Overview
- The complaint, filed in Miami‑Dade Circuit Court this week, seeks more than $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages from Acun Medya entities, Acun Ilicali and the parent company of Skai TV.
- The suit says the May 11 spearfishing incident in the Dominican Republic left 22‑year‑old Stavros Floros with his left leg severed above the knee and serious injury to his right leg, and that he spent 61 days hospitalized in Miami after multiple surgeries.
- Floros alleges producers required contestants to fish in open ocean areas with heavy tourist boat traffic and provided no safety boats, marked zones, or warning buoys despite prior close calls and known risks.
- Court documents and witness statements say a tourist boat’s propellers struck both of Floros’s legs, his left leg was never recovered from the water, and a passenger’s tourniquet was the only immediate measure that kept him alive.
- AcunMedya has said the incident appears to have occurred outside competitive play and that port authorities are investigating, while Skai suspended Survivor Greece broadcasts; the case is at the complaint stage and could prompt wider scrutiny of safety practices for international reality productions.