Experts agree there are some very basic and universal rules for surviving in the wild. Find shelter, find water, find food, and find help. Beyond that, there's not much they agree on.
Survival experts Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin are back again taking on some of the planet's most unforgiving terrain to demonstrate, in their own way, how the right skills and some creative thinking can keep you alive. The pair are dropped into scenarios that could happen to anyone: marooned boaters, lost hikers, stranded mountain climbers. In the ultimate test of skill, perseverance and creativity, military-trained Canterbury and naturalist Lundin battle the elements – and sometimes each other – on Discovery Channel’s Dual Survival.
Tune in to the new Season of Dual Survival every night at 10 PM on Discovery Channel.
Dave Canterbury joined the U S Army at age 17, eventually becoming a Special Reaction Team (SRT) instructor and sniper. He trained soldiers in the U.S., Central America and Korea in unarmed combat and close-quarter techniques. Cody Lundin, a 20-year survival veteran and best-selling author, honed his skills living in the desert with very little tools, equipment or assistance. He spent two years living in a brush shelter in the woods where he slept on pine needles and cooked over an open fire.
In the new season of Dual Survival, Dave and Cody are faced with more survival scenarios that push them to their limits. The duo must draw upon their personal arsenal of skills to devise extraordinary, MacGvyer-like ways to survive. From swamps to avalanches and sweltering heat to sub-zero temperatures, Dave and Cody will show what it takes to survive in some of the planet’s most unforgiving terrain, including the Florida Everglades, made up of 4,000 miles of cypress swamp; the scorching deserts of Baja, Mexico; Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina – less than 500 miles from Antarctica; the wet cloud forests of Panama, 7,000 feet in the air; and Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains in the dead of winter.
How will they use a plastic bag, lip balm and a parachute cord while trenching through waist-deep snow in the Rocky Mountains? What good is a broken cell phone, steel wool and elephant dung in the jungles of Thailand? Find out in Dual Survival.
Top 10 Tools for a Survival Scenario
Find out what top 10 survival tools you should have before you venture out into the wild.
Water Treatment - Be sure to pack water purifier tablets or solutions -- you should always be prepared to purify water in survival situations. Humans can only live a few days without it, and that's in ideal temperatures and conditions. You can live without food for up to a few weeks as long as you have water. Pack some water purifier tablets, generally made of iodine or chlorine compounds.
Compass - Compasses use a magnetized pointer in concert with Earth's magnetic field to calculate direction. If you have a compass on hand and know how to use it, you can use a map of the area to go wherever you need. If you don't have a map, the compass will still get you going in the right direction.
Fire Starter - Learn how to prepare a kit to get a fire going anywhere. A fire provides warmth in the cold, heat to cook food and purify water, and a potential rescue signal.
First Aid Kit - What will you need to pack in your first aid kit? What to pack? Start with a nice supply of medications -- some wound cleaner, antibiotic ointment, alcohol, pain reliever, antacid, aspirin and antihistamine. Throw in some tweezers, gauze, bandages and eye wash. If you have particular needs, like allergies or diabetes, be sure to keep emergency supplies in your kit. Pack some hydrocortisone cream for rashes and burn ointment in case you get too close to the fire.
Mirror - A mirror? It's not about vanity. Some mirrors are specially suited for signaling rescue and include sighting holes that allow you to more accurately aim the reflection. Even a small 2- by 3-inch mirror flash can be seen during the daytime from about 100 miles away. They work best in good sunlight, but they also work on overcast days and can reflect headlights, flashlight beams and even bright moonlight.
Rope - It's surprising how useful good rope can be. This essential tool will always surprise you with how many ways it can be used, including securing equipment, making traps and shelter construction.
Survival Blanket - A survival blanket can help prevent hypothermia and keep you cozy while you're alone in the wild. Lying unprotected on the ground also exposes you to heat-sapping moisture and all types of unsympathetic creatures. Whatever you choose, it should be both thermally reflective to conserve body heat and light reflective to double as a visual location tool.
Multi-tool – "Swiss Army knife" comes to mind when you think of multi-tool.
Lighting - Most of us don't have the courage or skill to give up most of our vision for long spells of darkness and, besides, it's always a plus to have a mobile light source if you need to venture out into the night. A good mobile source of light makes a big difference in any survival situation. Portable light by taking advantage of high-efficiency LED lights that provide nearly equivalent illumination for much longer stretches with lighter batteries
Survival Knife - When choosing your knife, go with one that includes a blade that is 4 to 6 inches long, 5/32 to 8/32 inches thick, and made of high carbon or stainless steel.
Episode Descriptions
Stuck in the Muck
Cody and Dave head into the Everglades to take on the role of air boaters stuck in a sawgrass prairie marsh under the blazing Florida sun. They must seek shelter in a nearby swamp where water moccasin, python and alligators lay in wait. They soon find that even with over 4,000 square miles of cypress swamp the biggest challenge is to make enough drinking water to fend off dehydration.
Eating Dust
From the barren salt flats to the vast desert woodland, Dave and Cody battle the elements in the sun scorched desert of Baja, Mexico. With few supplies, they each demonstrate how to make use of an unlikely resource - urine.
Slash and Burn
Dave and Cody show how lost hunters can survive in the harsh conditions of Tierra Del Fuego, just 500 miles from Antarctica. To demonstrate how to survive an extreme injury, Dave self-inflicts a laceration and uses black powder to cauterize the wound.
Out of the Clouds
Dave and Cody take on the role of biologists lost in the wet cloud forests of Panama 7,000 feet above sea level with only a poncho, specimen jar and a broken lighter to aid in their quest for civilization.
Buried Alive
Armed with what’s left of an avalanche victim’s gear, Dave and Cody show how to survive in the harsh Rocky Mountains. Facing sub-zero temperatures, they make their way down a jagged ice waterfall, build a snow cave and try to salvage a dead elk carcass.
Frozen Plains
Dave and Cody take on the scenario of two ranchers, stranded on the windy plains in the dead of winter. Their only survival supplies are the charred remains of a burned-down shack: an axe head, a bison hide, a glass jar, a metal tin and a steel striker.
Adrift
Dave and Cody take on the survival scenario of two castaways adrift at sea and show how to survive being stranded on a deserted jungle island in the South Pacific. This time, Dave goes barefoot.
Bitten
Dave and Cody show how to survive the rugged jungle in Thailand using only the gear an ill-equipped eco-tourist might carry for a day trek: a Thai jungle knife, steel wool, a sharpening stone, a damaged cell phone and a bag of tobacco.
Out of Africa
Cody and Dave take on a survival scenario in South Africa's backcountry where dehydration kills in hours and hungry super-predators kill even faster. Armed with nothing but a machete, they show how to escape the bush without getting eaten alive.
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