Last of the Giants (2022-…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Worst Case Scenario - full transcript
The crew faces-off with a back-breaking, 200-pound giant in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean, as they seek to help save the white sturgeon's favourite food; the mighty Pacific salmon. Their mission takes them far out to sea, and deeper into the rugged mountains than they've ever been before. To find these elusive warrior fish, they must brave massive waves, raft down treacherous, frigid rapids, and evade hunting grizzly bears.
CYRIL: Uh, it doesn't move
like a piranha, it's weird.
What is this?
It's coming up,
it's coming up.
We're just about to
see what this fish is.
There it is. There it is.
Oh, it's an electric eel.
Electric eel.
Get out of the water, guys,
get out of the water.
GEOFF: Out.
Everybody out. Everybody out.
CYRIL: Everybody
out of the water.
Ah!
GEOFF: Cyril!
NARRATOR: Cyril Chauquet spends
his life traveling the world...
CYRIL: Easy, big guy.
NARRATOR: In
search of massive fish.
CYRIL: Ah! Look at
the size of that thing.
NARRATOR: No matter the danger.
CYRIL: Look at the
amount of venom on that bark.
Careful.
NARRATOR: He'll do
whatever it takes to
see these giants up close.
CYRIL (over radio): He
could almost swallow me whole.
NARRATOR: But many of these
animals are also in danger.
CYRIL: They're facing a
lot of challenges as fish.
NARRATOR: From
habitat destruction, pollution,
and commercial overfishing.
Now, Cyril and his team
of adventure filmmakers
are on a grueling
mission across the globe.
CYRIL: Look out!
GEOFF: Unbelievable.
CYRIL: Whoa!
Oh, yeah!
NARRATOR: To help
scientists study these
fantastic creatures
and protect them.
CYRIL: We have the choice,
whether we preserve those fish
or we let them go extinct.
NARRATOR: Together,
they'll fight to save
the last of the giants.
NARRATOR: Previously...
CYRIL: Here we go.
NARRATOR: The team traveled deep
into the Amazon jungle in Brazil
on a mission to
collect DNA samples from
the two largest freshwater
giants in South America.
After surviving
a flash flood...
GEOFF: Man, the samples!
Get them, get them, get them.
JESSE: Ah!
NARRATOR: And bullet ants.
CYRIL: Jesse just
got stung by this.
JESSE: Oh,
it's coming, the pain!
Ah!
NARRATOR: They managed to
sample a massive pirarucu.
CYRIL: This fish
is over seven feet.
Did you see the
size of this fish?
Man.
NARRATOR: They then traveled
far upriver with locals
Eder and João to
find the Goliath catfish,
known locally as the piraiba.
Cyril finally
got one on the line.
CYRIL: He's pulling the boat.
NARRATOR: But before
they could sample it...
CYRIL: I see some
big rapids there.
NARRATOR: It pulled
them into the current.
GEOFF: No, just
give me last shot, okay?
EDER: Hurry! We
are in the big rapids!
Hurry!
CYRIL: We're going
to hit some rocks here.
EDER: The motor won't start!
MANU: Guys, the
rapids are like right here.
NARRATOR: Just as
they're about to get
their first sample
from a piraiba.
CYRIL: This fish is going
to get beat up in the rapids.
Hey, Jesse, pass
me the pliers there.
NARRATOR: The
situation gets dangerous.
CYRIL: I gotta
let it go, this fish.
GEOFF: Just give me one
last shot, okay, one more.
CYRIL: It's going to die.
EDER: Faster Cyril! We're about
to start going down the rapids!
It's very dangerous here!
We're putting our lives at risk!
CYRIL: Okay.
NARRATOR: They have no
choice but to let the giant go
in order to save it.
CYRIL: He's gone.
NARRATOR: And save themselves.
CYRIL: Go! Go!
Start the motor!
Start the motor!
CYRIL: The motor won't start.
Big, big rocks
coming up, guys, big rocks.
CYRIL: Brace for impact!
NARRATOR: Without an engine,
the team is at the mercy of
the current and could
capsize at any moment.
CYRIL: Hold on guys, hold on.
Okay, we're good.
EDER: Cyril! I got it started!
CYRIL: We are good now.
EDER: We're good!
CYRIL: We're good guys.
Now we're safe.
Damn, we had it, man.
GEOFF: Yeah.
NARRATOR: They didn't get
their sample, but the guys are
thankful that they
and the fish escaped
a dangerous situation.
GEOFF: We almost had it.
CYRIL: We had it, I was
holding it and you were like,
you were about to
get the fin clipped.
GEOFF: I didn't
want to cut his fin off.
I just wanted to
get a little clip.
CYRIL: Yeah,
I know, I know, I know.
I know. I know.
NARRATOR: This
deep in the rainforest,
one of the biggest obstacles
in their mission is turning out
to be the Amazon itself.
GEOFF: But man, if it gets
any more intense than this,
I think I'm going to
have a heart attack.
Hey, you got a cut
on your hand, man.
CYRIL: I know.
Yeah, that's the line.
I'm just gonna pull it off.
You want a sample?
GEOFF: Yeah.
CYRIL: Grab your sample, man.
GEOFF: There you go.
We'll send that to Lorenzo.
Hey, piranhas, a
little bit of Cyril.
NARRATOR: They
missed their first
chance at sampling a piraiba,
but at least it
was confirmation that these
massive fish can still
be found in these waters.
Very little is
known about these fish.
And the crew is in this remote
area of the Amazon rainforest
in Brazil to collect
DNA samples from these
threatened giants for Brazilian
biologist Lorenzo Barroco.
LORENZO: The piraiba
is an enormous fish.
It's really
important for the ecosystem.
NARRATOR: Just like the
prehistoric pirarucu that
the team already
succeeded in sampling,
the piraiba sits
at the top of the most
massive list of freshwater fish
in South America.
But unlike the pirarucu,
this giant likes to travel far.
To spawn, the piraiba makes
the longest migration of any
freshwater fish
on planet Earth.
And the team's study will
demonstrate the links between
the piraiba populations
across the entire course
of their migration.
Because these giants need to
move so much, if they aren't
protected throughout
their whole migration,
they could be in
serious trouble.
CYRIL: So, if a dam is
built in the middle of
the river, it's all over.
LORENZO: Yes Cyril,
it can be catastrophic.
NARRATOR: The team's mission
is critical to discovering the
piraiba's full range, and
Cyril is feeling the pressure.
He's already lost one and
finding more out here is going
to be tough.
CYRIL: Whoa, let's
see what we've got here.
I don't remember
this fort from the map.
CYRIL: Do you
know this location?
EDER: No!
CYRIL: No?
NARRATOR: There are dozens
of tributaries, and choosing
the right area to fish in this
maze is frustratingly difficult.
CYRIL: I guess, let's
stick to the main channel.
NARRATOR: The piraiba
could be anywhere here.
So Cyril needs to
choose his spots, well.
CYRIL: We are in
a deep pool here.
EDER: Yes, it's deep here.
CYRIL: Had a good
feeling about this spot,
see a lot of swirls like this.
Right here, there's a back
eddy here, the water seems to
be going back up there so the
food should be staying here.
NARRATOR: They pull
the boat up to the shore
and the waiting game begins.
CYRIL: Oh. Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Something's biting.
Here we go.
(grunting).
Oh, yeah.
NARRATOR: Whatever
it is, it's strong.
And once again, the
boat is pulled into
the middle of the river.
CYRIL: I don't
think it's a cat, but
it's a strong fighter,
whatever it is.
Oh, man.
It's a nice-size fish.
Nice.
On.
EDER: Traira, traira.
CYRIL: It's a wolffish.
NARRATOR: This may not be the
piraiba the team is looking for,
but it is one of the Amazon's
legendary predator fish.
CYRIL: I gotta be
really careful here.
Oh.
See?
Biting on pliers right now.
Yes.
Look at the
size of this traira.
That's the name it's got
here in Portuguese in Brazil.
It's mainly a
nocturnal feeder.
That's why in English it's
commonly called a wolffish,
feeds mainly at night but
obviously it feeds during
the day too 'cause
they're opportunistic feeders.
You know, if they see
anything that passes by the face
that they like, they'll take it.
Beautiful animal.
We can't really tell it's
a predator until you look
carefully in their mouths.
Same thing on
the lower jaw here.
Look.
This fish makes the
piranha look like a poodle.
All right, let's get
this guy back in water.
CYRIL: Very good!
CYRIL: Okay, guys, let's
keep looking for piraiba.
NARRATOR: This is
a promising spot,
so Cyril keeps casting,
and the crew keeps waiting.
GEOFF: Oh, it's
starting to rain.
NARRATOR: But after an hour...
CYRIL: Ah,
nothing's taking the bait.
Let's get out of here.
NARRATOR: They decide
to keep moving upriver.
CYRIL: You guys
enjoying your trip?
CHRIS: Oddly,
it's raining more.
NARRATOR: The weather in
the Amazon is unpredictable.
CYRIL: Looks like we
got a little situation here.
NARRATOR: And
so are the rivers.
CYRIL: We can't go up here.
EDER: It's very strong.
NARRATOR: To increase their
chances of finding piraiba,
they need to keep moving upriver
farther from human activity.
CYRIL: I think we're
gonna have to push the
boats through the rapids.
NARRATOR: But with this current,
that's not going to be easy.
CYRIL: It's not that deep.
NARRATOR: The plan is
simple: get out of the
boat and start pushing.
