Dual Survival

Shipwrecked on an island in the South China Sea, castaways Grady and Josh demonstrate their resourcefulness by repurposing garbage on the beach to desalinate water, construct shelter, hunt for food, and ultimately signal for rescue.

Grady and Josh face a whiteout blizzard, freezing temperatures and a run-in with a deadly predator on the slopes of Bulgaria's Rila Mountains.

Grady and Josh slash their way through the Nicaraguan jungle battling snakes, mosquitoes and dehydration. They struggle to start a fire using a soil testing kit, go on a nighttime hunt for caiman and build a raft to cross croc-infested waters.

Trapped in the jagged canyons of Croatia's Velebit Mountain, new partners Grady and Josh must work together to navigate the frigid, fast-moving rapids, and descend treacherous waterfalls in order to find salvation in this remote landscape.

In the cold and snow of the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, Bill and Grady begin their survival on a mountain ridge and make their way to a forested area where they discover a dilapidated cabin. After spending the night there, they navigate to a river, deal with hypothermic conditions after Grady partially breaks through the ice, and attempt to trap beaver.

In the Namib Desert of southern Africa, Grady and Bill are left with a broken down car. They use the car to help them with survival tasks, catch and eat scorpions, create signals for rescue, and search for water and food in a nearby canyon.

While stranded in the Zambezi River Basin, Grady and Bill attempt survival during Africa's dry season, on their trek to the Zambezi River. Along the way, they search for water, build a primitive fire, encounter a myriad of African wildlife and predators, and hunt for guinea fowl.

In the Amazon rainforest, Bill and Grady must navigate through dense jungle, and build a shelter from the rains. They navigate to a river, attempt to catch fish, and build a raft to try to reach civilization.

Continuing in the Chilean Andes, Grady and Bill must survive a cold night in the rainforest. On their journey out they hunt feral pigs, build a shelter, and attempt to build a fire again.

In the Chilean Andes, Grady and Bill start their survival mission high up on a snowy dormant volcano. They must get off the volcano, find shelter in caves, and trek down into the rainforest. Along the way, they search for food, and attempt to build a fire.

Matt and Joe are marooned on a rocky coast in the Pacific Northwest. They must decide whether to hunker down or travel deeper into one of the darkest, wettest forest in the United States.

Off the beaten path and waterlogged in the rainforest of Costa Rica, Matt and Joe battle torrential rains, deadly insects, and raging rapids. After missing a shot at rescue, they combine survival ingenuity with indigenous skills to get out alive.

Joe and Matt cross a volcanic island covered with jungle and water-filled canyons, where setbacks fuel a rift.

While on a tropical volcano, Matt and Joe must navigate toward the coast through rainforest, steep-walled gorges and waterfalls.

While stranded in a black water swamp in southern Georgia, Joe and Matt find themselves in alligator territory.

While marooned on a barren island, Matt and Joe risk a swim in shark-infested waters and fight for life-sustaining basics.

Matt and Joe start at the site of a plane crash on an uninhabited tropical island, and face long-term survival.

Joe and Matt travel through the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, contending with freezing rain, steep ravines and bears.

Joe and Matt attempt to survive in the harsh terrain of southern Utah without knives or modern supplies.

Teti and Matt Graham in their first episode together in Panama

The episode features footage from previous episodes, behind the scenes materials, and crew interviews.

Teti and Lundin are in Norway. This is their final episode together.

Teti and Lundin are in the desert and mountains of Oman.

Teti and Lundin are in the jungle of Sri Lanka.

Teti and Lundin are in a mangrove swamp in Sri Lanka.

Isolated beneath the mountains of Romania, lost in a labyrinth of underground caves, Cody and Joe fight to escape the pitch black darkness with dying headlamps. Their teamwork is further strained by their opposing survival philosophies.

Stranded in the middle of Zambia's hot, wild plains, Joe and Cody must avoid territorial hippos and herds of elephants to find water and shelter. An argument over whether to sleep inside a bat-infested hollow tree threatens to break the team apart.

Tempers get hot when survival tactics collide as Joe and Cody struggle to escape the Nicaraguan jungle. The men are stranded at the top of a steep, muddy volcano, and Cody takes on the role of a hiker suffering an immobilizing knee injury.

