Series synopsis
Dual Survival is an American reality action & adventure television series that premiered on Discovery on June 11, 2010. It ended on October 12, 2016. It stars Cody Lundin, Dave Canterbury, Joseph Teti and Grady Powell.
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.
Premise
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.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Cody Lundin as Himself
- Dave Canterbury as Himself
- Joseph Teti as Himself
- Grady Powell as Himself
- Jeff Zausch as Himself
- EJ Snyder as Himself
- Matt Graham as Himself
- Josh James as Himself
Supporting cast
- Bill McConnell as Himself
Episodes
This series spans 10 seasons with 89 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 5 | January 1, 2013 | August 3, 2016 |
| Season 1 | 10 | June 11, 2010 | August 20, 2010 |
| Season 2 | 12 | April 22, 2011 | July 1, 2011 |
| Season 3 | 11 | January 1, 2013 | March 12, 2013 |
| Season 4 | 10 | April 23, 2014 | June 25, 2014 |
| Season 5 | 13 | January 21, 2015 | April 22, 2015 |
| Season 6 | 4 | September 30, 2015 | October 21, 2015 |
| Season 7 | 10 | January 13, 2016 | March 16, 2016 |
| Season 8 | 7 | June 15, 2016 | August 3, 2016 |
| Season 9 | 7 | August 24, 2016 | October 12, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Unbraided 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. |
January 1, 2013 |
| 2 |
Untamed: Nicaragua Go off the grid with bonus footage, production facts and tweets. 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. |
February 12, 2013 |
| 3 | Untamed: Zambia | February 19, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Shipwrecked 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. |
June 11, 2010 |
| 2 |
Failed Ascent 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. |
June 18, 2010 |
| 3 |
Out of Air 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. |
June 25, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Slash and Burn How lost hunters can survive in the harsh conditions of Tierra Del Fuego, how to survive and extreme injury. |
April 22, 2011 |
| 2 |
Buried Alive David and Cody show how to survive the harsh Rocky Mountains. |
April 29, 2011 |
| 3 |
Stuck in the Muck 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. |
May 6, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Mars on Earth 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. |
January 1, 2013 |
| 2 |
On the Menu 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. |
January 8, 2013 |
| 3 |
Into the Frying Pan 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. |
January 15, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
No End in Sight (1) Teti and Lundin are in a mangrove swamp in Sri Lanka. |
April 23, 2014 |
| 2 |
No End in Sight (2) Teti and Lundin are in the jungle of Sri Lanka. |
April 30, 2014 |
| 3 |
Deadly Dunes Teti and Lundin are in the desert and mountains of Oman. |
May 7, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Into the Canyons Joe and Matt attempt to survive in the harsh terrain of southern Utah without knives or modern supplies. |
January 21, 2015 |
| 2 |
Grin and Bear It Joe and Matt travel through the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, contending with freezing rain, steep ravines and bears. |
January 28, 2015 |
| 3 |
Downed and Out (1) Matt and Joe start at the site of a plane crash on an uninhabited tropical island, and face long-term survival. |
February 4, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Nautical Nightmare Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, Matt and Joe are caught in open water, where a nightmare scenario of a sunken ship is made worse by prowling sharks, razor sharp coral, unpredictable weather and false hope for rescue. |
September 30, 2015 |
| 2 |
Fractured Journey Matt and Joe take on one of the most common and deadly scenarios in the wilderness: an injury that requires medical intervention. Caught in a thick jungle, this worst-case becomes a test of will in the struggle to get out alive. |
October 6, 2015 |
| 3 |
Escape and Evade Joe and Matt take on an escape and evasion scenario on the border between Texas and Mexico. Here they confront the dangers of the wilderness without their knives, including being restrained with zip-ties, traveling solo and evading pursuit. |
October 14, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Fire and Ice 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. |
January 13, 2016 |
| 2 |
Long Way Home 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. |
January 20, 2016 |
| 3 |
Take Me to the River 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. |
January 27, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Croatian Castaway 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. |
June 15, 2016 |
| 2 |
Mosquito Coast 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. |
June 22, 2016 |
| 3 |
Bulgarian Blizzard 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. |
July 5, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Battle of Brazil Stranded in the scorching hot savannas of Southern Brazil, Naked and Afraid fan favorites EJ Snyder and Jeff Zausch must find a way to survive this bone-dry environment without water or food and navigate back to civilization. |
August 24, 2016 |
| 2 |
Forest From Hell Lost in a mile-high Araucaria forest of South America, Army Combat Veteran EJ Snyder and Wilderness Survivalist Jeff Zausch must brave venomous pit vipers, fight a wild boar and survive the treacherous terrain in their search for rescue. |
August 31, 2016 |
| 3 |
Dying of Thirst EJ & Jeff brave the blazing high desert heat of eastern Utah. Their quest for water & rescue forces them to descend a sheer canyon wall, climb the face of a steep mesa and endure a hellish journey through one of the deadliest deserts in the country. |
September 14, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Discovery |
|---|---|
| First aired | June 11, 2010 |
| Last aired | October 12, 2016 |
| Runtime | 45 minutes |
| Status | canceled |
| Schedule | Wednesday at 21:00:00 |