JESSE: Good?
CHRIS: All right, you good?
JESSE: Yeah.
CYRIL: The one thing that's key
is that you never
let go of the boat.
CYRIL: Because you
might fall into a big hole.
You don't want to
go underneath the boat
or get sucked under.
Okay, let's go.
NARRATOR: They need to
move carefully because
the river bottom is made up
of jagged and slippery rocks.
One false move
could mean disaster.
This portage will be punishing.
CYRIL: Oh!
GEOFF: Oh, right there.
Big hole right here, yeah.
NARRATOR: The force of
the rapids, combined with
the weight of the boat equals
hundreds of pounds of drag,
which is wearing down the team.
And in this situation,
fatigue means danger.
CHRIS: Geoff, Geoff!
NARRATOR: Geoff goes down hard,
but reacts quickly
and holds on to the boat.
CYRIL: You all right?
GEOFF: Yeah, I
really hit my knee hard.
CYRIL: You can get in
the boat if you want.
We can pull you.
GEOFF: No, no,
I'm good, thanks.
NARRATOR: The
current is relentless and
the guys are getting tired.
JESSE: Whoa!
MANU: Oh, Jesse, Jesse,
give me your hand.
CYRIL: Careful over there, guys.
(speaking native language).
NARRATOR: They need
to make one last push
to the top before
someone gets badly hurt.
But just as the first boat
makes it into the clear,
boat number two
gets stuck on a rock.
MANU: I can't move it!
NARRATOR: Without some help,
it's not going to budge.
So Cyril heads back.
MANU: One, two, three!
Left, left, yeah!
(laughing).
CYRIL: Good job, buddy.
Good job.
Oh.
Good job, man.
JESSE: That was awesome.
NARRATOR: But
they didn't make it up
without a few battle scars.
CYRIL: Right there.
GEOFF: Ouch. Man.
GEOFF: All I can say
is that there better
be some fish out there.
CYRIL: A little time of
relaxation for the team before
we go back into some craziness.
(laughing).
NARRATOR: With the
rapids behind them, they push
deeper into the Amazon jungle
with the hope that somewhere
up ahead, they'll find
a section of river that could
hold a giant piraiba.
But navigating
this wild territory...
CYRIL: Careful guys.
NARRATOR: Isn't easy.
CYRIL: Oh, well, looks
like we're going to have
to push the boats again.
GEOFF: Surprise, surprise.
CYRIL: Hey, watch
your footing, guys.
MANU: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The team
moves slowly and keeps
a constant
lookout for any dangers.
CYRIL: Wait, wait!
CYRIL: Stop, stop, stop, stop.
CYRIL: There's a
stingray right there.
CYRIL: Look, look, look.
Right there, right there.
NARRATOR: The freshwater
stingray or river stingray,
is feared by locals
because of its ruthless sting.
CYRIL: If you step on, it'll
feel threatened right away
and whip its tail, and
nail you with the barb.
NARRATOR: Its tail
can whip up in an instant
and stab you with
its venomous barb,
causing unbearable pain,
which is why locals have
nicknamed these stingrays
the wish-you-were-dead fish.
EDER: It's good to eat.
CYRIL: It's good to eat?
EDER: Yes.
NARRATOR: But as
for Eder and João, they
want to eat it for supper.
CYRIL: Be careful
Eder, be careful.
NARRATOR: Using an
improvised harpoon,
Eder carefully approaches
the stingray from behind.
He gets it.
The guys need to
keep a safe distance
from the
stingray's venomous barb.
CYRIL: Watch the tail, guys.
Watch the tail.
JESSE: That's a big one too!
CYRIL: That barb, that's what
you want to stay away from.
CYRIL: It's good to eat?
EDER: Yes, it's good to eat.
Delicious.
NARRATOR: It stops raining.
CYRIL: Man, what did we
get ourselves into here?
NARRATOR: And the
team is still searching
for a way out of the jungle.
CYRIL: Not out
of the woods yet.
We're stuck on a log.
Hold on, I know what to do.
Okay, guys, what
we're going to do is
we're going to push this
boat as soon as we feel that
the weight is transferring
to the, to the bow.
You come to the bow.
GEOFF: Okay.
CYRIL: Go, front, front.
(groans).
There we go.
GEOFF: Nice.
And check it out,
it opens up up there.
NARRATOR: The crew finally
escapes the jungle unscathed.
CYRIL: Ouch, ow.
NARRATOR: Almost.
CYRIL: Hit me right in the face.
Did you like my shortcut?
NARRATOR: With
nightfall fast approaching,
Cyril and his team need to
set up camp quickly before
the nocturnal predators
come out to hunt.
CYRIL: We're gonna eat
some Amazon stingray tonight.
They say it's pretty good,
I guess we'll find out.
All right, some wood here.
NARRATOR: The crew will
sleep in hammocks to keep
off the ground, but
this deep in the Amazon,
there are dangers everywhere.
CYRIL: You got to be
really careful when you grab
something here,
it's full of ants.
GEOFF: What worries me
more is like, the anacondas.
Or, uh, or, or jaguars.
CYRIL: Amazon style barbecue.
This is really cool.
First time I learned
about this technique was
here actually, in the Amazon.
Basically, the
principle is very simple.
You want to make a
grill with green wood
over hot coals or flame,
depending on what we
want for this fish to cook,
the fish is going to cook
before the green wood burns.
NARRATOR: On tonight's menu:
Amazon freshwater stingray.
CYRIL: It's the first time
that I'll eat this fish.
CYRIL: It smells very bad.
JOÃO: It's very good.
CYRIL: Yes?
CYRIL: They seem to say
it tastes good but it's
hard to believe, right?
GEOFF: Oh, man.
CYRIL: Jesse, have
you ever had some?
Yeah?
JESSE: Yeah, yeah.
When you're hungry,
you're hungry.
GEOFF: I'll try it, but
I'm not holding out hope.
What wine do you
pair with stingray?
CYRIL: Uh, maybe a chardonnay?
GEOFF: Mm.
NARRATOR: It's finally
dinnertime and the crew
is a little skeptical.
JOÃO: Ooh. Mm.
CYRIL: It's not bad.
But it's not good, either.
GEOFF: That's a
perfect description.
(laughing).
NARRATOR: With a
new day comes new hope
of catching a piraiba.
And new reminders of the
dangers that the jungle holds.
CYRIL: Welcome to the Amazon.
NARRATOR: Contrary
to popular belief,
tarantulas aren't deadly.
But in the Amazon,
there are plenty of snakes
and insects that are.
CYRIL: Mm. Time to wake up.
I'm going to go, uh,
send the GPS coordinates.
CHRIS: Good idea.
NARRATOR: Cyril sends their
GPS coordinates to his contact
at Brazil's military police
in case the team
needs to be evacuated,
while the crew
gets ready for the day.
And there's only one
thing on everyone's mind:
finding and
sampling a giant piraiba.
NARRATOR: In order to protect
the piraiba along its entire
spawning route,
scientists need to discover
how far upriver these
fish actually travel to spawn.
The best way to do that is
with DNA samples that can be
compared with fish caught
and sampled far downriver.
CYRIL: Imagine the
rapids that those fish have to
go through in their migration.
It's crazy.
They swim up those waters,
2,000 miles, more even.
NARRATOR: Amazon rivers are
punctuated by violent rapids
between stretches of
relatively slower water,
and that's where
Cyril is hoping to find
the piraiba's favorite meal.
CYRIL: I want to
catch a pacu, which is
really good bait for piraiba.
They mainly feed on,
on fruits and seeds that
fall down from the trees.
They sit underneath the trees,
wait for the fruit to fall
from the tree and
boom they eat it.
But in order for us to
catch a pacu first, we need to
find a, a tree
that has fruit in it.
Bingo.
EDER: Yeah, they eat
the fruit from that tree.
CYRIL: Oh, yeah.
CYRIL: Like a monkey...
EDER: Yes, monkey.
CYRIL: This is it.
NARRATOR: Using the fruit
as bait, Eder and João have a
special technique to
get pacu to take it.
EDER: It has to make noise.
CYRIL: Mm.
The idea is to mimic the
sound of a, of the fruit hitting
the surface so they can hear the
noise and boom come and grab it.
Oh, here I go.
Yes, that's what we want.
NARRATOR: Pacu are related
to piranhas, but unlike their
ferocious cousins...
CYRIL: Muito bom!
NARRATOR: They're vegetarians.
CYRIL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: And these little
guys should be perfect for
getting the attention
of a giant piraiba.
CYRIL: All right.
Let's go get a piraiba now.
NARRATOR: It doesn't take them
long to find a promising spot.
CYRIL: Yeah, it
looks good here.
Deep pool at a bottom
of a nice set of rapids.
EDER: It looks
good for big fish here.
CYRIL: Let's fish here!
CYRIL: Time to get
a bait in the water.
Sorry, little pacu,
science needs a piraiba.
I mean, look over there,
he's so well camouflaged.
NARRATOR: This spectacled
caiman is a good sign that
there's prey fish around,
which means there could
be other predators
here like the piraiba.
CYRIL: There he goes.
Look at the rod tip.
Boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom,
piranhas, piranhas.
When you feel bites like
ba-bum, ba-bum,
ba-bum-bum-bum-ba-ba-ba
that's piranhas that
are tearing apart my bait.
If you get a really
big piranha, usually what it's
gonna do is grab the bait
and run away from the shoal.
It's gone already.
It took the entire bait.
