, this is a bit of cow's heart, nice and bloody, very fleshy.
06:00And, well, that should get the attention of any carnivores down there.
06:07What I'm doing, I'm just riding close to some branches here.
06:11That's a fish, huh?
06:12Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:13What I'm doing, I'm just riding close to some branches here.
06:18It's a very strong fish in this current.
06:19Okay, here we go.
06:20What's that?
06:21What's that?
06:22The fish that took the cow heart bait is one I've never caught.
06:26A boger.
06:27Here we go.
06:28This fish, definitely carnivorous.
06:29Looks a bit carp-like.
06:30But this fish has what carp-like.
06:31But this fish has what carp-like.
06:32What I'm doing, I'm just riding close to some branches here.
06:37Ah!
06:38It's a very strong fish in this current.
06:41Okay, here we go.
06:42What's that?
06:43What's that?
06:46The fish that took the cow heart bait is one I've never caught before.
06:51A boger.
06:52Here we go.
06:53This fish, definitely carnivorous.
06:55Looks a bit carp-like.
06:57But this fish has what carp don't have.
07:00Oh, there's teeth in here.
07:02Just having a close look at those teeth.
07:05Its scientific name, Leparinus, describes its rabbit-like teeth.
07:10But this is not the hardware of a friendly vegetarian.
07:14I've heard bogers can grow bigger than this.
07:17But even so, its mouth is not nearly wide enough to bite my finger.
07:21Although it's quite strange to see teeth in a fish like this,
07:24I don't think this is responsible.
07:26In fact, I'm certain of it.
07:31Explorers name this land Argentine after the silver they hope to find here.
07:37Once a land of plenty for settlers from Spain, Italy and Britain,
07:43now its fortunes have faded.
07:48Like many people in these remote backwaters,
07:50the young man whose penis was severed lived on the margins of society
07:55in an all-but-forgotten settlement.
07:57The red flags are the sign of a renegade saint who locals revere.
08:09This is a shrine to Gauchito Hill in this region of Argentina.
08:13He was something of a Robin Hood figure, help the poor people.
08:17You have to leave offerings, cigarettes, wine.
08:20But Gauchito Hill himself worshipped another saint of darker, more ancient origins.
08:26There's also another smaller figure in there.
08:29And this is something that translates to the saint of death.
08:32It's said that San La Muerte can protect his followers from going to prison.
08:38Which is why many hardened criminals, and even murderers in this corner of Argentina,
08:43also make offerings to him.
08:50A woman in this village says the victim's family have moved to the big city.
08:55But his uncle is still here.
08:58He watches my approach suspiciously.
09:01Perhaps because I'm not from around here.
09:04And people asking questions can often be connected to the police.
09:09Here, this gentleman will tell you the story of what happened to Gervasio.
09:14Yes, come in.
09:16Come in.
09:18But in the end, he agrees to tell me about the horrific event
09:22that changed his nephew's life forever.
09:39In an isolated backwater of Argentina, I'm investigating horrific reports
09:45of a creature that brutally severs human extremities.
09:52A man named Tilijo agrees to tell me exactly what happened to his nephew Gervasio
09:57on a day that neither of them would ever forget.
10:00Gervasio went swimming after school with some friends.
10:12The boys were from poor gaucho or cowboy families
10:16and owned only one set of clothes.
10:18So they went skinny dipping.
10:20Suddenly something bit him.
10:38The water turned red with blood.
10:51Something had severed through his penis
10:55and had removed part of a testicle.
10:59It was a rapid strike which cut like shears across his genitals
11:04but left them hanging from a flap of skin.
11:09So what did this clearly had a very powerful bind
11:12but possibly significant that it didn't cut clean through.
11:16Significant also that where this happened,
11:18it was the side of the water is where people go swimming,
11:21where animals go, so the water was cloudy.
11:23So nobody actually saw what it was that did this.
11:27Gervasio survived the attack
11:29but when I ask where I can find him,
11:31his uncle tells me that he's since died,
11:34but from an unrelated illness.
11:43This is only the second time I've investigated attacks
11:46on the shores of this vast river.
11:51Most of what lurks underwater here is still a mystery to me.
11:59Tellizio said villagers regularly used the stretch of water where it happened.
12:06It sounds like the place where Gervasio went bathing
12:09was also the place where everybody cleaned the fish.
12:13Gutting this fish here, what's happened immediately?
12:15Loads of small fish have come in,
12:17attracted by the scent of the blood and guts going in the water.
12:21People were inadvertently chumming the water
12:23in the very place the boys chose to go swimming.
12:26As can often be the case,
12:28they were the unknowing architects of their own misfortune.
