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The Best Episodes of Dual Survival

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 10 - Bogged Down
    8.3/10(46 votes)

    #1 - Bogged Down

    S1:E10

    Code and Dave wade through piranha-infested water in Brazil's Pantanal.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 1 - Slash and Burn
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #2 - Slash and Burn

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 8 - Soaked
    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #3 - Soaked

    S1:E8

    For two boat-wrecked hunters, surviving in the Pacific Northwest rainforest takes keen navigation skills and the know-how to avoid hypothermia and signal for rescue. Dave and Cody take on this nightmare scenario and show what it takes to survive.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 5 - Frozen Plains
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    #4 - Frozen Plains

    S2:E5

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 5 - Panic in the Jungle
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #5 - Panic in the Jungle

    S1:E5

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 6 - Swamped
    8.0/10(46 votes)

    #6 - Swamped

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 7 - Split Up
    8.0/10(39 votes)

    #7 - Split Up

    S1:E7

    Dave and Cody must trek through tough Arizona terrain to find each other before making their way back to civilization.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 6 - Out of Africa
    8.0/10(41 votes)

    #8 - Out of Africa

    S2:E6

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 8 - Adrift
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #9 - Adrift

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 12 - Road to Nowhere
    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #10 - Road to Nowhere

    S2:E12

    The hosts portray two lost travelers who run out of gas on an abandoned logging road in Northern Maine. To survive, they loot a broken-down truck for supplies and find a can of dog food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dual Survival Season 3 Episode 8 - Belly of the Beast
    7.9/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Belly of the Beast

    S3:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 1 - Shipwrecked
    7.8/10(67 votes)

    #12 - Shipwrecked

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 2 - Failed Ascent
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    #13 - Failed Ascent

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 3 - Stuck in the Muck
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #14 - Stuck in the Muck

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 3 - Out of Air
    7.7/10(45 votes)

    #15 - Out of Air

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 4 - Desert Breakdown
    7.7/10(44 votes)

    #16 - Desert Breakdown

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 9 - Eating Dust
    7.7/10(36 votes)

    #17 - Eating Dust

    S2:E9

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dual Survival Season 3 Episode 11 - Misty Mountain Drop
    7.7/10(31 votes)

    #18 - Misty Mountain Drop

    S3:E11

    On the season finale, Cody and Joe take on the mountains of Northern California. The damp and treacherous woodland environment proves to be the ultimate test for Cody and Joe, with drastic temperature changes and a lack of dry materials for fire-building.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dual Survival Season 5 Episode 10 - Winter Vortex (1)
    7.7/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Winter Vortex (1)

    S5:E10

    In the snowiest part of Wyoming, Matt and Joe demonstrate how to repurpose a broken down snowmobile, make shelter from snow, and survive sub-freezing temperatures in whiteout conditions that cause them to miss a chance at rescue

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dual Survival Season 1 Episode 9 - After the Storm
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #20 - After the Storm

    S1:E9

    Cody and Dave find survival resources in the trash in a hurricane's aftermath.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 4 - Bitten
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #21 - Bitten

    S2:E4

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 7 - Out of the Clouds
    7.6/10(37 votes)

    #22 - Out of the Clouds

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 10 - Hippo Island
    7.6/10(35 votes)

    #23 - Hippo Island

    S2:E10

    In Botswana's Okavango Delta, Cody and Dave -- equipped only with a dying GPS and waterlogged binoculars -- seek to escape the dangerously territorial and deadly hippos that rule the marshland.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dual Survival Season 5 Episode 9 - Coastal Catastrophe
    7.6/10(24 votes)

    #24 - Coastal Catastrophe

    S5:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dual Survival Season 2 Episode 11 - Up the River
    7.5/10(33 votes)

    #25 - Up the River

    S2:E11

    In Kentucky, Dave and Cody take on a scenario of two kayakers who are dumped into the cold river just a few hours before sundown. To make things worse, they become separated from each other by two miles of rushing river. Then, Dave traps an irate skunk.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Bogged Down" is the best rated episode of "Dual Survival". It scored 8.3/10 based on 46 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/20/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Slash and Burn".