NARRATOR: With only
limited bait, he can't
keep feeding piranhas.
CYRIL: Okay, let's
put it back out there.
NARRATOR: So
Cyril casts out deeper,
hoping to find a piraiba.
While Cyril watches his line,
Jesse, ever the jungle man,
is busy watching birds.
CYRIL: That's a cool bird.
JESSE: Yeah?
Well, see how its
face is bright orange and
a white crest on
the back of its tail?
It's a black caracara.
CYRIL: A black caracara?
JESSE: Exactly.
CYRIL: Did you see that?
JESSE: Oh.
CYRIL: He nailed that fish.
JESSE: Oh, yeah.
You could learn
something from him, Cyril.
NARRATOR: After dozens of
casts around the entire pool,
the reality of how
difficult their task will be
is starting to set in.
GEOFF: Lorenzo doesn't
even know if there's
real giants out here.
Do you think there are?
CYRIL: There's
got to be, got to be.
We've got to go through here.
So many places
to fish, but it's huge.
So much water to cover,
it's just one line,
one hook in the water.
GEOFF: I got
faith in you, man.
Just gotta put in the time.
CYRIL: That's it.
JESSE: Ah, it looks like
there's some rain coming.
CYRIL: Okay, guys,
nothing's biting here.
Let's switch spots.
NARRATOR: The guys keep moving
up river and away from the rain.
But the Amazon
plays a trick on them.
GEOFF: Ah, the
rain is right there.
CYRIL: We're going to eat it.
Mm.
NARRATOR: With storms in front
and behind, there's no escape.
The team is getting wet.
GEOFF: We need
to cover the gear.
CYRIL: We should
stop and look for cover.
This is really crazy,
it's really coming down.
GEOFF: Well, at least it
can't get worse than this.
(thunder).
JESSE: Ah!
CYRIL: You guys all right?
CHRIS: Yes.
CYRIL: That was
so ... close, man.
JESSE: Dude.
CYRIL: All right, we
got to get out of here.
NARRATOR: The team is
suddenly in a lightning storm.
(thunder).
JESSE: There, it was there!
NARRATOR: A strike near
one of the boats could kill
everyone on board.
CYRIL: Yeah, we definitely
gotta get out of this!
EDER: There's a good
place there to stop.
CYRIL: Yes! It's perfect.
EDER: Yeah.
CYRIL: Geoff, you felt it?
GEOFF: I had my hand in the
water and I felt a shock, man.
CYRIL: Really?
GEOFF: Really close.
I grabbed onto Chris
like a little kid.
CYRIL: Get out,
get out, get out!
NARRATOR: Once again,
the Amazon is changing
the team's plans.
CYRIL: We gotta get out of here.
(thunder).
CYRIL: There was a lightning
strike so close to the boat.
I mean, it was not
even a split-second
between the lightning
and the thunder, right?
(thunder).
I mean, I've been really close
to lightning, but it was bad.
I think that was the
closest call in my life.
CHRIS: It was close, man.
GEOFF: Yeah,
we're definitely better
here than on a metal boat.
Agreed.
JESSE: For sure.
CYRIL: You're in the
middle of a big body of water,
but nothing around.
You're going to get hit.
GEOFF: You're
going to get hit. Yeah.
(thunder).
CYRIL: All right, all right.
GEOFF: Welcome
to the rainforest.
NARRATOR: After 30 minutes
with no more lightning strikes,
Cyril and the crew decide
it's time to keep fishing.
The worst of it is through,
I mean, there is no more
lightning, it's just rain now.
We just keep going, alright?
GEOFF: Yeah.
CYRIL: It's not gonna
be the most pleasant ride.
CYRIL: But...
EDER: Let's go!
NARRATOR: They still
don't have any samples from a
piraiba and the team can't
let the miserable weather
keep them from their mission.
GEOFF: The rain
is filling the boat.
NARRATOR: With a
line in the water, all
they can do now is wait.
And hope they catch a piraiba.
And just as crew morale
hits an all time low.
CYRIL: Oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a fish there.
Yeah.
CYRIL: Oh! It's a payara!
I just saw it jump,
it's a payara.
NARRATOR: It's not a piraiba.
It's a very
different kind of predator.
CYRIL: You wanna see a
monstrous looking fish?
NARRATOR: The payara is
also known as the vampire fish.
And it gets that name
from its two large fangs.
CYRIL: Poor fish,
look at its tail.
Its tail just got
devoured by piranhas.
NARRATOR: Releasing this fish
is going to be a little tricky.
GEOFF: Still man, be
careful of those fangs, dude.
CYRIL: I know, I'm careful!
GEOFF: If that
thing bites you, like...
you're going to get a
serious puncture wound.
NARRATOR: The vampire fish
is a fearsome predator,
but in the Amazon, almost
nothing is safe from piranhas.
CYRIL: Poor thing.
It's so rough down there.
Unreal.
NARRATOR: The weather clears,
and once again, the guys move
upriver to find a better spot
for the piraiba they need.
CYRIL: The water level has gone
up so much, look at the brush.
GEOFF: None of this
was under water before.
CYRIL: Yeah, that's not good!
NARRATOR: With all the rain,
the river has flooded its banks.
So the team is on high alert.
The fast waters are
more dangerous than ever,
littered with trees.
CYRIL: Watch out
for rocks, guys.
Rapids coming up.
NARRATOR: And hidden rocks.
CYRIL: Hold on, it's
getting shallow here.
EDER: Ay.
CYRIL: Rock, rock, rock, rock.
Oh, hold up.
CYRIL: Watch out, watch out!
NARRATOR: The boat is
lodged on a submerged rock.
CYRIL: Almost flipped here.
NARRATOR: If they don't
act quickly, the rushing water
could flip the boat.
CYRIL: Careful, guys.
CYRIL: Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!
NARRATOR: Cyril and Eder
try to turn the boat around.
CYRIL: Watch out, if it fills on
this side, it's going down guys.
NARRATOR: But with
Geoff and Chris still
in it, that isn't easy.
GEOFF: If it goes loose man,
it's going to roll
right over you, be careful.
CYRIL: Yeah, I know, I know.
CYRIL: That's good, that's good.
CYRIL: All right, all right,
I think we got it, we got it.
GEOFF: Good work, guys.
EDER: Oh. Yeah.
CYRIL: That was a close call,
almost flipped the boat.
That's what happens when you
go into uncharted territory.
NARRATOR: Undeterred by their
second close call of the day,
the team heads up a small
tributary to find a new pool
and try for a piraiba.
CYRIL: Should be good, these
catfish like an influx of water.
CYRIL: It's a good pool
isn't it? It looks deep.
EDER: We'll see
if it's any good.
NARRATOR: The Amazon
is a place of extremes.
They experienced one with
the storm, and here's another.
CHRIS: It's really hot.
It's amazing.
CYRIL: It's so
humid here, nothing dries up.
My feet are getting
eaten alive by fungus.
Hey, my, my feet
are rotten, dude.
(laughs).
JESSE: There's like a
little black crouton in there.
Hey, I'm going to have
nightmares about that.
CYRIL: I think we're
getting a little bored here
waiting for a bite.
It could take a lot of time.
NARRATOR: With no bites,
the crew moves further out into
the pool and not
a moment too soon.
CYRIL: Oh! Look out!
The tree!
Oh, man, did you see that?
The tree fell down.
GEOFF: Man, I'm shaking, I'm
having a hard time holding the
camera steady.
CYRIL: That one is going down.
GEOFF: Whoa!
CYRIL: Guys, that's
where we were fishing earlier.
We were right by the bank.
GEOFF: Man, we were
right there in the shade.
CYRIL: Yeah.
GEOFF: Like what,
like ten minutes ago,
five minutes ago?
CYRIL: Yeah, we
were right there, man.
I'm telling you.
That's why we got to be
careful when we're walking
through the woods.
That stuff can
happen all the time.
JESSE: 100%.
CYRIL: I mean, look
at that tree over there.
You know, if you're
fishing below it...
JESSE: No, that falls
on you, you're crushed.
CYRIL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The heavy
rain has dangerously
eroded the shoreline,
and the team is
beginning to feel like
the Amazon is testing them.
First...
(thunder).
JESSE: Ah!
NARRATOR: They were
almost hit by lightning.
JESSE: It was there!
NARRATOR: Then, they hit
a rock and nearly capsized.
CYRIL: Almost flipped here.
NARRATOR: And
now they were almost
crushed by a falling tree.
CYRIL: Guys, that's
where we were fishing earlier.
All right, let's
get out of here.
NARRATOR: Three close calls
is enough for one day, so the
guys continue upriver in
search of a good spot to camp.
Everyone is exhausted and Eder
takes a break from driving.
CYRIL: There are
rocks everywhere, you
got to be really careful.
They're just barely
underneath the surface.
I need to zigzag, normally
you zigzag between the rocks.
NARRATOR: The guys safely
make it through this section of
fast moving water.
CYRIL: You guys all right?
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: With
daylight fading,
Eder and João work on
the boat motor, which was
damaged by the rocks he hit
while the crew
set up the hammocks.
But Cyril hasn't given up on
their quest to catch a piraiba.
CYRIL: This is a really good
time of day to fish for piraiba.
Dusk, just
before dark, super active.
And don't forget
that those fish,
they don't feed by sight,
they feed by, by smell
and touch with their barbels.
So this should be a really
good moment, good time of day.
NARRATOR: As the sun sets, all
Cyril can do is wait and hope
that a giant is nearby.
