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Documentary, River Monsters S06E03 River of Blood
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00:00My name is Jeremy Wade, freshwater detective and angling explorer.
00:07And the place that holds endless mystery for me is the Amazon.
00:13Now I'm heading back on the mission of a lifetime.
00:18Over the course of a whole year, I'll go further and deeper into more remote and unknown.
00:26River monster's territory than ever before.
00:33The waters of the Amazon infiltrate beyond the rainforest into a desolate and dangerous hinterland of rivers and marshes.
00:41Where I've recently heard a report of a brutal underwater mutilation that happened in an instant.
00:50A cruel cut that severed a young man's prospects.
00:56But investigating here isn't going to be easy.
01:00This is a forgotten, often lawless place.
01:03Where some of the waterways hide desperate criminals alongside bloodthirsty predators.
01:09But it's here I have to confront.
01:12The secret slasher that stalks Argentina's river of blood.
01:26A single lifetime is not enough to explore a wilderness the size of the Amazon.
01:43But the predator-filled waters don't halt at the edge of the immense tropical rainforest.
01:50They creep out, tentacle-like, into a cooler realm of sprawling swamps and wetlands.
01:58An area almost four times the size of Texas.
02:02Others may balk at the prospect of hunting down new river monsters out here.
02:10But when I hear stories 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 River.
02:21It's time to open a new case.
02:29The Rio Paraná is the massive freshwater artery coursing through this region.
02:35It flows from the wetlands of Brazil for 3,000 miles until it meets the South Atlantic.
02:41I'm heading into its convoluted maze of waterways to find the source of the story.
02:51Like much of Argentina, this is cattle country.
02:56Despite the risks of flooding, some ranchers still use the marshy islands for grazing.
03:03Señor.
03:05Señor.
03:07Buenos Aires.
03:11I know enough Spanish to ask if he's heard about the mutilation incident.
03:33Not far from here, there's a story of a young lad actually having his penis more or less amplified.
03:42It sounds like the report I heard is true, but he doesn't know what creature was responsible.
03:49He says the most dangerous fish in the water here is the stingray.
03:54I came face to face with this venomous freshwater giant on my only other investigation on this river.
04:02There 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.
04:08I want to ask the victim himself 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.
04:19On my way, I can't resist getting a line in the water to see for myself what's down there.
04:34I've left the equatorial endless summer for a place with distinct variations in temperature,
04:42arriving at the end of this region's surprisingly cold winter.
04:46These 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.
04:59So, it's got to be something else.
05:03I can discount the venomous stingray.
05:06The stabbing spine on its tail is potentially deadly, but it couldn't amputate genitals.
05:13But there is a fish I know that can inflict genital mutilation.
05:18The 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,
05:37where I've never heard of it causing any trouble.
05:43Because I'm after something with a taste for flesh,
05:48I'm going to fish with the bloodiest bait I know.
05:52This being cattle country, this is a bit of cow's heart.
05:58Nice and bloody, very fleshy.
06:01And, 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.
06:36It's a very strong fish on this current.
06:42OK, here we go.
06:43What's that?
06:44The fish that took the cow's heart bait is one I've never caught before, a boger.
06:53Here we go.
06:54This fish, definitely carnivorous.
06:56Looks a bit carp-like.
06:58But this fish has what carp don't have.
07:01Oh, there's teeth in here.
07:03It's only a close look at those teeth.
07:05It's scientific name, Lepurinus, describes its rabbit-like teeth.
07:11But this is not the hardware of a friendly vegetarian.
07:15I've heard bogers can grow bigger than this.
07:17But even so, its mouth is not nearly wide enough to bite my finger.
07:22Although it's quite strange to see teeth in a fish like this,
07:25I don't think this is responsible.
07:27In fact, I'm certain of it.
07:28Explorers named this land Argentine after the silver they hoped to find here.
07:38Once 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.
