This week’s episode of Survivor Season 49 saw an unexpected medical emergency. Jake Latimer, one of this season’s contestants, suffered a snake bite on the beach. He recently opened up about the incident and mentioned how he thought he was “going to die.”
Let’s take a look at what Latimer had to say about this life-threatening experience.
Jake Latimer recalls the snake bite incident on Survivor 49 Week 3
36-year-old Jake Latimer, a correctional officer from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, was bitten by a snake on Season 49 of Survivor.
Latimer spoke about the details of the traumatic experience in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. A highly venomous banded sea krait bit him in the water near his tribe’s camp. The crew immediately transported him to the Survivor production base camp, where the medical staff treated him. They soon revealed that, fortunately, the snake had delivered just a “dry bite” and released no venom.
When asked to describe the incident, Latimer explained how he sat by the beach everyday, shutting his eyes and thinking about his wife and unborn child. Then he explained, “And I did that every single day that you don’t see on camera. And my eyes were shut, and it felt like a crab claw on the bottom of my foot, because we were getting bitten by crabs at nighttime, sleeping on the beach. I opened my eyes, and the snake is latched onto the bottom of my foot, mouth wide open.” As scary as it sounds, Latimer said the next thing he did was scream, “Guys, I think this thing just bit me!”
He then went on to describe his experience while he wore an oxygen mask, with the doctors attending to him on the stretcher. He said, “That has been the most scared I’ve ever been in my entire life. When you think that you’re dying, it’s a feeling that I’m never going to forget.”
Originally reported by Elton Fernandes on ComingSoon.net.