CYRIL: Oh, got a bite.
Got a bite. Got a bite.
Yup, here we go.
It's a piranha I think.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
It's a big black piranha.
Look at that.
Man, those
things are everywhere.
Although those
guys hunt by sight,
they hunt like crazy
just before dark.
Look at this one.
Look at how big that mouth
is just like a steel trap.
Ruined my bait, buddy.
All right.
There you go.
NARRATOR: Piranhas don't like
the shallows, but Cyril waits
on shore just in case.
And he doesn't
have to wait long.
CYRIL: Oh, oh, oh, here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
Fish, fish, fish, fish.
(grunts).
This is a strong fish.
Oh yeah, we got a big fish.
Big fish, but I got to drag
it here to where I can land it.
Guys, it's a piraiba, I just saw
it on the surface over there.
NARRATOR: It's
the fish they need.
Cyril has to land it.
CHRIS: Hey, you okay?
CYRIL: Yeah.
Oh. Roots here.
NARRATOR: They haven't
gotten the sample yet.
This could be
their only chance.
CYRIL: I got a piraiba.
EDER: It's a big one, Cyril.
CYRIL: Might not be the
monster we're looking for yet,
but it's a good size fish.
I need you to get
the rod, get the rod please.
I'll go land the fish.
It's shallow here,
black piranhas don't
like shallow water.
We're safe.
NARRATOR: Finally,
the team has a piraiba.
Cyril needs to grab it so
they can take their first
DNA sample from
this remote region.
(laughs).
CYRIL: Yeah. Whoo!
Beautiful.
Piraiba, beautiful fish.
Let's get the hook
out of you, buddy.
Oh, yes.
The fish I have
been looking for.
Lorenzo is going to be
really happy with this fish.
It's a heavy fish.
It's got to be
100 pounds for sure.
Hey, look at that,
it's just pure muscle
and it can get much bigger.
Most people, you know, when
they think of catfish, they
think of lazy,
slimy bottom dwellers.
But with
the piraiba, think again.
I mean, sure, this fish will
definitely go after anything
it finds on the bottom,
which makes it a scavenger,
but it's also an
active predator.
If it sees a fish that
it can chase and attack,
he'll definitely go for it.
Look at the
mouth on this animal.
In the populated areas that
this fish has to go through on
its migrations, you know
fisherman have caught them and,
you know what they
found in their stomachs?
Cats and dogs.
That goes to show you that
this fish will, will pretty
much attack anything.
Here, if a monkey
crosses the river or
snake or even a big rodent,
for that matter, this
fish will take it down for sure.
There's got to be much bigger
fish out there, but we'll take
a sample from this one.
GEOFF: Here?
CYRIL: Yep. Whoa.
Whoa, watch out.
JESSE: No, we
can't lose you now.
GEOFF: No, it's like
57 inches, 145 centimeters.
CYRIL: 145 centimeters.
GEOFF: 34 inches.
86 centimeters.
CYRIL: 86 centimeters?
GEOFF: Yep.
Hey, by the way, I
felt something when I was
feeling the tail here.
He's got, like look, that's
the shape of a piranha's mouth.
CYRIL: That's
one bite right there.
GEOFF: Oh my gosh.
CYRIL: I'm telling you,
the piranhas here can
be underestimated, man.
They're giant.
Poor thing, it's
going to heal though.
GEOFF: Yeah. All right, buddy.
We're going to get you to,
get you swimming again.
NARRATOR: The team has finally
got their first sample from a
piraiba in this area.
GEOFF: Got it.
CYRIL: Oh.
It's ready to go.
NARRATOR: But because these
fish can grow much bigger, the
mission to collect their DNA
for Lorenzo isn't over yet.
CYRIL: Yes. Amigo!
EDER: I am so
happy for you, Cyril.
CYRIL: Thank you my friend.
Thank you so much.
EDER: That was a nice piraiba!
CYRIL: Yes! Very nice!
NARRATOR: The 100-pound
piraiba they caught last night
will provide great
data for the study.
CYRIL: Time to
get ready, guys.
I'll go send the
GPS coordinates.
NARRATOR: But just
like with the pirarucu,
Lorenzo wants samples
from the biggest possible
piraiba in this region.
LORENZO: We need you
to catch very big fish.
Our studies would be
richer and more detailed.
CYRIL: Okay.
NARRATOR: Piraiba can
grow to well over 300 pounds,
and the DNA of a giant
found here would contain
the genetic secrets of a
fish capable of surviving
in this harsh environment.
And could one day be used
to repopulate the species.
NARRATOR: The team is on
the move again, heading even
farther into this remote
corner of the Amazon jungle,
hoping to find a real
giant somewhere upriver.
Following the
piraiba's migration route,
Cyril and the team climb
one set of rapids after another,
and each one is
getting a little steeper.
CYRIL: Big rapids.
GEOFF: This is crazy here, man.
CYRIL: Yeah, it's crazy here.
NARRATOR: To avoid the
roughest waters, they stick
to the sides of the river.
But it's a tight fit.
CYRIL: Go! Go! Go!
CYRIL: Go guys, go guys.
You go first.
Okay, we're in the clear.
CYRIL: The boat is losing power!
CYRIL: Take some
weight off the front!
CHRIS: Whoa!
EDER: Faster! Faster! Faster!
CHRIS: Okay, this is not good.
JESSE: Oh, man, they
are falling back there.
Go, go, let's go.
CYRIL: Motor is shot.
Okay, we're going down, guys.
CHRIS: This is bad.
CYRIL: I have no power.
EDER: Cyril! That way!
CYRIL: Taking water,
taking water in, taking
water in, taking water in.
NARRATOR: Suddenly the team
is on the edge of disaster.
JESSE: Okay, come, guys!
GEOFF: Dude, the
motor's not working.
JESSE: Yeah, Geoff,
Geoff, throw the rope.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
GEOFF: You ready?
Here it comes.
JESSE: Got it.
CYRIL: Okay, tow us.
JESSE: João, João,
watch your head!
Watch your head!
Keep holding on, I got you.
CYRIL: Hang on to the brush,
hang on to the brush.
Hang on.
All right.
Watch out, watch out, guys.
We're good,
we're good, we're good.
We're safe.
Damn. Almost sunk.
JESSE: Look at the
water in your boat.
CYRIL: Yeah, yeah.
I'm telling you.
We took a big wave.
CHRIS: Whoa!
CYRIL: One little bit of
water more and this thing
was going down right away.
I mean, once it
starts taking water, poof!
GEOFF: Man, it was clear
right after that last rock, if
we had just made it past that
one we would have been clear.
CYRIL: There was just way
too much weight on the front of
the boat, on the bow.
And it was like a step,
you know, like basically the
rapids would go like this.
So by putting too much weight,
we took some water in right
over the bow,
filled up the boat.
Just, you would have been,
I mean, had we taken just a
little bit more water,
this boat would have gone down
like right away.
And we would have been
swimming in those rapids and
lost everything.
You feel the adrenaline?
GEOFF: Yeah, I still feel it.
I've got, uh, I got
adrenaline all going through me
right now, for sure.
MANU: Yep.
JESSE: Scared me.
CYRIL: Good job, man.
JESSE: Yeah.
CYRIL: Thanks, bud.
GEOFF: You guys were
good man, you guys were
on the ball like, uh, the,
the craziness happened.
I like, looked up
and you're there.
CYRIL: And Chris you shot.
I think you were
rolling the whole time, right?
CHRIS: Whole time.
CYRIL: You never stopped?
CHRIS: Never stopped.
CYRIL: This guy
is a machine, man.
Good job, guys.
GEOFF: Thanks a lot, guys.
CYRIL: Let's
take a look at this.
JOÃO: There was water.
EDER: Yes! There was.
CYRIL: Water in the filter.
CYRIL: He wants to drive now.
NARRATOR: Though they haven't
sampled a massive piraiba yet,
and the rainforest is making
this journey as unpredictable
as it is dangerous, the guys
are learning to work as a team.
Somewhere up ahead might
just be the last giant piraiba.
And they'll need
to work together if
they want to help protect it.
CYRIL: It's good.
NARRATOR: Having
made it up the rapids,
Eder wants to
check the problem motor.
CYRIL: I think
that's a good spot here.
EDER: Yes, that's good spot.
NARRATOR: So they find a
good spot to put ashore.
CYRIL: That's a
spectacled caiman over there.
There must be a lot
of piranhas here because
they love it.
NARRATOR: While Eder and João
work on the engine, Cyril and
the crew go looking for a
spot to find a giant piraiba.
CYRIL: Hey, guys, over here,
I think this spot will work.
And if we don't
catch a piraiba here,
we should catch something.
It's a perfect spot.
Just below a set of rapids,
a big, deep pool, nice eddy.
Something should take this bait.
NARRATOR: Cyril aims for the
pool at the base of the rapids,
and the current
should carry the bait
to any predators that might
be in the neighborhood.
CYRIL: All right.
All we can do now is wait.
Oh, there's
something on the line.
(grunts).
CHRIS: What is it, do
you think it's a piraiba?
CYRIL: No, I
think it's a piranha.
What is that?
It doesn't move
like a piranha.
It's weird.
NARRATOR: Cyril suddenly
finds himself in a battle
with a mystery fish.
CYRIL: What is this?
What is this fish?
Moves really weird.
It's coming up,
it's coming up.
Just about to see
what this fish is.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, it's an
electric eel, electric eel.
