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Man vs. Wild Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2008 - 2009
Episode 1
Baja Desert
Wed, Aug 6, 200844 mins
Bear Grylls is in Baja, Mexico. He tackles overwhelming odds to survive the challenges of the desert. The biggest threat to his survival comes from a bee sting that swells his eyes closed. Half blinded he battles a deadly diamond-back rattlesnake.
Episode 2
The Deep South
Wed, Aug 13, 200844 mins
Bear Grylls tackles the deadly swamps of the Deep South. He dodges alligator attacks, tangles with venomous snakes and uses his ingenuity to hook a catfish with his bare hands. He also follows the trail of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 3
Ireland
Wed, Sep 3, 200844 mins
English survival star Bear Grylls is dropped by helicopter, as befits a marines veteran, offshore a desolate coastal part of the land of his Irish ancestors. After climbing the rocky cliffs, he must live on the grim, hardly fertile land. Scarse vegetation provides little cover from wind and precipitation while gathering a meager meal, but he manages to catch and skin a sheep, a nutritious mega-boon. Lacking building material for another shelter, he opts for a small cave, but it proves leaky, so his fire is drowned. Luckily he had roughly prepared the sheep skin as a sleeping bag. It even serves a floating raft when he has to cross a near-icy lake, near-naked to keep his cloths dry during a frozen swim.
Episode 4
South Dakota
Wed, Sep 10, 200844 mins
Bear tackles not one but three nasty environments; the Black Hills, the Bad Lands and the Great Plains.
Episode 5
Bear's Essentials
Wed, Sep 17, 200843 mins
A clip-show from previous "Man vs. Wild" episodes, highlighting important survival techniques.
Episode 6
Belize
Sat, Jan 12, 200844 mins
Despite his warnings about safety Bear takes some questionable risks in the Belize rain forest. He swings on a vine over a gorge, crosses a narrow log bridge above raging river rapids near a convergence of waterfalls and confronts a boa constrictor. But Bear finally builds a raft that doesn't sink.
Episode 7
Yukon
Mon, Jan 19, 200944 mins
An Air Rescue helicopter drops Bear onto a frozen plateau in ? Canada's most desolate Yukon territory. He works his way down icy slopes and a glacier, nearly trapped in moving ice cave crevasses, painfully working down a whippy tree. He spends the night in a 'barricaded' bear cave, with a fire to eat the trout he caught in a beaver dam lake. Bear nearly crashes to his end from slippery log, has more then his share of rapids and finds shelter in an abandoned wolverine hunters-cabin. Reaching the coast, he improvises a raft, which proves mysteriously leaky; and reaches a melting iceberg-offshoot, making a signal fire to attract a passing ship which he must hop onto most dangerously.
Episode 8
Oregon
Mon, Jan 26, 200944 mins
Deep in the Oregon wilderness, Bear takes on Hells Canyon -- the deepest river canyon in the world. Huge snowdrifts, frozen lakes, burnt out forests, 150 foot cliffs and the frigid white water rapids of the Snake River stand between him and civilization.
Episode 9
Dominican Republic
Mon, Feb 2, 200944 mins
Anxiously, Bear swims for his life after diving from a helicopter in the sharks-infested around an uninhabited island offshore the Dominican republic (half of Hispaniola island). He finds it too barren even for his survival expertise, given the lack of potable water. So he constructs a seaworthy raft to reach the main island 5 miles across Caribbean water. Landing starts hard due to the coast being a saline mangroves forest, infested with aggressive mosquitoes like the sloping coast. Next an arid, scotching wilderness, as hard and exhausting to work his way trough, full of sharp cacti, thorns and poisonous wildlife like a giant centipede. Finally reaching a stream, he catches edible (if cooked) shrimp and backtracks the flow to a steep canyon with wild rapids, requiring him to use vines to climb down. Enjoying a dream meal having branch-throw-killed wild fowl he must built a shelter for the heavy rain in a hammock suspended under a steep slope. A wandered-by tarantula becomes his breakfast, before vines allow him to climb up and continue to habitable pasture land.
Episode 10
Turkey
Mon, Feb 9, 200944 mins
Parachuting into the mountains of Turkey, Bear doesn't like the looks of his landing site so he decides to risk drowning in a lake instead. He builds another of his rafts that is more submarine than boat and a rope ladder that is too short for the job. Then it's time to look for food and water.
Episode 11
Romania
Mon, Feb 16, 200944 mins
Bear is a bit shaken by an encounter with a brown bear in the Carpathian Mountains. So he constructs an alarm system to warn him should a bear wander into his camp while he sleeps. After that even an underwater swim through a cave tunnel doesn't phase him.
Episode 12
Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide: Part One
Mon, Feb 23, 200946 mins
From falling into the ice of Siberia, to battling sharks to make it off a desert island in Indonesia and skinning and eating snakes in the mangroves of Panama, Bear offers you a guide to survival for the most dangerous of places.
Episode 99
Man vs. Wild: The Will Ferrell Special
Tue, Jun 2, 200945 mins
Will Farrell suffers along with Bear in the bitter cold of the arctic and participates in Bear's crazy dangerous time saving methods and exotic cuisine.