THIS daft Territory grandad would do anything for love — including swimming dangerously close to a baited crocodile trap.

The septuagenarian told the NT News he asked his wife to take the photograph to impress his 14 grandchildren.

“The idea was to send it back to the grandkids so they could think ‘wow look at Grandpa’,” he said.

Unfortunately, the younger generation wasn’t so impressed by his lunatic antics.

“I think they thought ‘how silly is old Grandpa; he’s lost it’.”

The daredevil dill, who wanted to keep his identity under wraps, said he faced some nervy moments while he posed for the picture.

“I said to my wife: ‘would you hurry up and press the so-and-so button’, because she was taking her time,” he said.

But he said he didn’t believe he was in mortal danger. He said other people had been swimming in the undisclosed location shortly before the picture was taken, though he admitted to becoming slightly more reckless with his life in his old age.

“I had a really good look around for crocodiles before hand,” he said.

“My grandchildren didn’t think it was brave or courageous, they just thought ‘Grandpa’s lost his mind’.”

Interfering with a crocodile trap can earn you a $70,000 fine, six months imprisonment or an extremely gruesome death.

There have been 243 saltwater crocodiles captured in the NT this year.