No, get out of the water, guys
Get out of the water.
GEOFF: Out, everybody out.
Everybody out.
CYRIL: Get out, get out,
everybody out of the water.
CYRIL: Ah!
CHRIS: Cyril!
like a piranha, it's weird.
What is this?
It's coming up,
it's coming up.
We're just about to
see what this fish is.
There it is. There it is.
Oh, it's an electric eel.
Electric eel.
Get out of the water, guys,
get out of the water.
GEOFF: Out.
Everybody out. Everybody out.
CYRIL: Everybody
out of the water.
Ah!
GEOFF: Cyril!
NARRATOR: Cyril Chauquet spends
his life traveling the world...
CYRIL: Easy, big guy.
NARRATOR: In
search of massive fish.
CYRIL: Ah! Look at
the size of that thing.
NARRATOR: No matter the danger.
CYRIL: Look at the
amount of venom on that bark.
Careful.
NARRATOR: He'll do
whatever it takes to
see these giants up close.
CYRIL (over radio): He
could almost swallow me whole.
NARRATOR: But many of these
animals are also in danger.
CYRIL: They're facing a
lot of challenges as fish.
NARRATOR: From
habitat destruction, pollution,
and commercial overfishing.
Now, Cyril and his team
of adventure filmmakers
are on a grueling
mission across the globe.
CYRIL: Look out!
GEOFF: Unbelievable.
CYRIL: Whoa!
Oh, yeah!
NARRATOR: To help
scientists study these
fantastic creatures
and protect them.
CYRIL: We have the choice,
whether we preserve those fish
or we let them go extinct.
NARRATOR: Together,
they'll fight to save
the last of the giants.
NARRATOR: Previously...
CYRIL: Here we go.
NARRATOR: The team traveled deep
into the Amazon jungle in Brazil
on a mission to
collect DNA samples from
the two largest freshwater
giants in South America.
After surviving
a flash flood...
GEOFF: Man, the samples!
Get them, get them, get them.
JESSE: Ah!
NARRATOR: And bullet ants.
CYRIL: Jesse just
got stung by this.
JESSE: Oh,
it's coming, the pain!
Ah!
NARRATOR: They managed to
sample a massive pirarucu.
CYRIL: This fish
is over seven feet.
Did you see the
size of this fish?
Man.
NARRATOR: They then traveled
far upriver with locals
Eder and João to
find the Goliath catfish,
known locally as the piraiba.
Cyril finally
got one on the line.
CYRIL: He's pulling the boat.
NARRATOR: But before
they could sample it...
CYRIL: I see some
big rapids there.
NARRATOR: It pulled
them into the current.
GEOFF: No, just
give me last shot, okay?
EDER: Hurry! We
are in the big rapids!
Hurry!
CYRIL: We're going
to hit some rocks here.
EDER: The motor won't start!
MANU: Guys, the
rapids are like right here.
NARRATOR: Just as
they're about to get
their first sample
from a piraiba.
CYRIL: This fish is going
to get beat up in the rapids.
Hey, Jesse, pass
me the pliers there.
NARRATOR: The
situation gets dangerous.
CYRIL: I gotta
let it go, this fish.
GEOFF: Just give me one
last shot, okay, one more.
CYRIL: It's going to die.
EDER: Faster Cyril! We're about
to start going down the rapids!
It's very dangerous here!
We're putting our lives at risk!
CYRIL: Okay.
NARRATOR: They have no
choice but to let the giant go
in order to save it.
CYRIL: He's gone.
NARRATOR: And save themselves.
CYRIL: Go! Go!
Start the motor!
Start the motor!
CYRIL: The motor won't start.
Big, big rocks
coming up, guys, big rocks.
CYRIL: Brace for impact!
NARRATOR: Without an engine,
the team is at the mercy of
the current and could
capsize at any moment.
CYRIL: Hold on guys, hold on.
Okay, we're good.
EDER: Cyril! I got it started!
CYRIL: We are good now.
EDER: We're good!
CYRIL: We're good guys.
Now we're safe.
Damn, we had it, man.
GEOFF: Yeah.
NARRATOR: They didn't get
their sample, but the guys are
thankful that they
and the fish escaped
a dangerous situation.
GEOFF: We almost had it.
CYRIL: We had it, I was
holding it and you were like,
you were about to
get the fin clipped.
GEOFF: I didn't
want to cut his fin off.
I just wanted to
get a little clip.
CYRIL: Yeah,
I know, I know, I know.
I know. I know.
NARRATOR: This
deep in the rainforest,
one of the biggest obstacles
in their mission is turning out
to be the Amazon itself.
GEOFF: But man, if it gets
any more intense than this,
I think I'm going to
have a heart attack.
Hey, you got a cut
on your hand, man.
CYRIL: I know.
Yeah, that's the line.
I'm just gonna pull it off.
You want a sample?
GEOFF: Yeah.
CYRIL: Grab your sample, man.
GEOFF: There you go.
We'll send that to Lorenzo.
Hey, piranhas, a
little bit of Cyril.
NARRATOR: They
missed their first
chance at sampling a piraiba,
but at least it
was confirmation that these
massive fish can still
be found in these waters.
Very little is
known about these fish.
And the crew is in this remote
area of the Amazon rainforest
in Brazil to collect
DNA samples from these
threatened giants for Brazilian
biologist Lorenzo Barroco.
LORENZO: The piraiba
is an enormous fish.
It's really
important for the ecosystem.
NARRATOR: Just like the
prehistoric pirarucu that
the team already
succeeded in sampling,
the piraiba sits
at the top of the most
massive list of freshwater fish
in South America.
But unlike the pirarucu,
this giant likes to travel far.
To spawn, the piraiba makes
the longest migration of any
freshwater fish
on planet Earth.
And the team's study will
demonstrate the links between
the piraiba populations
across the entire course
of their migration.
Because these giants need to
move so much, if they aren't
protected throughout
their whole migration,
they could be in
serious trouble.
CYRIL: So, if a dam is
built in the middle of
the river, it's all over.
LORENZO: Yes Cyril,
it can be catastrophic.
NARRATOR: The team's mission
is critical to discovering the
piraiba's full range, and
Cyril is feeling the pressure.
He's already lost one and
finding more out here is going
to be tough.
CYRIL: Whoa, let's
see what we've got here.
I don't remember
this fort from the map.
CYRIL: Do you
know this location?
EDER: No!
CYRIL: No?
NARRATOR: There are dozens
of tributaries, and choosing
the right area to fish in this
maze is frustratingly difficult.
CYRIL: I guess, let's
stick to the main channel.
NARRATOR: The piraiba
could be anywhere here.
So Cyril needs to
choose his spots, well.
CYRIL: We are in
a deep pool here.
EDER: Yes, it's deep here.
CYRIL: Had a good
feeling about this spot,
see a lot of swirls like this.
Right here, there's a back
eddy here, the water seems to
be going back up there so the
food should be staying here.
NARRATOR: They pull
the boat up to the shore
and the waiting game begins.
CYRIL: Oh. Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Something's biting.
Here we go.
(grunting).
Oh, yeah.
NARRATOR: Whatever
it is, it's strong.
And once again, the
boat is pulled into
the middle of the river.
CYRIL: I don't
think it's a cat, but
it's a strong fighter,
whatever it is.
Oh, man.
It's a nice-size fish.
Nice.
On.
EDER: Traira, traira.
CYRIL: It's a wolffish.
NARRATOR: This may not be the
piraiba the team is looking for,
but it is one of the Amazon's
legendary predator fish.
CYRIL: I gotta be
really careful here.
Oh.
See?
Biting on pliers right now.
Yes.
Look at the
size of this traira.
That's the name it's got
here in Portuguese in Brazil.
It's mainly a
nocturnal feeder.
That's why in English it's
commonly called a wolffish,
feeds mainly at night but
obviously it feeds during
the day too 'cause
they're opportunistic feeders.
You know, if they see
anything that passes by the face
that they like, they'll take it.
Beautiful animal.
We can't really tell it's
a predator until you look
carefully in their mouths.
Same thing on
the lower jaw here.
Look.
This fish makes the
piranha look like a poodle.
All right, let's get
this guy back in water.
CYRIL: Very good!
CYRIL: Okay, guys, let's
keep looking for piraiba.
NARRATOR: This is
a promising spot,
so Cyril keeps casting,
and the crew keeps waiting.
GEOFF: Oh, it's
starting to rain.
NARRATOR: But after an hour...
CYRIL: Ah,
nothing's taking the bait.
Let's get out of here.
NARRATOR: They decide
to keep moving upriver.
CYRIL: You guys
enjoying your trip?
CHRIS: Oddly,
it's raining more.
NARRATOR: The weather in
the Amazon is unpredictable.
CYRIL: Looks like we
got a little situation here.
NARRATOR: And
so are the rivers.
CYRIL: We can't go up here.
EDER: It's very strong.
NARRATOR: To increase their
chances of finding piraiba,
they need to keep moving upriver
farther from human activity.
CYRIL: I think we're
gonna have to push the
boats through the rapids.
NARRATOR: But with this current,
that's not going to be easy.
CYRIL: It's not that deep.
NARRATOR: The plan is
simple: get out of the
boat and start pushing.
JESSE: Good?
CHRIS: All right, you good?
JESSE: Yeah.
CYRIL: The one thing that's key
is that you never
let go of the boat.
CYRIL: Because you
might fall into a big hole.
