A Greek Survivor contestant was seriously injured in the Dominican Republic after a tourist boat struck him while he was spearfishing outside the reality show’s competition process. The broadcaster said the television broadcast of the specific program is being suspended until the causes of the incident are fully investigated.

Acun Media said the accident happened away from the game itself, and the production team immediately moved to help and arrange a rapid transfer to hospital. Local coast guard authorities opened an investigation, while doctors in a Dominican Republic hospital were monitoring the contestant, who was later reported in serious but stable condition and out of danger.

The contestant was identified by his father as Stavros Floros, who said the injuries were severe. “The situation was serious. One leg was partially amputated and the other leg has a severe ankle injury,” he said. He added that his son was spearfishing when a boat with two outboard engines passed by, that a buoy was with him, and that the propellers hit both his son and the buoy.

Floros’s father said his son lost a great deal of blood and that it took about 40 minutes to get him to the hospital, where he lost even more blood on the way. “The fact that he survived is a miracle,” he said. A fellow contestant witnessed the accident unfold and suffered a nervous breakdown, underscoring how abruptly the episode moved from routine off-camera activity to a medical emergency that left the production team in shock.

The suspension now puts the show on hold while investigators determine how the boat came to strike a contestant in open water. The key question is no longer whether the injury was real; it is how a day away from the competition process turned into a life-threatening accident in waters where others were also nearby.