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The Best Episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive

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The show features accounts of individuals and groups caught in dangerous scenarios, presented both through interviews and dramatic reenactments. The main focus is how the survivors survived and the decisions they made that kept them

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 6 - 76 Days Adrift
    8.8/10(81 votes)

    #1 - 76 Days Adrift

    S4:E6

    Steven Callahan departs from El Hierro in the Canary Islands, in Napoleon Solo - a sloop he designed and built himself. He's bound for Antigua as part of the Mini Transat 6.50 single-handed sailing race from Penzance, England. One night a ferocious storm severely damages his boat. He escapes the sinking vessel in an inflatable life-raft, nicknamed Ducky, with a meagre supply of food and water. For 76 days he is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean at the mercy of the currents and winds. During his ordeal he is battered by the elements, attacked by sharks and plagued by constant punctures to his raft. It's an epic story where one man's will to survive is put to the ultimate test.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 6 Episode 6 - Perfect Storm
    8.5/10(24 votes)

    #2 - Perfect Storm

    S6:E6

    A helicopter rescue crew fight for their lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 2 Episode 7 - A Walk in Hell
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #3 - A Walk in Hell

    S2:E7

    A group of five teenaged scouts and three adult guides hike into the Grand Canyon during a heat wave. As their water runs out and the older members collapse in exhaustion, three of the teenagers must set out on their own to reach the Colorado River.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 1 - A Dad's Worst Nightmare
    8.3/10(44 votes)

    #4 - A Dad's Worst Nightmare

    S4:E1

    Divorcee Mathew McGough is taking his five-year-old daughter Shannon for an overnight camping trip to Wallaroo Rocks, deep in the Western Australian Outback. It's Mathew's last chance to spend time with his daughter before he packs up and moves to South Australia to start a new life, so he's keen to make it a trip to remember. When Mathew takes a wrong turn it triggers a sequence of disastrous events that puts both their lives in serious danger. After 8 days in the outback Mathew is on the verge of death and confronted with an excruciating dilemma - kill his young daughter, or leave her to face a painful death alongside him, in one of the world's most hostile environments.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 11 - Hike into Hell Canyon
    8.3/10(39 votes)

    #5 - Hike into Hell Canyon

    S4:E11

    Twenty five year old nurse Linda Forney and her pet dog Cocoa Gin set off to explore one of the seven natural wonders of the world - the Grand Canyon. On route to a native Indian village she takes a wrong turn and ends up lost, alone and with no food or water. Totally disoriented Linda hikes deeper into the maze of sub-canyons that make up the Grand Canyon. With temperatures exceeding 100 degrees and surrounded by exotic and dangerous wild animals, Linda finds herself in a real fight for survival. After weeks of little water, dehydration and starvation start bring her close to death. Then she finds herself trapped in a canyon, with no way out.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 5 Episode 2 - Blood on the Mountain
    8.3/10(25 votes)

    #6 - Blood on the Mountain

    S5:E2

    British hiker Matt Briggs spends ten days stranded in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island following a crippling fall on a solo trek. With no sign of rescue and his supplies running low, Matt and his canine companion 'Little Dog' must fight horrendous injuries and brutal terrain to save their own lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 1 - Shark Survivor
    8.2/10(104 votes)

    #7 - Shark Survivor

    S1:E1

    1982. Five people get caught in a tropical storm and their yacht sinks. They have to survive in the middle of the ocean on a raft with absolutely no survival equipment. To their horror they find the area of the ocean to be infested with sharks.

    Directors:Nick Copus, Ian Barnes
    Writer:Ian Barnes

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  8. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 12 - Crash in a Volcano
    8.2/10(62 votes)

    #8 - Crash in a Volcano

    S1:E12

    Three men filming a volcano in their helicopter crash after losing control and get trapped in a crater of the active volcano. Surrounded by unclimbable ridges and poisonous gases, they must send one of them to radio for help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 12 - Death Climb
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #9 - Death Climb

    S4:E12

    In January 1999, Jamie Andrew and his friend Jamie Fisher are trapped on a ledge in the French Alps when a surprise snowstorm blows in.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 15 - Left for Dead on Everest
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    #10 - Left for Dead on Everest

    S4:E15

    50 year-old Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall attempted to climb Everest in 1984 but didn't reach the summit. Now, 22 years later, he has a second chance. Despite his age, Lincoln fulfils his lifelong dream, but on the descent is struck by a deadly form of altitude sickness known as a cerebral oedema. Unable to climb and suffering from hypothermia, Lincoln is left for dead at 28,000ft. His survival is nothing short of a miracle.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 13 - Lost in the African Bush
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Lost in the African Bush

    S1:E13

    Five survivors of a private plane crash must survive the dangers of the desolate African wilderness. With two severely injured, some of the group must wander off to find rescue, even though there is no civilization for hundreds of miles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 5 Episode 1 - Avalanche!
    8.0/10(33 votes)

    #12 - Avalanche!

