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Season 1

  • S01E01 Back From the Dead

    • March 1, 2020
    • National Geographic

    Dramatic real-life footage is captured by the rescuers themselves. A kayaker in New Zealand fights to save his drowning friend.

  • S01E02 Disaster Strikes

    • March 8, 2020
    • National Geographic

    Dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves. A caver tries to save his friend trapped in a flooding passage.

  • S01E03 Bleeding Out

    • March 15, 2020
    • National Geographic

    A freak accident severs a professional cyclist’s artery miles from medical help, a kayaker fights to rescue his friend who’s trapped upside down in white water rapids, and a backcountry skier is buried alive in a tree well.

  • S01E04 Lost at Sea

    • March 22, 2020
    • National Geographic

    Tourists struggle to stay afloat and find loved ones after a capsize in rough seas. Friends search for an expectant father who lost control of his BMX and plunged off a cliff.

  • S01E05 Sunken Survivor

    • March 29, 2020
    • National Geographic

    Dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves; a team sent to recover bodies from a sunken wreck finds one man still alive.

  • S01E06 Hoisted from Hell

    • April 5, 2020
    • National Geographic

    A rescue team fights through a storm to reach a fisherman whose hand has been ripped through a winch; and a crevasse opens up under a group of climbers.