River Monsters team rescued a stranded fisherman.
Temperatures had hit triple digits when the camera crew spotted a stranded, sun-soaked fisherman on an island surrounded by rough waters off Australia's northern coast.
Animal Planet host Jeremy Wade and his crew were searching for a rare fish called the Queensland grouper, for a segment for the documentary series "River Monsters," when the man emerged from a cave on an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, some 60 miles from the nearest town.
Dehydrated and disoriented, he was waving his arms and calling for help.
"He immediately came down to the water, and he's yelling out, 'Give me something to drink, give me something to drink,'" Wade said in the segment, which aired on Animal Planet this month.
The crew members found the castaway in November, after they took a turn to find calmer water for the shoot, according to "Inside Edition."
"We first of all saw a cooler on the rocks and then one of us spotted - so there's somebody there, there's somebody there," Wade said in the segment, adding that the man was "pretty desperate."
He was identified by the film crew only as Tremine, a hobby fisherman from Borroloola, a tiny town in Australia's Northern Territory. They estimated he had been alone on the island for about two days.
"I was up in here and down here because I seen turtle nests and heaps of empty bottles," Tremine told the "River Monsters" crew moments after his rescue. "So I was hoping that one of the bottles might have a bit of water in it.
"But I didn't see no water in it."
Stephen Shearman, the episode's director, said the man told crew members that he had been "preparing to die."
"He had said his last prayer," Shearman told "Inside Edition."
"He was prepared to die and meet his maker."
Tremine said he had been fishing and decided to leave his boat to dig for oysters, Shearman told "Inside Edition."
But he never found his way back.
"He had tried to walk back, got beaten by the sun, and made his way back to the beach," Shearman told the show. "Meanwhile, he had suffered from sunstroke and was unable to go any further. He then spent that first night on the beach, and the next morning he tried again, but the sun had gotten to be too much for him, and at this point, he is now trapped.
"This guy is super experienced, goes out fishing a lot, he knows the landscape, he knows the dangers, and yet he succumbed to it so quickly."
In the "River Monsters" segment, Tremine was seen sipping water on the film crew's boat.
The director told "Inside Edition" that the crew tried to help him hydrate but he threw up.
"His body wasn't ready for that at all," Shearman said. "His condition was quite serious."
Shearman said the crew members took Tremine took to their lodge, and the next day he went home.
"His strength gained straight back," he told "Inside Edition." "His recovery was quick."
The Northern Territory police could not immediately be reached for comment.
"River Monsters" airs on Animal Planet at 10 p.m. EDT on Thursdays.
© 2016 The Washington Post
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Animal Planet host Jeremy Wade and his crew were searching for a rare fish called the Queensland grouper, for a segment for the documentary series "River Monsters," when the man emerged from a cave on an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, some 60 miles from the nearest town.
Dehydrated and disoriented, he was waving his arms and calling for help.
"He immediately came down to the water, and he's yelling out, 'Give me something to drink, give me something to drink,'" Wade said in the segment, which aired on Animal Planet this month.
The crew members found the castaway in November, after they took a turn to find calmer water for the shoot, according to "Inside Edition."
"We first of all saw a cooler on the rocks and then one of us spotted - so there's somebody there, there's somebody there," Wade said in the segment, adding that the man was "pretty desperate."
He was identified by the film crew only as Tremine, a hobby fisherman from Borroloola, a tiny town in Australia's Northern Territory. They estimated he had been alone on the island for about two days.
"I was up in here and down here because I seen turtle nests and heaps of empty bottles," Tremine told the "River Monsters" crew moments after his rescue. "So I was hoping that one of the bottles might have a bit of water in it.
"But I didn't see no water in it."
Stephen Shearman, the episode's director, said the man told crew members that he had been "preparing to die."
"He had said his last prayer," Shearman told "Inside Edition."
"He was prepared to die and meet his maker."
Tremine said he had been fishing and decided to leave his boat to dig for oysters, Shearman told "Inside Edition."
But he never found his way back.
"He had tried to walk back, got beaten by the sun, and made his way back to the beach," Shearman told the show. "Meanwhile, he had suffered from sunstroke and was unable to go any further. He then spent that first night on the beach, and the next morning he tried again, but the sun had gotten to be too much for him, and at this point, he is now trapped.
"This guy is super experienced, goes out fishing a lot, he knows the landscape, he knows the dangers, and yet he succumbed to it so quickly."
In the "River Monsters" segment, Tremine was seen sipping water on the film crew's boat.
The director told "Inside Edition" that the crew tried to help him hydrate but he threw up.
"His body wasn't ready for that at all," Shearman said. "His condition was quite serious."
Shearman said the crew members took Tremine took to their lodge, and the next day he went home.
"His strength gained straight back," he told "Inside Edition." "His recovery was quick."
The Northern Territory police could not immediately be reached for comment.
"River Monsters" airs on Animal Planet at 10 p.m. EDT on Thursdays.
© 2016 The Washington Post
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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