07:59The red flags are the sign of a renegade saint who locals revere.
08:09This is a shrine to Garcito Hill in this region of Argentina.
08:14He was something of a Robin Hood figure, helped the poor people.
08:18You have to leave offerings, cigarettes, wine.
08:21But Garcito Hill himself worshipped another saint of darker, more ancient origins.
08:27There's also another smaller figure in there.
08:29And this is something that translates to the saint of death.
08:34It's said that San La Muerte can protect his followers from going to prison,
08:39which is why many hardened criminals,
08:41and even murderers in this corner of Argentina,
08:44also make offerings to him.
08:48A woman in this village says the victim's family have moved to the big city,
08:56but his uncle is still here.
08:59He watches my approach suspiciously,
09:02perhaps because I'm not from around here,
09:05and people asking questions can often be connected to the police.
09:09But in the end, he agrees to tell me about the horrific event
09:22that changed his nephew's life forever.
09:25In an isolated backwater of Argentina,
09:43I'm investigating horrific reports
09:45of a creature that brutally severs human extremities.
09:49A man named Tilijo agrees to tell me exactly what happened to his nephew,
09:57Hevasio, on a day that neither of them would ever forget.
10:01When he passed the case, he came from the school.
10:08He 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.
10:49Something had severed through his penis
10:55and had removed part of a testicle.
10:59It was a rapid strike,
11:01which 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 bite,
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
11:20is where people go swimming, where animals go,
11:22so the water was cloudy,
11:23so nobody actually saw what it was that did this.
11:27Hevasio survived the attack,
11:29but when I ask where I can find him,
11:32his uncle tells me that he's since died,
11:34but from an unrelated illness.
11:36This 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.
11:59Talijo said villagers regularly use the stretch of water
12:03where it happened.
12:06It sounds like the place where Hevasio went bathing
12:10was also the place where everybody cleaned the fish.
12:13Gutting this fish here, what's happened?
12:15Immediately, loads 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.
12:32If you have a place where people do this every day,
12:34the fish learn that that is a place for easy pickings.
12:38And what they're doing is they're rushing in
12:40and they're trying to grab morsels in the water.
12:44And unfortunately for Hevasio,
12:46a large fish mistook his extremities for food,
12:49with disastrous consequences.
12:51If a large and aggressive predator
12:55has become fearless of humans,
12:57then there should be evidence of more attacks along the river.
13:02But 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
13:32seems innocent enough.
13:42But has he heard about any attacks on the river?
13:45Now, 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?
14:19He said, no, no, there was another case near here.
14:22Some people were swimming in the river.
14:23A child had something bite their leg.
14:27And when they actually pulled the child out,
14:29the 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.
14:44I'm hoping the effects of the poison have dissipated
14:47because I've got work to do.
14:50I don't yet know whether I'm after a sight or scent hunter.
15:02A piece of smelly fish that's visually reminiscent of the body part
15:05might appeal to both.
15:20There are more than 60 species in the piranha family,
15:47and many change shape and colour as they grow.
15:50So they can be notoriously difficult to identify.
15:54But locally, this is called a palometta.
15:56It's a piranha that's adapted to life in colder water.
16:00It's going to be interesting to unhook
16:02because normally with a piranha, you grab the body.
16:06The body of this is so large,
16:07it's going to be quite hard for me to hold it with one hand.
16:15A very impressive animal.
16:16These teeth are surgically sharp,
16:21and I think this could be the top suspect
16:23for what's severed the diver's toes.
16:28But I don't think the jaws are big enough
16:30for the single cut across Havasio's genitals.
16:33Sometimes attacks leave a signature,
16:39a wound that I can read.
16:41Tooth marks can be the biggest clue
16:43to the perpetrator's identity.
16:45I need to track down more victims.
16:48And further along the river,
16:52I find a village cursed by attacks
16:55from creatures terrorising Argentina's river of blood.
