A Survivor contestant is taking legal action and suing for $100million (£74m) after losing his leg in a traumatic incident while filming.

Stavros Floros took part in the Greek edition of the reality competition show, which places a group of people on a deserted island where they must fend for themselves and compete in challenges to avoid elimination.

Hoping to be crowned the Sole Survivor and take home a cash prize, Floros was 21 at the time of filming in the Dominican Republic.

During a spear-fishing accident, he was caught by a tour boat’s propeller, significantly injuring his right ankle and partially amputating his left leg.

His fellow contestant, Emmanouil Malliaros, noticed the boat carrying 20 tourists and allegedly yelled for Floros to move out of the way. Before he could, the vessel’s propeller ‘struck Floros’s legs’, and his left leg was never recovered from the water.

As per his filed lawsuit, Floros has claimed the conditions of filming in May resulted in his injuries, with documents obtained by E! News saying contestants were ‘required, incentivised, and expected’ to spearfish in open waters as a ‘core and mandatory element’ of the game show.

This is due to participants being given ‘minimal rationed food’ and being expected to source their own via ‘fishing and foraging’.

However, Floros claims that production ‘did not establish any marked, roped-off, buoyed, or otherwise protected safe zone’ for them to fish in but instead directed them to hunt in an area of the ocean ‘heavy’ with tourist boat traffic.

He adds that there was no way for contestants to ‘independently summon help’ due to their phones being taken away in accordance with the programme’s format.

This prevented them from ‘protecting themselves in the event of an emergency’, despite production’s ‘duty’ to ‘supervise, protect, and rescue’ the cast.

Floros further says that no ‘safety personnel, safety boats, spotters, or other measures’ were implemented, which may have warned them of approaching tour boats in the area.

His suit adds that TV bosses ‘knew, or in the exercise of reasonable care should have known, of the heavy and dangerous boat traffic in this area and of the risk it posed to cast members fishing and diving there, and nonetheless failed to take any corrective action’.

Despite the severity of Floros’s injuries, which led to him being transported to a Miami hospital, where he received treatment for 61 days, the show allegedly ‘did not stop’ production.

Producers are alleged to have continued ‘actively filming’ the show, while Floros ‘underwent multiple surgical procedures’, including the repair of his right ankle and surgical amputation of his left leg.

His legal filing accuses production of providing remaining cast members with cocaine and marijuana to ‘calm and settle’ them after the harrowing ordeal.

Source: Read the original article on metro.co.uk

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