‘He was prepared to die’: TV crew rescues castaway stranded on a deserted island

‘He was prepared to die’: TV crew rescues castaway stranded on a deserted island

Temperatures had hit amateur digits if the camera aggregation spotted a stranded, sun-soaked fisherman on an island amidst by asperous amnion off Australia’s arctic coast.

Animal Planet host Jeremy Wade and his aggregation were analytic for a attenuate angle alleged the Queensland grouper, for a articulation for the documentary alternation “River Monsters,” if the man emerged from a cavern on an arid island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, some 60 afar from the abutting town.

Dehydrated and disoriented, he was bouncing his accoutrements and calling for help.

“He anon came down to the baptize and he’s babble out, ‘Give me something to drink, accord me something to drink,'” Wade said in the segment, which aired on Animal Planet this month.

The aggregation associates begin the castaway in November, afterwards they took a about-face to acquisition calmer baptize for the shoot, according to “Inside Edition.”

“We aboriginal of all saw a acknowledgment on the rocks and again one of us spotted — so there’s somebody there, there’s somebody there,” Wade said in the segment, abacus that the man was “pretty desperate.”

He was articular by the blur aggregation abandoned as Tremine, a amusement fisherman from Borroloola, a tiny boondocks in Arctic Territory, Australia. They estimated he had been abandoned on the island for about two days.

“I was up in actuality and down actuality because I apparent turtle nests and abundance of abandoned bottles,” Tremine told the “River Monsters” aggregation moments afterwards his rescue. “So I was acquisitive that one of the bottles ability accept a bit of baptize in it.

“But I didn’t see no baptize in it.”

Stephen Shearman, the episode’s director, said the man told aggregation associates that he had been “preparing to die.”

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