17:00Just months after my investigation,
17:07residents of a town on the Rio Paraná
17:09had an unexpectedly bloody Christmas.
17:12Find out why after this.
17:15Just months after my visit,
17:1760 residents of the town of Rosario
17:19were bitten on their hands and feet
17:21in the Rio Paraná on Christmas Day,
17:23attacked by palomettas,
17:25probably protecting their nests.
17:26I'm in the heart of a sprawling system
17:34of rivers and wetlands
17:35that spread south from the Amazon Basin.
17:39Hunting down a river monster
17:41that's been slicing into people
17:43along these remote shores.
17:47I find more victims in a riverside village.
17:50This time not people swimming in the river,
17:53but fishing.
17:54I'm told a boy lost his finger to a palometta,
17:58but something much larger
18:01attacked his stepfather.
18:05The man was fishing with a hand line
18:07and got a strong take.
18:12But when he brought the fish into the boat,
18:15it slipped off the hook
18:16and bit deep into his ankle.
18:17He was terrified,
18:23not because it might bite him again,
18:24but because the thrashing, snapping bees
18:26might attack his toddler daughter,
18:30who was in the boat with him.
18:39Further into the village,
18:41I find the brutalized family.
18:43The little boy saw that it was a palometta
18:48that took off his finger.
18:50And luckily for me,
18:51his stepfather also recognized
18:53the creature that bit him.
18:57Piraju is not a name I've come across before.
19:01He tells me it's much bigger than the palometta.
19:04And he's not the only man
19:06who's been attacked by one in this village.
19:20Claudio Torres had a strong Piraju on the line
19:23earlier this year.
19:24When it leapt out of the water,
19:27still on the hook,
19:29it sunk its teeth
19:30into his knee.
19:32There are no proper medical facilities out here,
19:34and the wound was so deep
19:36it took a month to heal.
19:40When I track him down,
19:41Claudio Torres has a grisly souvenir.
19:45This is the lower jaw of this fish.
19:48Jagged teeth.
19:51There's actually two rows.
19:52There's another slightly smaller row inside.
19:55I've never seen teeth quite like this.
19:58The nearest thing is a snakehead,
20:00but I've never heard of them turning up here.
20:02I can clearly see where the upper and lower jaws latched on.
20:11It indicates the potential size of the beast.
20:14Could a Piraju be responsible
20:15for Hevasio's horrific genital mutilation?
20:19The fishermen also use another name
20:21for the creature attacking them.
20:23This is the Tigre del Rio.
20:25He says that some people also call this fish
20:28the river tiger,
20:29not only because it's a very effective predator,
20:33but also the coloration.
20:34He says it's a yellow coloration,
20:36but with black stripes.
20:39River tiger seems highly appropriate
20:41for this fearless fish
20:43that's tearing into people up and down this river.
20:47I'm told, however,
20:48that in the colder months of the year,
20:50this tiger doesn't stalk near the shore,
20:52but in the deep water of the main river channel.
20:59I've seen the dental hardware
21:01of some of the fish in this river already,
21:03so I'm going to use robust artificial lures.
21:08There's a huge amount of water to cover.
21:11The name Parana means like the sea.
21:16So I'm going to fish from a moving boat.
21:22Trolling the lure about 100 yards behind
21:25on low-diameter braided line
21:27to cut through the water
21:29and get the lure down deep.
21:34There's a nice rhythmic vibration coming up the line.
21:37The rod tip's wobbling away there.
21:39That tells me that the lure is actually working nicely.
21:42It's wiggling away.
21:42It's running, it's running.
21:58Something very strong has struck
22:01and the battle commences.
22:03Taking line.
22:04Taking line.
22:05The fish is taking line.
22:06You're hooking the fish at a long distance
22:08and this fish has also run,
22:10so I've got line to make up.
22:13It's actually quite tiring work.
22:17Oh, it's going to take a line,
22:18take a line, take a line, take a line, take a line down.