Stranded in the South African bush and in close proximity to the planet's deadliest predators including lions and leopards, Joe and Cody fight to get out alive while hiding from poachers who may be hunting them.

Isolated in the jungle of an uninhabited Hawaiian island, Joe and Cody lock heads over priorities. Cody battles the dangers of dehydration searching for water and fire-making tools, while Joe gears up for mortal combat with aggressive feral boars.

Deep in New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert, Joe struggles to get out of an abandoned mineshaft. A deadly western diamondback rattlesnake becomes dinner, and a maggot-infested cow carcass puts the team's opposing survival tactics to the test.

Stranded in the South African bush and in close proximity to the planet's deadliest predators including lions and leopards, Joe and Cody fight to get out alive while hiding from poachers who may be hunting them.

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest place on Earth, and it's landscape is so barren and unique that NASA uses it as a testing ground for it's Martian rovers. It is here that Cody Lundin and Joe Teti are put to the ultimate desert survival test. In this scenario, they take on the plight of a downed paraglider pilot who has crash landed on a mountain peak over 14,000 feet above sea level. Facing acute altitude sickness, and with limited water and resources, they must strip the paraglider for all it's worth and head out in search of civilization and re-hydration.

Our intrepid duo 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, even Dave goes barefoot.

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.

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

Cody and Dave take on the scenario of two ranchers, stranded on the Northern Great Plains in Montana during 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

Cody and Dave are dropped in the Highland jungle of Thailand that has few tools for survival but lots of things that like to bite

Dave and Cody head into the Everglades to take on the role of airboaters 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.

David and Cody show how to survive the harsh Rocky Mountains.

How lost hunters can survive in the harsh conditions of Tierra Del Fuego, how to survive and extreme injury.

Survival experts 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.

Dave and Cody take on a lost hiker scenario in the sweltering jungles of Laos

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.

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. The survival rules that work above ground, like following a river downstream, don't apply in the labyrinth of underground caves. Instead, they must make their way upstream in a trek that puts Cody's barefoot philosophy to the ultimate test. Once they emerge, the situation goes from bad to worse — they find themselves surrounded by dense jungle, a web of vines and thorn ravaged terrain... and snakes.

Next, 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 on a course set by Canterbury, an experienced climber. To find food, Lundin uses his knowledge of local cultures to tap the dietary wisdom of New Zealand's indigenous Maori.

In this survival scenario, hosts 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 doesn't give in on his indigenous survival strategy, where he lives his life barefoot. Here, he's only wearing shorts and wool socks. The only items they have are those they're 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 arsenal of skills to find shelter, build a fire and find food and water, all in sub-zero conditions.

This special episode takes an inside look at Dual Survival Season 3, and introduces a brand new partner for Cody Lundin, Special Operations veteran Joseph Teti. Joe is a combat-tested, special ops warrior who has survived countless high risk missions behind enemy lines in Afghanistan and Iraq, and will give a new perspective on looking fear in the face and getting out alive! With the addition of an elite warrior like Joe Teti, season three promises to bring high intensity changes to Dual Survival. Joe is a former force recon Marine, Army special forces Green Beret, and a former operative in one of the most top secret government counter-terrorism units in the world. This special episode will show you never before seen footage of Cody and Joe’s first shoot together. Watch as two guys with two different philosophies take the art of survival to new heights. See previews of the bigger challenges and new extreme locations that Cody and Joe will face, including Chile’s Atacama Desert, known as “Mars On Earth”, Hawaii’s uninhabited islands, New Mexico’s vast and unforgiving Chihuahuan desert, Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest, and the twin volcanic peaks of Nicaragua’s Ometepe Island, which reach a mile high into the clouds and play host to some of the harshest jungle terrain known to man. Also get a behind the scenes look at survival skills instructor Cody Lundin’s home, and his famous bare feet. On a wide stretch of land in the high desert of Northern Arizona, Cody lives completely off the grid in a self-designed, self-reliant passive solar Earth home. Whether it’s making fire, finding water, or building a shelter, Cody’s message of survival is clear: respect nature, don’t panic, and use your head.