Dual Survival
Premieres: Southeast Asia on Nov 1 at 9:00 pm; Australasia on Oct 20 at 9:30 pm
FOLLOW TWO SURVIVAL EXPERTS AS THEY PUT THEIR SKILLS TO THE TEST ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S DUAL SURVIVOR
- Two specialists, two different skill sets, one scenario -
Experts agree that there are some very basic - and universal - rules for surviving in the wild. Find shelter, find water, find food, find help. Beyond that, there is not much they agree on. Meet two skilled experts, military-trained Dave Canterbury and naturalist Cody Lundin, both of whom have very different methods of meeting survival challenges. Can they survive together? Or will the need to exert their survival habits lead them to further catastrophe or worse - cost them their lives?
Cody Lundin is a 20-year survival veteran and best-selling author who honed his skills living in the desert with very little tools, equipment, or assistance. Today, Cody lives off the grid in a self-designed solar earth home in the wilderness of northern Arizona and has been going barefoot for more than 20 years as part of his indigenous survival strategy. Dave Canterbury joined the U.S. Army at age 17, eventually becoming a Special Reaction Team (SRT) instructor and sniper. During his time in the military, Dave trained soldiers in the U.S., Central America and Korea in unarmed combat and close-quarter techniques.
Together in DUAL SURVIVAL, with their drastically different backgrounds, the pair are dropped into scenarios that could happen to anyone: marooned sailors, lost hikers, trapped divers, and stranded mountain climbers. Equipped with minimal gear, Cody and Dave must draw upon their arsenal of skills to devise extraordinary ways to use what they can find in their surroundings to demonstrate what it takes to stay alive.
DUAL SURVIVAL episode descriptions:
Shipwrecked
Cody and Dave find themselves on a deserted island off the coast of Nova Scotia in the dead of winter with plummeting temperatures. Despite the freezing temperatures and his partner's objections, Cody does not give in on his indigenous survival strategy where he lives his life barefoot. The only items they have are those they are able to salvage from the life raft they used to reach the island: an emergency Mylar blanket, a plastic tarp, two knives and a single rescue flare. They must use these items and their skills to find shelter, build a fire, and find food and water in sub-zero conditions.
Failed Ascent
Our survival experts take on a mountaineer's worst nightmare. They are left stranded on top of a mountain in New Zealand with limited supplies that would be carried by a climber: rope, crampons, an ice axe and other climbing gear. Working together, they battle 8,000-foot glacial peaks, deadly crevasses and deep rocky canyons as they trek down the mountain. To find food, Cory uses his knowledge of local cultures to tap the dietary wisdom of New Zealand's indigenous Maori.
Out of Air
Cody and Dave are lost divers who are fortunate to find air, but they are deep inside a maze of caves in Belize. Equipped with only their dive gear - mask, fins, wetsuit, buoyancy compensator and flashlights - they must find their way out and to safety. The survival rules that work above ground do not apply in the labyrinth of underground caves. Once they emerge, the situation goes from bad to worse; Cody and Dave find themselves surrounded by dense jungle, a web of vines and thorn-ravaged terrain... and snakes.
Desert Breakdown
Cody and Dave head into Peru's infamous Valley of the Volcanoes to take on the ultimate lost-in-the-desert survival scenario - a broken-down car miles from civilization, in the middle of an almost barren lava-scorched landscape. Here, Dave and Cody take on two roles to show how to survive this desolate location: Dave stays with the vehicle and signals for rescue while Cody heads out in search of water. But first, Dave and Cody strip the car for everything it's worth, salvaging the battery, headlights, electrical wiring, tires and seat cushions. They fight volcanic rock, heat exhaustion, altitude sickness, dehydration, rodents, and a debilitating illness that literally brings Cody to his knees.
Panic in the Jungle
Dave and Cody tackle a lost hiker scenario in the sweltering jungles of Laos. For their journey, the only "tools" they have are items a backpacker might carry: a 35 mm camera, condoms and a pack of cigarettes. They bushwhack their way through dense terrain, but the survival experts find themselves at odds over the best way to hydrate themselves. Dave drinks from a creek he believes to be safe from parasites, while Cody relies on hydration from the stalks of wild banana palm. The two eventually come to a wide river they believe is the way to help; but to travel the river, they must first join forces to lash together a homemade raft with bamboo and Lao vines.
Swamped
Cody and Dave head to the heart of the Louisiana bayou to take on a potentially deadly scenario: lost in a 1,000 square mile labyrinth of water channels and bogs, home to 1.5 million alligators and six species of poisonous snakes including Water Moccasins. To make it out, the two-man team are equipped only with what a lost boater might have, including a knife, flashlight, backpack, cords and the most valuable asset of all - the boat itself. In a swamp filled with predators, the vessel will create a vital barrier during the escape. But without enough gasoline to run the motor, Dave and Cody must improvise.
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