22:20Yeah, this is a big fish.
22:22This is a big fish.
22:23Whatever's taken the lure
22:24definitely outsizes both Boga and Palometta.
22:28Just hoping everything holds.
22:31In theory, this is very tiring for a fish
22:33to have pressure from directly above,
22:36but this fish is absolutely resisting.
22:41In fact, more than resisting,
22:43it's actually taking line.
22:44This could be my only chance
22:45to come face to face with the river tiger,
22:48but it's so strong,
22:50I'm worried I might lose it.
22:52I'm on the hunt for the river tiger,
23:04a fish that's brutally slashing the inhabitants
23:07along a remote Argentinian river.
23:10But the fish I've hooked is such a strong fighter,
23:13I'm worried that I might not get to see it.
23:17OK, my back is starting to ache.
23:20My back's starting to ache.
23:22Oh, I've got a slight shake
23:25of the face of the trembles here.
23:27My arm.
23:30This fish isn't yet tired.
23:34What can be said for me?
23:35It's been fighting me for half an hour
23:38and it's showing little sign of tiring.
23:42It's taking lines slowly.
23:44Let it run, run, run, run, run, run.
23:45Every time you run like that,
23:46you're tiring yourself out.
23:48Then something shifts.
23:50The fish seems to be getting a little bit more agitated,
23:54which is not so much a sign of increasing strength,
23:57it's getting near to the boat.
23:59Coming up in the water, coming up.
24:00Subindo, subindo.
24:01There's bubbles coming up, there's bubbles coming up.
24:03This is a surubi, a powerful, predatory catfish.
24:13This is the biggest one I've ever caught,
24:17so I want to take a really close look
24:19at this 80-pound monster.
24:21This streamlined predator massively outsizes the palometta.
24:29It's got hundreds of tiny teeth
24:31that function like gripper pads
24:33to seize and hold fast onto prey fish,
24:36but they're not going to do any serious damage to human flesh.
24:39I've got no qualms at all about putting my hand in there.
24:43No way am I going to lose a finger.
24:45No way is that going to take a lump of flesh out of me.
24:47So, as impressive as this fish is,
24:50it's not the one that I'm looking for.
24:54My epic battle in this gargantuan river
24:57has brought up a real monster,
24:59but not the river tiger.
25:01With the cold weather working against me,
25:07I really need some local intelligence
25:09to home in on the lair of the river tiger.
25:16What is that?
25:18One man tells me the river tiger is so aggressive and fast
25:22that it seems to appear from nowhere.
25:24If it smells any blood in the water,
25:32anything like that,
25:33it will come, it will attack.
25:36The people are powerless to protect themselves,
25:39so it's no wonder some put their faith in the cowboy saint.
25:46The real man behind the myth
25:48was a gaucho or cowboy
25:50who was hanged for his attempts
25:52to help the poor of this region,
25:53a story that resonates to this day.
25:57For the young man, Jefacio,
25:59growing up in the macho gaucho culture,
26:01where people learn to ride
26:03almost before they can walk,
26:05losing his manhood to a river monster
26:07must have been a very cruel blow indeed.
26:13When I ask Tomás Torres
26:14where I can find the river tiger,
26:17he tells me the water is too cold
26:18for me to hunt them here
26:20at this time of year.
26:21For any chance to come face to face with one now,
26:26I must go to the great wetlands
26:27that are connected to the river,
26:29where the shallower waters are sometimes warmer.
26:36Roads can't penetrate these desolate,
26:38virtually uninhabited marshes.
26:41Few venture in,
26:43other than the gauchos who graze cattle
26:46or around the shifting fringes.
26:48Jeremy, is that you?
26:58I can easily enter this road or a little bit...
27:03No, no.
27:04And they're armed with a false wall,
27:06and they move.
27:07He says it's quite treacherous. A lot of what appears to be land isn't land at all.