12:31If you have a place where people do this every day,
12:34the fish learn that that is a place for easy pickings.
12:37And what they're doing is they're rushing in
12:39and they're trying to grab morsels in the water.
12:43And unfortunately for Gervasio,
12:45a large fish mistook his extremities for food,
12:49with disastrous consequences.
12:51If a large and aggressive predator has become fearless of humans,
12:57then there should be evidence of more attacks along the river.
13:03But I've been warned that some stretches of the Rio Paraná,
13:06where it forms the border between Argentina and Paraguay,
13:09are hotspots for stolen cars leaving the country
13:12and for fake luxury goods and drugs coming in.
13:17Careless investigation on this remote waterway
13:20threatens to be dangerous both below and above its surface.
13:29Asking a fisherman how his day is going seems innocent enough.
13:33But has he heard about any attacks on the river?
13:49Now that's very interesting.
13:50He's just told me about a case of a couple of people
13:53looking for a motor that had dropped off a boat.
13:58One of the men was underwater looking for the outboard motor.
14:01When something bit him.
14:07And when he came to the surface,
14:09two of his toes had been taken clean off.
14:15Just severed.
14:17I asked, is that the only thing?
14:18He said, no, no.
14:19There was another case near here.
14:21Some people were swimming in the river.
14:23A child had something bite their leg.
14:26And when they actually pulled the child out,
14:28the child was screaming, crying.
14:31They found a piece of leg missing.
14:34Because it's a place where people generally like to get in the water,
14:38the authorities poisoned that stretch of river
14:41to kill whatever it was in the water.
14:42I'm hoping the effects of the poison have dissipated.
14:48Because I've got work to do.
14:57I don't yet know whether I'm after a sight or scent hunter.
15:00A piece of smelly fish that's visually reminiscent of the body part
15:05might appeal to both.
15:06Here we go.
15:07Fish on.
15:08Yes.
15:09That is extremely piranha looking.
15:10Apart from the colour.
15:11That's...
15:12the sort of size...
15:13the size...
15:14the size...
15:15the size...
15:16the size...
15:17to go.
15:18I don't know.
15:19..is I just said, no, no, no...
15:20Oh, no, no, no.
15:21there's no, no, no, no.
15:22in the water.
15:23They made it so...
15:24the size.
15:25The size.
15:26Here's a hint.
15:27There's a hint.
15:28Yep.
15:29Now, the size.
15:30Here we go.
15:31Fish on.
15:32Yes.
15:33That is extremely piranha looking.
15:35Apart from the colour.
15:36the color that's the sort of size you'd expect from a black piranha which to my knowledge we
15:42don't have here there are more than 60 species in the piranha family and many change shape and
15:49color as they grow so they can be notoriously difficult to identify but locally this is called
15:55a palometta it's a piranha that's adapted to life in colder water it's going to be interesting to
16:01unhook because normally with the piranha you you grab the body the body of this is so large it's
16:07going to be quite hard for me to hold it with one hand a very impressive animal these teeth are
16:19surgically sharp and i think this could be the top suspect for what severed the diver's toes
16:25but i don't think the jaws are big enough for the single cut across her basio's genitals
16:36sometimes attacks leave a signature a wound that i can read tooth marks can be the biggest clue to
16:43the perpetrator's identity i need to track down more victims
16:48and further along the river i find a village cursed by attacks from creatures terrorizing argentina's
16:58river of blood
17:05just months after my investigation residents of a town on the rio paraná had an unexpectedly bloody christmas
17:11find out why after this
17:13just months after my visit 60 residents of the town of rosario were bitten on their hands and feet in
17:21the rio paraná on christmas day attacked by palomettas probably protecting their nests
17:32i'm in the heart of a sprawling system of rivers and wetlands that spread south from the amazon basin
17:38hunting down a river monster that's been slicing into people along these remote shores
17:47i find more victims in a riverside village this time not people swimming in the river but fishing
17:55i'm told a boy lost his finger to a palometta but something much larger attacked his stepfather
18:02the man was fishing with a hand line
18:09and got a strong take
18:13but when he brought the fish into the boat it slipped off the hook and bit deep into his ankle
18:21he was terrified not because it might bite him again but because the thrashing snapping bees
18:27might attack his toddler daughter who was in the boat with him
18:32further into the village i find the brutalized family
18:46the little boy saw that it was a palometta that took off his finger
18:50and luckily for me his stepfather also recognized the creature that bit him
18:54is not a name i've come across before he tells me it's much bigger than the palometta
19:04and he's not the only man who's been attacked by one in this village
19:08he's not the only man who's been attacked by one in this village
19:18and he's not the only man who's been attacked by one in this village
19:20claudio torres had a strong piraju on the line earlier this year
19:25when it leapt out of the water still on the hook and sunk its teeth in his knee
19:32there are no proper medical facilities out here and the wound was so deep it took a month to heal