You don't want to
go underneath the boat
or get sucked under.
Okay, let's go.
NARRATOR: They need to
move carefully because
the river bottom is made up
of jagged and slippery rocks.
One false move
could mean disaster.
This portage will be punishing.
CYRIL: Oh!
GEOFF: Oh, right there.
Big hole right here, yeah.
NARRATOR: The force of
the rapids, combined with
the weight of the boat equals
hundreds of pounds of drag,
which is wearing down the team.
And in this situation,
fatigue means danger.
CHRIS: Geoff, Geoff!
NARRATOR: Geoff goes down hard,
but reacts quickly
and holds on to the boat.
CYRIL: You all right?
GEOFF: Yeah, I
really hit my knee hard.
CYRIL: You can get in
the boat if you want.
We can pull you.
GEOFF: No, no,
I'm good, thanks.
NARRATOR: The
current is relentless and
the guys are getting tired.
JESSE: Whoa!
MANU: Oh, Jesse, Jesse,
give me your hand.
CYRIL: Careful over there, guys.
(speaking native language).
NARRATOR: They need
to make one last push
to the top before
someone gets badly hurt.
But just as the first boat
makes it into the clear,
boat number two
gets stuck on a rock.
MANU: I can't move it!
NARRATOR: Without some help,
it's not going to budge.
So Cyril heads back.
MANU: One, two, three!
Left, left, yeah!
(laughing).
CYRIL: Good job, buddy.
Good job.
Oh.
Good job, man.
JESSE: That was awesome.
NARRATOR: But
they didn't make it up
without a few battle scars.
CYRIL: Right there.
GEOFF: Ouch. Man.
GEOFF: All I can say
is that there better
be some fish out there.
CYRIL: A little time of
relaxation for the team before
we go back into some craziness.
(laughing).
NARRATOR: With the
rapids behind them, they push
deeper into the Amazon jungle
with the hope that somewhere
up ahead, they'll find
a section of river that could
hold a giant piraiba.
But navigating
this wild territory...
CYRIL: Careful guys.
NARRATOR: Isn't easy.
CYRIL: Oh, well, looks
like we're going to have
to push the boats again.
GEOFF: Surprise, surprise.
CYRIL: Hey, watch
your footing, guys.
MANU: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The team
moves slowly and keeps
a constant
lookout for any dangers.
CYRIL: Wait, wait!
CYRIL: Stop, stop, stop, stop.
CYRIL: There's a
stingray right there.
CYRIL: Look, look, look.
Right there, right there.
NARRATOR: The freshwater
stingray or river stingray,
is feared by locals
because of its ruthless sting.
CYRIL: If you step on, it'll
feel threatened right away
and whip its tail, and
nail you with the barb.
NARRATOR: Its tail
can whip up in an instant
and stab you with
its venomous barb,
causing unbearable pain,
which is why locals have
nicknamed these stingrays
the wish-you-were-dead fish.
EDER: It's good to eat.
CYRIL: It's good to eat?
EDER: Yes.
NARRATOR: But as
for Eder and João, they
want to eat it for supper.
CYRIL: Be careful
Eder, be careful.
NARRATOR: Using an
improvised harpoon,
Eder carefully approaches
the stingray from behind.
He gets it.
The guys need to
keep a safe distance
from the
stingray's venomous barb.
CYRIL: Watch the tail, guys.
Watch the tail.
JESSE: That's a big one too!
CYRIL: That barb, that's what
you want to stay away from.
CYRIL: It's good to eat?
EDER: Yes, it's good to eat.
Delicious.
NARRATOR: It stops raining.
CYRIL: Man, what did we
get ourselves into here?
NARRATOR: And the
team is still searching
for a way out of the jungle.
CYRIL: Not out
of the woods yet.
We're stuck on a log.
Hold on, I know what to do.
Okay, guys, what
we're going to do is
we're going to push this
boat as soon as we feel that
the weight is transferring
to the, to the bow.
You come to the bow.
GEOFF: Okay.
CYRIL: Go, front, front.
(groans).
There we go.
GEOFF: Nice.
And check it out,
it opens up up there.
NARRATOR: The crew finally
escapes the jungle unscathed.
CYRIL: Ouch, ow.
NARRATOR: Almost.
CYRIL: Hit me right in the face.
Did you like my shortcut?
NARRATOR: With
nightfall fast approaching,
Cyril and his team need to
set up camp quickly before
the nocturnal predators
come out to hunt.
CYRIL: We're gonna eat
some Amazon stingray tonight.
They say it's pretty good,
I guess we'll find out.
All right, some wood here.
NARRATOR: The crew will
sleep in hammocks to keep
off the ground, but
this deep in the Amazon,
there are dangers everywhere.
CYRIL: You got to be
really careful when you grab
something here,
it's full of ants.
GEOFF: What worries me
more is like, the anacondas.
Or, uh, or, or jaguars.
CYRIL: Amazon style barbecue.
This is really cool.
First time I learned
about this technique was
here actually, in the Amazon.
Basically, the
principle is very simple.
You want to make a
grill with green wood
over hot coals or flame,
depending on what we
want for this fish to cook,
the fish is going to cook
before the green wood burns.
NARRATOR: On tonight's menu:
Amazon freshwater stingray.
CYRIL: It's the first time
that I'll eat this fish.
CYRIL: It smells very bad.
JOÃO: It's very good.
CYRIL: Yes?
CYRIL: They seem to say
it tastes good but it's
hard to believe, right?
GEOFF: Oh, man.
CYRIL: Jesse, have
you ever had some?
Yeah?
JESSE: Yeah, yeah.
When you're hungry,
you're hungry.
GEOFF: I'll try it, but
I'm not holding out hope.
What wine do you
pair with stingray?
CYRIL: Uh, maybe a chardonnay?
GEOFF: Mm.
NARRATOR: It's finally
dinnertime and the crew
is a little skeptical.
JOÃO: Ooh. Mm.
CYRIL: It's not bad.
But it's not good, either.
GEOFF: That's a
perfect description.
(laughing).
NARRATOR: With a
new day comes new hope
of catching a piraiba.
And new reminders of the
dangers that the jungle holds.
CYRIL: Welcome to the Amazon.
NARRATOR: Contrary
to popular belief,
tarantulas aren't deadly.
But in the Amazon,
there are plenty of snakes
and insects that are.
CYRIL: Mm. Time to wake up.
I'm going to go, uh,
send the GPS coordinates.
CHRIS: Good idea.
NARRATOR: Cyril sends their
GPS coordinates to his contact
at Brazil's military police
in case the team
needs to be evacuated,
while the crew
gets ready for the day.
And there's only one
thing on everyone's mind:
finding and
sampling a giant piraiba.
NARRATOR: In order to protect
the piraiba along its entire
spawning route,
scientists need to discover
how far upriver these
fish actually travel to spawn.
The best way to do that is
with DNA samples that can be
compared with fish caught
and sampled far downriver.
CYRIL: Imagine the
rapids that those fish have to
go through in their migration.
It's crazy.
They swim up those waters,
2,000 miles, more even.
NARRATOR: Amazon rivers are
punctuated by violent rapids
between stretches of
relatively slower water,
and that's where
Cyril is hoping to find
the piraiba's favorite meal.
CYRIL: I want to
catch a pacu, which is
really good bait for piraiba.
They mainly feed on,
on fruits and seeds that
fall down from the trees.
They sit underneath the trees,
wait for the fruit to fall
from the tree and
boom they eat it.
But in order for us to
catch a pacu first, we need to
find a, a tree
that has fruit in it.
Bingo.
EDER: Yeah, they eat
the fruit from that tree.
CYRIL: Oh, yeah.
CYRIL: Like a monkey...
EDER: Yes, monkey.
CYRIL: This is it.
NARRATOR: Using the fruit
as bait, Eder and João have a
special technique to
get pacu to take it.
EDER: It has to make noise.
CYRIL: Mm.
The idea is to mimic the
sound of a, of the fruit hitting
the surface so they can hear the
noise and boom come and grab it.
Oh, here I go.
Yes, that's what we want.
NARRATOR: Pacu are related
to piranhas, but unlike their
ferocious cousins...
CYRIL: Muito bom!
NARRATOR: They're vegetarians.
CYRIL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: And these little
guys should be perfect for
getting the attention
of a giant piraiba.
CYRIL: All right.
Let's go get a piraiba now.
NARRATOR: It doesn't take them
long to find a promising spot.
CYRIL: Yeah, it
looks good here.
Deep pool at a bottom
of a nice set of rapids.
EDER: It looks
good for big fish here.
CYRIL: Let's fish here!
CYRIL: Time to get
a bait in the water.
Sorry, little pacu,
science needs a piraiba.
I mean, look over there,
he's so well camouflaged.
NARRATOR: This spectacled
caiman is a good sign that
there's prey fish around,
which means there could
be other predators
here like the piraiba.
CYRIL: There he goes.
Look at the rod tip.
Boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom,
piranhas, piranhas.
When you feel bites like
ba-bum, ba-bum,
ba-bum-bum-bum-ba-ba-ba
that's piranhas that
are tearing apart my bait.
If you get a really
big piranha, usually what it's
gonna do is grab the bait
and run away from the shoal.
It's gone already.
It took the entire bait.
NARRATOR: With only
limited bait, he can't
keep feeding piranhas.
CYRIL: Okay, let's
put it back out there.
NARRATOR: So
Cyril casts out deeper,
hoping to find a piraiba.
