Paul Rosolie Attempts to Be Devoured By Snake on Camera ... How'd That Go?!

Eaten Alive, Discovery Channel special in which Paul Rosolie allowed a snake to devour him on TV, sure generated a lot of buzz last night … for better or worse.

Spoiler alert, for those who haven’t seen Rosolie giving interviews in the weeks leading up to Sunday’s television event: Rosolie didn’t die in the process.

But just how did his attempt at getting “eaten alive” by an anaconda go?

“The Amazon is the greatest natural battlefield on Earth. Everything, from the biggest tree to the smallest ant, is going to be eaten,” Rosolie said at the onset.

“It’s the most terrifying species in the Amazon,” he notes, unsurprisingly.

“We’re dealing with power that’s very difficult to even imagine, and I’m going to be in search of one individual snake that I know could be the largest snake on the planet.”

The goal?

Find the serpent, entice it to eat him and hope he could either be pulled out once the snake ingested him up to waist level and/or startle the snake into regurgitating him.

The reason he wanted to perform such an unthinkable stunt? To draw attention to ecological crises currently threatening the West Amazon, ostensibly.

His journey, whatever you think of it, took him to a remote part of the Amazon called the Floating Forest, in search of an anaconda that he encountered years ago.

One he believes is the largest on planet Earth.

This would make it bigger than 24 feet, 7 inches, the dimensions of a previous snake he caught there, and the bulk of the special involves his search for it.

The serpent proves elusive, even as Rosolie dives after it, sees it in the murky water, and declares it’s at least 25 feet long. That is not a small animal.

He tries night vision, as they’re active after dark, then later tries to jump on it, with Rosolie grabbing its tail but unable to hold down the giant serpent.

“I felt myself getting ripped off my feet,” he says. “Holding the tail of a snake that felt like it was a team of horses. I came out and I was absolutely shaking.”

He eventually determines that he cannot continue trying to secure the mythical anaconda, so he settles on a smaller anaconda, which he captures.

Rosolie then dons a body suit soaked “head to toe in pig’s blood, so I really smell like dinner to this animal,” and the snake takes the bait, all right.

It coils around him and renders him immobile.

Will he be Eaten Alive!? After it opened its jaws onto his helmet, Rosolie says his arm felt like it was about to break, and he called the whole thing off.

Weak. Show a little backbone, will ya?!

“I started to feel the blood drain out of my hand and I felt the bone flex, and when I got to the point where I felt like it was going to snap I had to tap out,” he recalls.

“I felt her jaws lock onto my helmet. I felt her gurgling and wheezing but then I felt her let go. She got my arm into a position where her force was fully on my exposed arm.”

He adds that if he hadn’t had the suit, “my ribcage would have lasted 10 seconds at best,” and vowed to continue his search for the REALLY big snake.

The one that tried to eat him alive was released, unharmed, back into the wild, where it hopefully found a more manageable meal without a TV crew.

So what did you think of the Discovery special? Are you angry that Paul Rosolie did not actually get Eaten Alive, as advertised? VOTE:

As for the content of this made-for-TV bonanza, do you think it was inhumane, and will it bring any attention to the crises he mentioned? Hit the comments …

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