19:37when i track him down claudio torres has a grisly souvenir
19:45this is the the lower jaw of this fish jagged teeth
19:51there's actually two rows there's another slightly smaller row inside
19:55i've never seen teeth quite like this the nearest thing is a snake head but i've never heard of them
20:01turning up here i can clearly see where the upper and lower jaws latched on it indicates the potential
20:12size of the beast could appear as you be responsible for jevasio's horrific genital mutilation
20:19the fishermen also use another name for the creature attacking them this is
20:23he says that some people also call this fish the river tiger not only because it's a very effective
20:32predator but also the coloration he says it's a yellow coloration but with black stripes
20:39river tiger seems highly appropriate for this fearless fish that's tearing into people up and down
20:45this river i'm told however that in the colder months of the year this tiger doesn't stalk near the
20:51shore but in the deep water of the main river channel
20:59i've seen the dental hardware of some of the fish in this river already so i'm going to use robust
21:05artificial lures there's a huge amount of water to cover the name parana means like the sea
21:16so i'm going to fish from a moving boat
21:22trolling the lure about a hundred yards behind
21:25on low diameter braided line to cut through the water and get the lure down deep
21:34there's a nice rhythmic vibration coming up the line the rod tips wobbling away there
21:39that tells me that the lure is actually working nicely it's wiggling away
21:51it's running it's running something very strong has struck and the battle commences
22:03taking line taking line the fish is taking line you're hooking the fish at a long distance and this
22:09fish has also run so i've got line to make up it's actually quite tiring work
22:15oh it's going to take a line taking line taking line taking line down yeah this is a big fish
22:21this is a big fish whatever's taken the lure definitely outsizes both boga and palometta just
22:28hoping everything holds in theory this is very tiring for a fish to have pressure from directly above
22:36but this fish is is absolutely resisting not in fact more than resisting it's actually taking mine
22:44this could be my only chance to come face to face with the river tiger
22:48but it's so strong i'm worried i might lose it
22:52i'm on the hunt for the river tiger a fish that's brutally slashing the inhabitants along a remote argentinian
23:09river but the fish i've hooked is such a strong fighter i'm worried that i might not get to see it
23:15okay my back is starting to ache my back starting to ache oh i've got a slight shake of the
23:25case of the trembles here my arm
23:30this fish isn't yet tired
23:32it's been fighting me for half an hour and it's showing little sign of tiring
23:42just taking lines slowly let it run run run run run run every time you run like that you're tiring
23:47yourself out then something shifts this seems to be getting a little bit more agitated which is not so
23:55much a sign of increasing strength that's getting near to the boat coming up in the water coming up
24:00subindo subindo uh there's bubbles coming out there's bubbles coming up
24:03this is a surubi a powerful predatory catfish this is the biggest one i've ever caught so i want to
24:18take a really close look at this 80 pound monster
24:24this streamlined predator massively outsizes the palometta
24:29it's got hundreds of tiny teeth that function like gripper pads to seize and hold fast onto prey
24:35fish but they're not going to do any serious damage to human flesh i've got no qualms at all about
24:41putting my hand in there no way am i going to lose a finger no way is that going to take a lump of flesh
24:47out of me so as impressive as this fish is it's not the one that i'm looking for
24:51my epic battle in this gargantuan river has brought up a real monster but not the river tiger
25:04with the cold weather working against me i really need some local intelligence to home in on the lair
25:10of the river tiger
25:18one man tells me the river tiger is so aggressive and fast that it seems to appear from nowhere
25:30if it smells any blood in the water anything like that it will come it will attack
25:34the people are powerless to protect themselves so it's no wonder some put their faith in the cowboy
25:42saint
25:46the real man behind the myth was a gaucho or cowboy who was hanged for his attempts to help
25:52the poor of this region a story that resonates to this day
25:55for the young man jefacio growing up in the macho gaucho culture where people learn to ride almost
26:04before they can walk losing his manhood to a river monster must have been a very cruel blow indeed
26:13when i asked tomas torres where i can find the river tiger he tells me the water is too cold for
26:18me to hunt them here at this time of year for any chance to come face to face with one now i must go
26:26to the great wetlands that are connected to the river where the shallower waters are sometimes warmer
26:36roads can't penetrate these desolate virtually uninhabited marshes
26:41few venture in other than the gauchos who graze cattle around the shifting fringes
26:49are they
27:07he says it's quite treacherous a lot of what appears to be land isn't land at all it's there's
27:13water underneath you step on it you go through he also says that the floating
27:17reeds constantly shift in the wind redrawing the channels they say a
27:24murderer has been on the run for two years out here but the police can't