While Cyril watches his line,
Jesse, ever the jungle man,
is busy watching birds.
CYRIL: That's a cool bird.
JESSE: Yeah?
Well, see how its
face is bright orange and
a white crest on
the back of its tail?
It's a black caracara.
CYRIL: A black caracara?
JESSE: Exactly.
CYRIL: Did you see that?
JESSE: Oh.
CYRIL: He nailed that fish.
JESSE: Oh, yeah.
You could learn
something from him, Cyril.
NARRATOR: After dozens of
casts around the entire pool,
the reality of how
difficult their task will be
is starting to set in.
GEOFF: Lorenzo doesn't
even know if there's
real giants out here.
Do you think there are?
CYRIL: There's
got to be, got to be.
We've got to go through here.
So many places
to fish, but it's huge.
So much water to cover,
it's just one line,
one hook in the water.
GEOFF: I got
faith in you, man.
Just gotta put in the time.
CYRIL: That's it.
JESSE: Ah, it looks like
there's some rain coming.
CYRIL: Okay, guys,
nothing's biting here.
Let's switch spots.
NARRATOR: The guys keep moving
up river and away from the rain.
But the Amazon
plays a trick on them.
GEOFF: Ah, the
rain is right there.
CYRIL: We're going to eat it.
Mm.
NARRATOR: With storms in front
and behind, there's no escape.
The team is getting wet.
GEOFF: We need
to cover the gear.
CYRIL: We should
stop and look for cover.
This is really crazy,
it's really coming down.
GEOFF: Well, at least it
can't get worse than this.
(thunder).
JESSE: Ah!
CYRIL: You guys all right?
CHRIS: Yes.
CYRIL: That was
so ... close, man.
JESSE: Dude.
CYRIL: All right, we
got to get out of here.
NARRATOR: The team is
suddenly in a lightning storm.
(thunder).
JESSE: There, it was there!
NARRATOR: A strike near
one of the boats could kill
everyone on board.
CYRIL: Yeah, we definitely
gotta get out of this!
EDER: There's a good
place there to stop.
CYRIL: Yes! It's perfect.
EDER: Yeah.
CYRIL: Geoff, you felt it?
GEOFF: I had my hand in the
water and I felt a shock, man.
CYRIL: Really?
GEOFF: Really close.
I grabbed onto Chris
like a little kid.
CYRIL: Get out,
get out, get out!
NARRATOR: Once again,
the Amazon is changing
the team's plans.
CYRIL: We gotta get out of here.
(thunder).
CYRIL: There was a lightning
strike so close to the boat.
I mean, it was not
even a split-second
between the lightning
and the thunder, right?
(thunder).
I mean, I've been really close
to lightning, but it was bad.
I think that was the
closest call in my life.
CHRIS: It was close, man.
GEOFF: Yeah,
we're definitely better
here than on a metal boat.
Agreed.
JESSE: For sure.
CYRIL: You're in the
middle of a big body of water,
but nothing around.
You're going to get hit.
GEOFF: You're
going to get hit. Yeah.
(thunder).
CYRIL: All right, all right.
GEOFF: Welcome
to the rainforest.
NARRATOR: After 30 minutes
with no more lightning strikes,
Cyril and the crew decide
it's time to keep fishing.
The worst of it is through,
I mean, there is no more
lightning, it's just rain now.
We just keep going, alright?
GEOFF: Yeah.
CYRIL: It's not gonna
be the most pleasant ride.
CYRIL: But...
EDER: Let's go!
NARRATOR: They still
don't have any samples from a
piraiba and the team can't
let the miserable weather
keep them from their mission.
GEOFF: The rain
is filling the boat.
NARRATOR: With a
line in the water, all
they can do now is wait.
And hope they catch a piraiba.
And just as crew morale
hits an all time low.
CYRIL: Oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a fish there.
Yeah.
CYRIL: Oh! It's a payara!
I just saw it jump,
it's a payara.
NARRATOR: It's not a piraiba.
It's a very
different kind of predator.
CYRIL: You wanna see a
monstrous looking fish?
NARRATOR: The payara is
also known as the vampire fish.
And it gets that name
from its two large fangs.
CYRIL: Poor fish,
look at its tail.
Its tail just got
devoured by piranhas.
NARRATOR: Releasing this fish
is going to be a little tricky.
GEOFF: Still man, be
careful of those fangs, dude.
CYRIL: I know, I'm careful!
GEOFF: If that
thing bites you, like...
you're going to get a
serious puncture wound.
NARRATOR: The vampire fish
is a fearsome predator,
but in the Amazon, almost
nothing is safe from piranhas.
CYRIL: Poor thing.
It's so rough down there.
Unreal.
NARRATOR: The weather clears,
and once again, the guys move
upriver to find a better spot
for the piraiba they need.
CYRIL: The water level has gone
up so much, look at the brush.
GEOFF: None of this
was under water before.
CYRIL: Yeah, that's not good!
NARRATOR: With all the rain,
the river has flooded its banks.
So the team is on high alert.
The fast waters are
more dangerous than ever,
littered with trees.
CYRIL: Watch out
for rocks, guys.
Rapids coming up.
NARRATOR: And hidden rocks.
CYRIL: Hold on, it's
getting shallow here.
EDER: Ay.
CYRIL: Rock, rock, rock, rock.
Oh, hold up.
CYRIL: Watch out, watch out!
NARRATOR: The boat is
lodged on a submerged rock.
CYRIL: Almost flipped here.
NARRATOR: If they don't
act quickly, the rushing water
could flip the boat.
CYRIL: Careful, guys.
CYRIL: Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!
NARRATOR: Cyril and Eder
try to turn the boat around.
CYRIL: Watch out, if it fills on
this side, it's going down guys.
NARRATOR: But with
Geoff and Chris still
in it, that isn't easy.
GEOFF: If it goes loose man,
it's going to roll
right over you, be careful.
CYRIL: Yeah, I know, I know.
CYRIL: That's good, that's good.
CYRIL: All right, all right,
I think we got it, we got it.
GEOFF: Good work, guys.
EDER: Oh. Yeah.
CYRIL: That was a close call,
almost flipped the boat.
That's what happens when you
go into uncharted territory.
NARRATOR: Undeterred by their
second close call of the day,
the team heads up a small
tributary to find a new pool
and try for a piraiba.
CYRIL: Should be good, these
catfish like an influx of water.
CYRIL: It's a good pool
isn't it? It looks deep.
EDER: We'll see
if it's any good.
NARRATOR: The Amazon
is a place of extremes.
They experienced one with
the storm, and here's another.
CHRIS: It's really hot.
It's amazing.
CYRIL: It's so
humid here, nothing dries up.
My feet are getting
eaten alive by fungus.
Hey, my, my feet
are rotten, dude.
(laughs).
JESSE: There's like a
little black crouton in there.
Hey, I'm going to have
nightmares about that.
CYRIL: I think we're
getting a little bored here
waiting for a bite.
It could take a lot of time.
NARRATOR: With no bites,
the crew moves further out into
the pool and not
a moment too soon.
CYRIL: Oh! Look out!
The tree!
Oh, man, did you see that?
The tree fell down.
GEOFF: Man, I'm shaking, I'm
having a hard time holding the
camera steady.
CYRIL: That one is going down.
GEOFF: Whoa!
CYRIL: Guys, that's
where we were fishing earlier.
We were right by the bank.
GEOFF: Man, we were
right there in the shade.
CYRIL: Yeah.
GEOFF: Like what,
like ten minutes ago,
five minutes ago?
CYRIL: Yeah, we
were right there, man.
I'm telling you.
That's why we got to be
careful when we're walking
through the woods.
That stuff can
happen all the time.
JESSE: 100%.
CYRIL: I mean, look
at that tree over there.
You know, if you're
fishing below it...
JESSE: No, that falls
on you, you're crushed.
CYRIL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The heavy
rain has dangerously
eroded the shoreline,
and the team is
beginning to feel like
the Amazon is testing them.
First...
(thunder).
JESSE: Ah!
NARRATOR: They were
almost hit by lightning.
JESSE: It was there!
NARRATOR: Then, they hit
a rock and nearly capsized.
CYRIL: Almost flipped here.
NARRATOR: And
now they were almost
crushed by a falling tree.
CYRIL: Guys, that's
where we were fishing earlier.
All right, let's
get out of here.
NARRATOR: Three close calls
is enough for one day, so the
guys continue upriver in
search of a good spot to camp.
Everyone is exhausted and Eder
takes a break from driving.
CYRIL: There are
rocks everywhere, you
got to be really careful.
They're just barely
underneath the surface.
I need to zigzag, normally
you zigzag between the rocks.
NARRATOR: The guys safely
make it through this section of
fast moving water.
CYRIL: You guys all right?
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: With
daylight fading,
Eder and João work on
the boat motor, which was
damaged by the rocks he hit
while the crew
set up the hammocks.
But Cyril hasn't given up on
their quest to catch a piraiba.
CYRIL: This is a really good
time of day to fish for piraiba.
Dusk, just
before dark, super active.
And don't forget
that those fish,
they don't feed by sight,
they feed by, by smell
and touch with their barbels.
So this should be a really
good moment, good time of day.
NARRATOR: As the sun sets, all
Cyril can do is wait and hope
that a giant is nearby.
CYRIL: Oh, got a bite.
Got a bite. Got a bite.
Yup, here we go.
It's a piranha I think.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
It's a big black piranha.
Look at that.
Man, those
things are everywhere.
