He commented: “We had a day of sorting ourselves out and we all met on the beach, and Hammond suggested snorkelling.”
The father-of-two took himself off to a “little hut” to get flippers and snorkels, before returning to his companions.
Jeremy continued: “He came back and he said, ‘My French is really coming along, I’ve just had a long conversation with the man in the hut in French.’
“We then went swimming and snorkelling and when we got back, we were told that the day before, a man had been eaten by a shark.”