Dual Survival
Two people with drastically different backgrounds and survival strategies take on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain to demonstrate how the right skills and creative thinking can keep you alive in the most dangerous situations.
- 2010-2016
- 9 seasons
- Discovery Channel
- Action & Adventure, Game Show, Reality
- TV-14
Two people with drastically different backgrounds and survival strategies take on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain to demonstrate how the right skills and creative thinking can keep you alive in the most dangerous situations.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2010
Episode 1
Shipwrecked
Fri, Jun 11, 2010 44 mins
Cody and Dave must use items they salvage from their life raft to find shelter, build a fire and find food and water when they arrive on a deserted island off the coast of Nova Scotia in the dead of winter - showing what it takes to survive.
Episode 2
Failed Ascent
Fri, Jun 18, 2010 44 mins
In this scenario, Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin take on a mountaineer's worst nightmare: stranded on top of a mountain in New Zealand with limited supplies. Together they battle glacial peaks and deep rocky canyons to show what it takes to survive.
Episode 3
Out of Air
Fri, Jun 25, 2010 44 mins
Each year, an average of 20 people drown while cave diving. For this survival scenario, survival experts 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.
Episode 4
Desert Breakdown
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 44 mins
Survival experts Dave and Cody head to Peru's "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 a lava-scorched land with few survival resources.
Episode 5
Panic in the Jungle
Fri, Jul 9, 2010 43 mins
Dave and Cody take on a lost hiker scenario in the sweltering jungles of Laos. The items given to them for their journey include typical (or not so typical!) items a backpacker might carry: a 35 mm camera, condoms and a pack of cigarettes.
Episode 6
Swamped
Fri, Jul 16, 2010 44 mins
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.
Episode 7
Split Up
Fri, Jul 23, 2010 44 mins
Our survival duo take on a nightmarish scenario: stranded, miles apart, in Arizona. Their mission: trek through the tough terrain to find each other and then together make their way to civilization. Dave begins his journey at 8,000 feet above sea level in the Ponderosa Pine forest. Further south, Cody sets out in a totally different ecosystem: the high desert scrub country that he calls home.
Episode 8
Soaked
Fri, Jul 30, 2010 44 mins
For two boat-wrecked hunters, surviving in the Pacific Northwest rainforest takes keen navigation skills and the know-how to avoid hypothermia and signal for rescue. Dave and Cody take on this nightmare scenario and show what it takes to survive.
Episode 9
After the Storm
Fri, Aug 13, 2010 44 mins
In a hurricane's aftermath, Cody and Dave find their most valuable survival resources in the trash covering the beaches. But their journey to the Dominican Republic's coast is filled with creatures that sting, and Dave ignores Cody's advice about hunting the deadliest of them all.
Episode 10
Bogged Down
Fri, Aug 20, 2010 44 mins
Deep inside Brazil's Pantanal, the largest swamp wetland in the world, Cody and Dave wade through piranha-infested waters in search of civilization. Their best bet for rescue is a river but Cody's plan on how to travel on it could sink them both.
