Guiana: Sebastien Bascoules, 39, waded into a shallow river to retrieve the massive, deadly predator after it had snatched the pooch from the bank.
The maths teacher, who lives in Matoury, French Guiana, hauled the 175lb - 12-and-a-half-stone - reptile onto land in nearby Montsinery before blindfolding it with a T-shirt.