Although those
guys hunt by sight,
they hunt like crazy
just before dark.
Look at this one.
Look at how big that mouth
is just like a steel trap.
Ruined my bait, buddy.
All right.
There you go.
NARRATOR: Piranhas don't like
the shallows, but Cyril waits
on shore just in case.
And he doesn't
have to wait long.
CYRIL: Oh, oh, oh, here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
Fish, fish, fish, fish.
(grunts).
This is a strong fish.
Oh yeah, we got a big fish.
Big fish, but I got to drag
it here to where I can land it.
Guys, it's a piraiba, I just saw
it on the surface over there.
NARRATOR: It's
the fish they need.
Cyril has to land it.
CHRIS: Hey, you okay?
CYRIL: Yeah.
Oh. Roots here.
NARRATOR: They haven't
gotten the sample yet.
This could be
their only chance.
CYRIL: I got a piraiba.
EDER: It's a big one, Cyril.
CYRIL: Might not be the
monster we're looking for yet,
but it's a good size fish.
I need you to get
the rod, get the rod please.
I'll go land the fish.
It's shallow here,
black piranhas don't
like shallow water.
We're safe.
NARRATOR: Finally,
the team has a piraiba.
Cyril needs to grab it so
they can take their first
DNA sample from
this remote region.
(laughs).
CYRIL: Yeah. Whoo!
Beautiful.
Piraiba, beautiful fish.
Let's get the hook
out of you, buddy.
Oh, yes.
The fish I have
been looking for.
Lorenzo is going to be
really happy with this fish.
It's a heavy fish.
It's got to be
100 pounds for sure.
Hey, look at that,
it's just pure muscle
and it can get much bigger.
Most people, you know, when
they think of catfish, they
think of lazy,
slimy bottom dwellers.
But with
the piraiba, think again.
I mean, sure, this fish will
definitely go after anything
it finds on the bottom,
which makes it a scavenger,
but it's also an
active predator.
If it sees a fish that
it can chase and attack,
he'll definitely go for it.
Look at the
mouth on this animal.
In the populated areas that
this fish has to go through on
its migrations, you know
fisherman have caught them and,
you know what they
found in their stomachs?
Cats and dogs.
That goes to show you that
this fish will, will pretty
much attack anything.
Here, if a monkey
crosses the river or
snake or even a big rodent,
for that matter, this
fish will take it down for sure.
There's got to be much bigger
fish out there, but we'll take
a sample from this one.
GEOFF: Here?
CYRIL: Yep. Whoa.
Whoa, watch out.
JESSE: No, we
can't lose you now.
GEOFF: No, it's like
57 inches, 145 centimeters.
CYRIL: 145 centimeters.
GEOFF: 34 inches.
86 centimeters.
CYRIL: 86 centimeters?
GEOFF: Yep.
Hey, by the way, I
felt something when I was
feeling the tail here.
He's got, like look, that's
the shape of a piranha's mouth.
CYRIL: That's
one bite right there.
GEOFF: Oh my gosh.
CYRIL: I'm telling you,
the piranhas here can
be underestimated, man.
They're giant.
Poor thing, it's
going to heal though.
GEOFF: Yeah. All right, buddy.
We're going to get you to,
get you swimming again.
NARRATOR: The team has finally
got their first sample from a
piraiba in this area.
GEOFF: Got it.
CYRIL: Oh.
It's ready to go.
NARRATOR: But because these
fish can grow much bigger, the
mission to collect their DNA
for Lorenzo isn't over yet.
CYRIL: Yes. Amigo!
EDER: I am so
happy for you, Cyril.
CYRIL: Thank you my friend.
Thank you so much.
EDER: That was a nice piraiba!
CYRIL: Yes! Very nice!
NARRATOR: The 100-pound
piraiba they caught last night
will provide great
data for the study.
CYRIL: Time to
get ready, guys.
I'll go send the
GPS coordinates.
NARRATOR: But just
like with the pirarucu,
Lorenzo wants samples
from the biggest possible
piraiba in this region.
LORENZO: We need you
to catch very big fish.
Our studies would be
richer and more detailed.
CYRIL: Okay.
NARRATOR: Piraiba can
grow to well over 300 pounds,
and the DNA of a giant
found here would contain
the genetic secrets of a
fish capable of surviving
in this harsh environment.
And could one day be used
to repopulate the species.
NARRATOR: The team is on
the move again, heading even
farther into this remote
corner of the Amazon jungle,
hoping to find a real
giant somewhere upriver.
Following the
piraiba's migration route,
Cyril and the team climb
one set of rapids after another,
and each one is
getting a little steeper.
CYRIL: Big rapids.
GEOFF: This is crazy here, man.
CYRIL: Yeah, it's crazy here.
NARRATOR: To avoid the
roughest waters, they stick
to the sides of the river.
But it's a tight fit.
CYRIL: Go! Go! Go!
CYRIL: Go guys, go guys.
You go first.
Okay, we're in the clear.
CYRIL: The boat is losing power!
CYRIL: Take some
weight off the front!
CHRIS: Whoa!
EDER: Faster! Faster! Faster!
CHRIS: Okay, this is not good.
JESSE: Oh, man, they
are falling back there.
Go, go, let's go.
CYRIL: Motor is shot.
Okay, we're going down, guys.
CHRIS: This is bad.
CYRIL: I have no power.
EDER: Cyril! That way!
CYRIL: Taking water,
taking water in, taking
water in, taking water in.
NARRATOR: Suddenly the team
is on the edge of disaster.
JESSE: Okay, come, guys!
GEOFF: Dude, the
motor's not working.
JESSE: Yeah, Geoff,
Geoff, throw the rope.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
GEOFF: You ready?
Here it comes.
JESSE: Got it.
CYRIL: Okay, tow us.
JESSE: João, João,
watch your head!
Watch your head!
Keep holding on, I got you.
CYRIL: Hang on to the brush,
hang on to the brush.
Hang on.
All right.
Watch out, watch out, guys.
We're good,
we're good, we're good.
We're safe.
Damn. Almost sunk.
JESSE: Look at the
water in your boat.
CYRIL: Yeah, yeah.
I'm telling you.
We took a big wave.
CHRIS: Whoa!
CYRIL: One little bit of
water more and this thing
was going down right away.
I mean, once it
starts taking water, poof!
GEOFF: Man, it was clear
right after that last rock, if
we had just made it past that
one we would have been clear.
CYRIL: There was just way
too much weight on the front of
the boat, on the bow.
And it was like a step,
you know, like basically the
rapids would go like this.
So by putting too much weight,
we took some water in right
over the bow,
filled up the boat.
Just, you would have been,
I mean, had we taken just a
little bit more water,
this boat would have gone down
like right away.
And we would have been
swimming in those rapids and
lost everything.
You feel the adrenaline?
GEOFF: Yeah, I still feel it.
I've got, uh, I got
adrenaline all going through me
right now, for sure.
MANU: Yep.
JESSE: Scared me.
CYRIL: Good job, man.
JESSE: Yeah.
CYRIL: Thanks, bud.
GEOFF: You guys were
good man, you guys were
on the ball like, uh, the,
the craziness happened.
I like, looked up
and you're there.
CYRIL: And Chris you shot.
I think you were
rolling the whole time, right?
CHRIS: Whole time.
CYRIL: You never stopped?
CHRIS: Never stopped.
CYRIL: This guy
is a machine, man.
Good job, guys.
GEOFF: Thanks a lot, guys.
CYRIL: Let's
take a look at this.
JOÃO: There was water.
EDER: Yes! There was.
CYRIL: Water in the filter.
CYRIL: He wants to drive now.
NARRATOR: Though they haven't
sampled a massive piraiba yet,
and the rainforest is making
this journey as unpredictable
as it is dangerous, the guys
are learning to work as a team.
Somewhere up ahead might
just be the last giant piraiba.
And they'll need
to work together if
they want to help protect it.
CYRIL: It's good.
NARRATOR: Having
made it up the rapids,
Eder wants to
check the problem motor.
CYRIL: I think
that's a good spot here.
EDER: Yes, that's good spot.
NARRATOR: So they find a
good spot to put ashore.
CYRIL: That's a
spectacled caiman over there.
There must be a lot
of piranhas here because
they love it.
NARRATOR: While Eder and João
work on the engine, Cyril and
the crew go looking for a
spot to find a giant piraiba.
CYRIL: Hey, guys, over here,
I think this spot will work.
And if we don't
catch a piraiba here,
we should catch something.
It's a perfect spot.
Just below a set of rapids,
a big, deep pool, nice eddy.
Something should take this bait.
NARRATOR: Cyril aims for the
pool at the base of the rapids,
and the current
should carry the bait
to any predators that might
be in the neighborhood.
CYRIL: All right.
All we can do now is wait.
Oh, there's
something on the line.
(grunts).
CHRIS: What is it, do
you think it's a piraiba?
CYRIL: No, I
think it's a piranha.
What is that?
It doesn't move
like a piranha.
It's weird.
NARRATOR: Cyril suddenly
finds himself in a battle
with a mystery fish.
CYRIL: What is this?
What is this fish?
Moves really weird.
It's coming up,
it's coming up.
Just about to see
what this fish is.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, it's an
electric eel, electric eel.
No, get out of the water, guys
Get out of the water.
GEOFF: Out, everybody out.
Everybody out.
CYRIL: Get out, get out,
everybody out of the water.
CYRIL: Ah!
CHRIS: Cyril!