27:29track him down is the river tiger out here too it is but it's not easy to
27:37catch I just got this hook out is that the kind of thing I need yet you need
27:43that is a fish that has a lot of force when it attacks a lot of force in its
27:49bite in its jaw something smaller than that is just going to get destroyed in
27:54exchange for some valuable hooks the gauchos agreed to take me to one of the
27:58few boatmen who know the way around these uncharted waters
28:03but that means joining their cattle droid through a near freezing river
28:33early the next morning the boatman Tullio agrees to take me out into the
28:52remote caiman infested channels
28:54this vast wetland almost twice the size of the Everglades is known as the
29:07esteros del Ibera
29:13I've traveled 500 miles on the hunt for the river tiger and the waters I find here
29:19are not what I expected the indigenous Indian name Ibera means bright water it's
29:26amazingly clear but unfortunately what that means is that anything living there
29:30is going to see me before I see it
29:34Tullio tells me the only way to outsmart the river tiger here is to fly fish
29:40casting a fish-like stream allure from a distance on a virtually invisible leader I'm
29:49giving it life by stripping the line in with my hand so it shoots forward in
29:53little darts so it's mimicking a small fish and anything that is carnivorous
29:58down there might be tempted by that
30:00I just hope these waters in the forsaken heart of the marshes are warm enough for
30:10the river tiger to be hunting
30:26this is the right color for what I'm after all I have to do now is get a close
30:31look at its teeth
30:38I'm in the middle of a caiman infested swamp in a forgotten corner of Argentina
30:50hunting down an aggressive fish that I've never encountered before the fearless and
30:56bloodthirsty river tiger yeah I recognize the fish on my line as one of South
31:05America's greatest freshwater fighters the right color for what I'm after one
31:09that's notoriously difficult to keep on the hook
31:26okay yeah well I can see stripes I can see stripes so I think this is it my guide
31:37Tullio confirms this is the river tiger also known here as the Pilar shoe but I
31:42know this fish as the golden Dorado a creature I've only seen a couple of times
31:47before it's just like a living bar of gold so gold they named it twice
31:53Dorado is also the Spanish word for golden as in the fabled city of El Dorado
31:58this muscle-packed beast is a vigorous fighter and isn't taken easily its
32:05stamina on the line is legendary and beneath its glittering gill plates the
32:10hefty jaw muscles but are the source of its phenomenal biting power
32:15right I don't want to get too close but that definitely has teeth there and I'm
32:20thinking particularly if you get near the angle of that jaw it's gonna be a bit
32:23like a bolt cutter the saw like rows of teeth are partially concealed by flesh but
32:30when pressures applied they sink in deep I've heard Dorado can grow to around 70
32:37pounds I can scarcely imagine the damage a big one might inflict but if I'm to
32:43prove that Dorado was responsible for her Basio's genital mutilation I have to
32:48find out I think what I really need is to catch a bigger one of these
32:52but that's not going to happen here away from the hot heart of the Amazon I'm
33:01hostage to the seasons Tulio tells me that in winter there's only one place to
33:07find very large Dorado's the Rio Uruguay
33:15this other great river is connected to the Paraná and Dorado's patrol both but in
33:22the winter the only place the biggest fish are still active is on the Uruguay below a dam that
33:31stops their prey from moving upstream here does enough food for them to hunt in deep water whatever the
33:39temperature this dam is home to giants this enormous structure is Saltagrande Dam it's a 10,000 foot long wall of concrete and steel linking Argentina and Uruguay and behind it is a 300 square mile lake untold billions of cubic feet of water and what they do is they release that water through the turbines
33:46generating electricity and it's generating electricity and it's generating electricity and it's in the crazy turbulence and it's in the crazy turbulence beneath the turbines that this super predator is in the
33:53crimes
34:00dams are the perfect for big fish
34:18dams are the perfect haunt for big fish the turbulent outflows replicate rapids and waterfalls where large predators can conceal themselves and thrive as the water pummels smaller fish
34:33and it's in these dangerously convulsing waters that I have to go but this high security installation is tightly controlled so I've had to negotiate special access but that's by no means my biggest challenge here
34:47I'll have to deploy some of my toughest tackle to withstand the onslaught of the Dorado's merciless jaws
35:02tooth resistant steel traces are a no-brainer twinned with my most robust plastic and wooden lures
35:13but drawing these fish out of such turbulent depths is going to be hard and hazardous work
35:20oh yes yes that's a fish
35:27ah
35:29ah
35:30ah
35:31ah
35:33ah
35:34ah
35:35ah
35:36ah
35:37ah
35:38ah
35:39ah
35:40ah
35:41ah
35:43ah
35:45ah
35:46ah
35:47ah
35:48getting a hold in the river tiger's bony jaw is one thing keeping it there is another
36:05ah
36:07ah
36:08ah
36:09ah
36:10ah
36:11ah
36:12ah
36:13ah
36:14I'm finding out why some consider El Dorado the greatest fighting fish in fresh water
36:24that's a fish, that's a good fish
36:27ah
36:28ah
36:29is it off?
