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The terrifying moment a presenter was attacked by a crocodile has been revealed in a video.

Mark Evans was filming for Channel 4's Operation Maneater when a crocodile he was carrying lashed out with its head, splitting his lip open.

The force of the crocodile attack knocks Evans to the floor and draws blood, before the dangerous animal is safely placed in a pen.

Watch the video below (WARNING: Graphic content) 

TV presenter Mark Evans was attacked by a crocodile in Namibia (shown). It happened while filming for Channel 4's Operation Maneater show. In the video a crocodile is seen lashing out at Evans as it's carried to a pen. The force of the attack knocks Evans over and also splits his lip

The attack occurred during filming in Namibia for the first episode of Operation Maneater, which will be airing 8pm on Sunday 21 September on Channel 4 in the UK.

In the video Evans and his team are moving the crocodile from a truck into a pen.

It is covered with a blanket and its mouth is held shut with a restrainer.

As they carry it from the truck to the pen the crocodile lashes out at Evans, who falls over from the force of the attack.

The crocodile hits him directly on his mouth with its snout and its teeth rip open Evans' lip.

'Are you okay?' one of his colleagues asks.

'Yeah, no, I'm fine,' Evans replies. 'Just split my lip a bit.'

'You've still got your teeth?' asks his colleague.

'I think one might be a bit loose,' he says.

The moment Mark Evans is attacked by a crocodile

In the video he adds: 'So there is a lesson for you. At any moment, I was holding onto that jaw really tight, it was up at head level, and just one quick flick of its head and I just got a little bit of kind of blunt trauma from its nose on the side of my lip and its cut the whole of the inside of my lip up.

'That's what you get. Crocodiles are really dangerous animals. Even when they're little. It's not his fault.'

The attack occurred when Evans travelled to Namibia's Chobe River, a place that's known as a dangerous area for crocodile attacks.

Crocodiles in this area are growing in size and number, leading to an increase in attacks.

But each time there is an attack, the locals kill crocodiles in retaliation.

To find a way to keep both people and crocodiles safe, Evans joined leading crocodile experts Rom Whitaker and Dr Patrick Aust to carry out an experiment.

The idea is to train crocodiles to associate the sound of a bell with an electric shock. 

In the show Evans meets attack victims and puts the training experiment to the test, although with mixed results as evidenced by this attack.

Speaking about the crocodile attack after filming, Evans said: 'I was headbutted in the mouth by the croc's snout. 

'It's teeth (they stick out the side of its mouth when the mouth is closed) split my upper lip full thickness up towards my nose and pushed three teeth backwards.

'A front tooth is cracked and now thought to be dead. The tooth next to it is also cracked.'

Evans was knocked to the floor by the force of the attack (shown). The attack occurred when Evans travelled to Namibia's Chobe River, a place that's known as a dangerous area for crocodile attacks. Crocodiles in this area are growing in size and number, leading to an increase in attacks

With blood pouring out Evans explains how dangerous crocodiles are. He was taken to a hospital after the attack before returning to continue filming for the show. In this episode of the new series he was aiming to find a way to keep people and crocodiles safe from each other

He explains that he was taken to Johannesburg for assessment and surgery at one of its trauma hospitals. 

'The fear was that there might be damage to the bone in my upper jaw and infection,' he continued.

'Plus, if this kind of wound isn't cleaned and stitched properly straight away, it can take a huge amount of corrective intervention at a later stage to avoid serious disfigurement.'

He also explained how they had big problems getting out of the location because of storms and an electrical fault that kept his air ambulance grounded in Botswana.

Evans finally arrived at Johannesburg at three in the morning, and was under the knife of a plastic surgeon by lunchtime.

And 48 hours later he was back on a plane to Namibia and then continued filming for around three weeks with crocodiles and then elephants. 

Here the crocodile is seen being carried before the attack. People have been known to kill crocodiles in retaliation to their attacks. Evans was trying to find a way to stop crocodiles from attacking people. The first episode of Operation Maneater airs on Sunday 21 September at 8pm on Channel 4 in the UK

Evnas was taken to Johannesburg for assessment and surgery at one of its trauma hospitals after the attack. 'The fear was that there might be damage to the bone in my upper jaw and infection,' he said. He also explained how they had big problems getting out of the location because of storms and an electrical fault

'I could only suck food up through straw to start with,' Evans continues.

'But [my] front teeth have remained painful and loose for the last ten months. Further dental work is going to be needed when the time is right'

He also explains how in the ten months since the attack he hasn't been able to bite using his front teeth.

'The lip wound has healed well. And, very slowly, the teeth are getting there. 

'I was very lucky. If I had been a few inches closer, it could have been curtains.'