27:12There's water underneath. You step on it, you go through.
27:16He also says that the floating reeds constantly shift in the wind, redrawing the channels.
27:23They say a murderer has been on the run for two years out here.
27:28But the police can't track him down.
27:31Is the river tiger out here too?
27:33It is, but it's not easy to catch.
27:40I just got this hook out. Is that the kind of thing I need?
27:43Yeah, you need that. It's a fish that has a lot of force.
27:47When it attacks a lot of force in its bite, in its jaw, something smaller than that is just going to get destroyed.
27:53In exchange for some valuable hooks, the gauchos agree to take me to one of the few boatmen
27:59who know the way around these uncharted waters.
28:03But that means joining their cattle drive through a near freezing river.
28:11Ah!
28:12Ah!
28:13Ah!
28:14Ah!
28:15Ah!
28:16Ah!
28:16Ah!
28:17Ah!
28:18Ah!
28:18Ah!
28:19Ah!
28:20Ah!
28:21Ah!
28:22Ah!
28:23Ah!
28:24Ah!
28:25Ah!
28:26Ah!
28:27Ah!
28:28Ah!
28:29Ah!
28:30Ah!
28:31Ah!
28:32Ah!
28:33Ah!
28:33Ah!
28:34Ah!
28:35Ah!
28:36Ah!
28:47Early the next morning, the boatman, Tulio, agrees to take me out into the remote caiman-infested channels.
28:54Ah!
29:02This vast wetland, almost twice the size of the Everglades, is known as the Esteros de Iberá.
29:09I've travelled 500 miles on the hunt for the river tiger,
29:18and the waters I find here are not what I expected.
29:21The indigenous Indian name Ibera means bright water.
29:26It's amazingly clear, but unfortunately what that means is that anything living there
29:30is going to see me before I see it.
29:32Tullio tells me the only way to outsmart the river tiger here is to fly fish,
29:41casting a fish-like streamer lure from a distance on a virtually invisible leader.
29:48I'm giving it life by stripping the line in with my hand so it shoots forward in little darts.
29:55So it's mimicking a small fish, and anything that is carnivorous down there might be tempted by that.
30:02I just hope these waters in the forsaken heart of the marshes are warm enough for the river tiger to be hunting.
30:21Yeah!
30:26Is this the right colour for what I'm after?
30:28All I have to do now is get a close look at its teeth.
30:32I'm in the middle of a caiman-infested swamp in a forgotten corner of Argentina,
30:49hunting down an aggressive fish that I've never encountered before,
30:55the fearless and bloodthirsty river tiger.
30:58I recognise the fish on my line as one of South America's greatest freshwater fighters.
31:08The right colour for what I'm after.
31:09One that's notoriously difficult to keep on the hook.
31:12OK.
31:27OK.
31:28Yeah.
31:29Well, I can see stripes.
31:31I can see stripes.
31:32My guide, Tullio, confirms this is the river tiger, also known here as the piraju.
31:42But I know this fish as the golden dorado, a creature I've only seen a couple of times before.
31:48It's just like a living bar of gold.
31:51So gold, they named it twice.
31:54Dorado is also the Spanish word for golden, as in the fabled city of El Dorado.
31:59This muscle-packed beast is a vigorous fighter and isn't taken easily.
32:05Its stamina on the line is legendary.
32:08And beneath its glittering gill plates, the hefty jaw muscles that are the source of its phenomenal biting power.
32:16Right.
32:17I don't want to get too close, but that definitely has teeth there.
32:19And I'm thinking particularly if you get near the angle of that jaw, it's going to be a bit like a bolt cutter.
32:25The saw-like rows of teeth are partially concealed by flesh.
32:30But when pressure's applied, they sink in deep.
32:34I've heard Dorado can grow to around 70 pounds.
32:38I can scarcely imagine the damage a big one might inflict.
32:42But if I'm to prove a Dorado was responsible for Hevasio's genital mutilation, I have to find out.