36:30yeah it's off
36:31yes
36:32ah
36:33ah
36:34ah
36:35ah
36:36ah
36:37ah
36:38ah
36:39ah
36:42ah
36:43ah
36:44ah
36:45ah
36:46ah
36:47ah
36:48ah
36:49ah
36:50ah
36:51something's changed
36:52in a heartbeat
36:53the fish stop responding to my lure down below
36:57but I spot something moving on the surface
37:02ah
37:07ah
37:08ah
37:09ah
37:10ah
37:11ah
37:12ah
37:13ah
37:14ah
37:15ah
37:16ah
37:17ah
37:18ah
37:20ah
37:22ah
37:23ah
37:25I'm looking for a creature that can inflict a shear-like laceration, an amputation by guillotine, and I think I've found the evidence I need.
37:35I'm just mentally comparing that to a certain part of the human anatomy.
37:42This has actually got a bone down the middle. It's got a vertical column. It's severed through that.
37:48That is pretty gruesome and pretty impressive.
37:52The perpetrator is somewhere right beneath me.
37:55In the shadow of the dam.
38:04I have to strike while the iron's hot.
38:12If it's half the beast I've heard it is, it's still going to be hungry.
38:17Fish on!
38:33I've travelled more than a thousand miles through remote Argentina, tracking down one of the world's greatest freshwater fighters.
38:35I've travelled more than a thousand miles through remote Argentina, tracking down one of the world's greatest freshwater fighters.
38:39I've travelled more than a thousand miles through remote Argentina, tracking down one of the world's greatest freshwater fighters.
38:48Now, I have special permission to fish in its turbulent hunting ground beneath a massive hydroelectric dam.
38:57Despite its sleek and glittering appearance, it's a bloodthirsty river monster, the lightning-fast super lacerator, the Golden Dorado.
39:05Its virtually impenetrable jaws threaten to threaten to throw my hook.
39:14Yes!
39:15Ah!
39:16Yes!
39:17Ah!
39:18Ah!
39:19Ah!
39:20Yes!
39:21Ah!
39:22So, my word is now!
39:23The Redemption of the Golden Dorado, it's virtually impenetrable jaws threaten to throw my hook.
39:28Ahh!
39:29Yes!
39:30All the light投稿!
39:31I'm with the Redemption of the Golden Dorado, it's virtually impenetrable jaws, threatened to throw my hook.
39:38Yes!
39:39All the light投稿!
39:44All the way that I've heard is, what I've heard is, I've heard a tree that I've heard a tree that is.
39:49With a head like a pit bull, this massive beast weighs in at more than 40 pounds.
39:56This is it. This is a serious size fish. Just look at that head and look at the teeth.
40:00And the size of the jaw muscles that are going to be inside that gill flap there.
40:06A bit like bolt cutters really, those jaws, particularly near the angle. Tremendous power.
40:13I've opened the jaws of much bigger fish without a second thought.
40:17But there's no way I'm going to try and manipulate this slippery monster's mouth.
40:23It's actually making me think of a spring-loaded man trap.
40:26It's not so much the size or sharpness of the teeth.
40:30It's the sheer force that you've got operating on these jaws.
40:34And if you're in any doubt, you only have to call to mind the catfish sliced in half.
40:39Any part of human anatomy that gets in those jaws, once you're in it, you're not going to get out.
40:47I've seen the bloody mess it's inflicted on people along the river.
40:52And now I have no doubt that a Dorado had the speed, strength and hardware to slice through Hivasio's manhood.
41:02The ferocious encounters I've uncovered teach a harsh lesson to the people living along Argentina's river of blood.
41:11Down there, the deal is very simple. You either eat or you get eaten.
41:15It's a bloody food chain that mostly happens out of our sight and beyond our awareness.
41:22But get on the wrong end of that food chain and you'll be very aware of the bloody consequences.
41:28And for that reason, we should all fervently hope and take care that we never find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.
41:39Therefore, thank you for telling us.