OHMYGOSSIP — Ray Mears got “too close” to a “huge” crocodile who was “stalking” him for days whilst he was camping in Australia.
The ‘Extreme Survival’ star claims the killer reptile came “within arm’s reach” of him while he was in the outback Down Under.
Ray, 58, thought he’d be “alright” as he was armed with a machete knife but on reflection he knows this would not have protected him if the croc had decided to make a meal of him.
In an interview with the Metro newspaper’s ‘Sixty Seconds With’ featurette, he said: “I was camping on a beach in Australia and hadn’t recognised the signs that a crocodile had been stalking me for three days. It was huge – five metres – and nobody has survived being bitten by a crocodile four metres or larger. It went right past me – within arm’s reach – when I was under a mosquito net. That was too close. I reasoned that I’d be alright because I had a machete but I realise now that I wouldn’t have stood a chance.”
Ray urged the importance in situations like that to “control your emotions” as they can consume you and diminish your chances of staying alive.
He explained: “It’s important to control your emotions. If you are fearful, your body starts to produce adrenaline. If you don’t control adrenaline, it floods your system. So if there’s a lion in front of you, instead of seeing the escape route, all you actually see are the tips of their claws and teeth.”
Ray reminisced about how, in 2010, he used his rare “tracker” skills – that he has been honing for nearly 50 years – to find Raoul Moat, a man wanted by local police for killing one person and wounding two others via gunshot.
He said: “Northumbria Police asked me to help when they were trying to track Raoul Moat. He’d gone into hiding in the woods and the police couldn’t find him. I followed the signs and we think we were within 20 metres of him that day. I’m a tracker, so if something moves in nature I can very often follow it and locate it. It’s the oldest forensic skill in the world but it’s a very difficult skill. A lot of people pretend to be able to track and very few can. I’ve been doing it for nearly a half a century.”

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