32:49I think what I really need is to catch a bigger one of these.
32:56But that's not going to happen here.
32:59Away from the hot heart of the Amazon, I'm hostage to the seasons.
33:03In the winter, there's only one place to find very large Dorados, the Rio Uruguay.
33:15This other great river is connected to the Paraná, and Dorados patrol both.
33:22But in the winter, the only place the biggest fish are still active is on the Uruguay.
33:29Below a dam that stops their prey from moving upstream.
33:34Here, there's enough food for them to hunt in deep water, whatever the temperature.
33:40This dam is home to giants.
33:50This enormous structure is Salta Grande Dam.
33:54It's a 10,000 foot long wall of concrete and steel linking Argentina and Uruguay.
34:00And behind it is a 300 square mile lake, untold billions of cubic feet of water.
34:06And what they do is they release that water through the turbines, generating electricity.
34:11And it's in the crazy turbulence beneath the turbines that the super predator thrives.
34:18Dams are the perfect haunt for big fish.
34:22The turbulent outflows replicate rapids and waterfalls,
34:26where large predators can conceal themselves and thrive as the water pummels smaller fish.
34:32And it's in these dangerously convulsing waters that I have to go.
34:38But this high security installation is tightly controlled,
34:42so I've had to negotiate special access.
34:45But that's by no means my biggest challenge here.
34:48I'll have to deploy some of my toughest tackle
34:58to withstand the onslaught of the Dorado's merciless jaws.
35:06Tooth-resistant steel traces are a no-brainer,
35:10twinned with my most robust plastic and wooden lures.
35:13But drawing these fish out of such turbulent depths
35:18is going to be hard and hazardous work.
35:21Oh, yes, yes, that's a fish.
35:46So, that's a bit perfect.
35:59Getting a hold in the river tiger's bony jaw is one thing.
36:03Keeping it there is another.
36:06Ah!
36:09Right.
36:11Fish go away.
36:12I'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
36:34Yes
36:42That's all that's all
36:50Something's changed in a heartbeat the fish stop responding to my lure down below
37:00But I spot something moving on the surface
37:03It's a catfish or well, it's half a catfish
37:15They are still alive
37:17It's just been it's been severed and you can see something chopped there something chopped there
37:23I'm looking for a creature that can inflict a shear like laceration and amputation by guillotine
37:32And I think I've found the evidence I need
37:35I'm just I'm just
37:37Mentally comparing that to a certain part of the human anatomy
37:41This is actually got a bone down the middle. It's got a it's got a vertical column. It's severed through that
37:48That is pretty gruesome and pretty impressive
37:51The perpetrator is somewhere right beneath me
37:58In the shadow of the dam
38:04I have to strike while the irons hot
38:12If it's half the beast I've heard it is it's still going to be hungry
38:21Fish on
38:32Fish on
38:44Yes
38:51I've traveled more than 1,000 miles through remote Argentina,
38:59tracking down one of the world's greatest freshwater fighters.
39:03Now, I have special permission to fish in its turbulent hunting ground
39:07beneath a massive hydroelectric dam.
39:11Despite its sleek and glittering appearance,
39:14it's a bloodthirsty river monster.
39:17The lightning-fast superlacerator.
39:19The Golden Dorado.
39:24Its virtually impenetrable jaws threaten to throw my hook.
39:30Yes!
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-sized fish.
39:58Just 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.
40:10Tremendous 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.
40:22It'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.
40:43Once 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
40:58to slice through Hivasio's manhood.
41:02The ferocious encounters I've uncovered teach a harsh lesson
41:07to the people living along Argentina's river of blood.
41:11Down there, the deal is very simple.
41:14You 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
41:25and you'll be very aware of the bloody consequences.
41:28And for that reason...
41:30We should all fervently hope and take care
41:32that we never find ourselves in the wrong place.
41:37At the wrong time.
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