It may not look like it, but it was an absolute battle,” Ausburn wrote. “I then kept fighting to keep her from pulling her head loose while kept her from wrapping me up. “Usually one of us would go for the head, but her head was a good 3-4 feet out in the water.”Ĭareful not to “spook” the snake by splashing too much, Ausburn secured her tail end while Pavlidis began “working for the head.” She “immediately turned back and anchored herself around a tree.” “I knew she had some size but it wasn’t until we walked to the waters edge did I realize how big,” said Ausburn in a separate post. The snake was partially out of the water by the time Pavlidis and Ausburn got close to her. However, nothing has come close to the 104-pound “beast” they found last week. I could go out every single night for the rest of my life and never see one this big again,” said the snake expert, who claims he’s brought in more than 400 snakes in just two years. “But more importantly, this is a once in a lifetime snake. One mistake, and I am for sure going to the hospital.” “Every python we catch can be potentially dangerous, but one this size? Lethal.
“I have never seen a snake anywhere near this size and my hands were shaking as I approached her,” Pavlidis wrote on Facebook. The effort to pull the creature out of “waist-deep water” in the dark took “every ounce of strength,” they said. Self-proclaimed “snakeaholics” Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis have tracked-down an 18.9-foot Burmese python, setting a new record in the Sunshine State over the previous one set by a serpent that was just one-tenth of a foot shorter.īoth members of Florida Fish and Wildlife’s Python Action Team, the two found the female snake slinking through the swampy Everglades region - and filmed the capture on October 2, just before midnight. Michigan high school gunman's parents had their own run-ins with law in Floridaįlorida just can’t stop over-the-topping itself. 'Very degrading' list of rules for Jeffrey Epstein's staff revealed in court Police shoot Florida Tech student armed with knifeġ950s-themed senior centers are providing comfort for people with Alzheimer's