    S5:E1

    Five young guys from Bozeman, Montana have got together for a back-country ski trip to celebrate New Year 2005. Sam Kavanagh, Blake Morstad, Jason Thompson, Chris Maki and Matt Schuyler have grown up together. They're close friends and expert skiers. On the final day of their trip they accidentally trigger a huge avalanche. One of the gang is killed and another is left critically injured. Miles from safety, a dream adventure turns into a living hell.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 2 - Date from Hell
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #13 - Date from Hell

    S3:E2

    A couple go on a tour of the San Jacinto Mountains, only to find themselves stranded and alone for 4 days fighting for their lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 2 - Lost in the Snow
    7.8/10(78 votes)

    #14 - Lost in the Snow

    S1:E2

    A U.S. Army Private, his wife, and their five-month old son travel to a funeral, but on the way there, they miss the sign that leads to the city and instead go into an uninhabited national park which is closed for the winter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 3 - Escape from the Amazon
    7.8/10(79 votes)

    #15 - Escape from the Amazon

    S1:E3

    Three friends go to the Amazon for a trip but things get nasty when their guide leads them to jeopardy. As the four (three friends and guide) split into two groups, one pair faces disaster at every turn, while the other two are never heard from again.

    Director:Nick Copus
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 7 - Trapped Under a Boulder
    7.8/10(51 votes)

    #16 - Trapped Under a Boulder

    S1:E7

    An environmentalist heads for a remote island off the coast of Queensland, he then meets a Dutch man on a deserted beach. A one ton slab of granite hits the environmentalist and pins him down to the bed of a creek. The Dutchman must find help for his new friend.

    Director:Nick Copus
    Writers:Nick Copus, Jamie L. Smith

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  17. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 10 - Avalanche of Terror
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Avalanche of Terror

    S3:E10

    A solo hiker in the Carpathian Mountains breaks his hip and femur when he is crushed by multiple avalanches.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 4 Episode 13 - Hell in the Dessert
    7.8/10(36 votes)

    #18 - Hell in the Dessert

    S4:E13

    Just three months into a new relationship, Roger Sargeant, his new girlfriend Shelly and her two young daughters Tiffany (9) and Michaela (5) are on a day trip in the Arizona desert. Things go badly wrong when they get lost and are then forced to abandon their car. In a desperate bid to walk out they become separated. Over two hellish days and nights, Roger and Shelly's family, independently battle to escape soaring summer heat, dehydration, hostile terrain, rattlesnakes and prowling gangs of people smugglers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 1 - Trapped in the Canyon
    7.7/10(59 votes)

    #19 - Trapped in the Canyon

    S3:E1

    Two-time adventure racing world champion Danelle Ballengee suffers a pelvis-shattering 60-foot fall and 2 nights in sub-freezing weather in a Canyon near Moab, Utah, accompanied only by her dog, Taz.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 9 - Blizzard of Death
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #20 - Blizzard of Death

    S3:E9

    A father and son on a hunting expedition in Kyrgyzstan are caught in a blizzard, and the rescue helicopter sent to retrieve them crashes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 5 Episode 5 - Climb out of Hell
    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Climb out of Hell

    S5:E5

    Amateur photographer Jordan Nicurity is exploring a beautiful cove on Hornby Island in British Columbia when he falls 20ft from a cliff, shattering his pelvis and rupturing internal organs. Crippled by injury Jordan faces a life and death struggle only miles from where he lives. For 4 days his will to survive is put to the ultimate test.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 10 - Alaskan Avalanche
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #22 - Alaskan Avalanche

    S1:E10

    Two climbers are scaling a sheer ice-wall in an Alaskan mountain when one of the climbers falls and is badly injured. A passing aircraft sees their SOS signal, but damages the landing gear in the process. Now, the people on board are also stranded on the icy wasteland.

    Director:Nick Copus
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 1 Episode 11 - Lost at Sea
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #23 - Lost at Sea

    S1:E11

    Two sons looking to repair their relationship with their father plan a fishing trip with their father in Mexico. An unexpected storm leaves them stranded in the middle of the Sea of Cortez.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 3 - Nightmare on the Mountain
    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #24 - Nightmare on the Mountain

    S3:E3

    An 18 year-old elk hunter in Montana is seriously injured by a bear and must spend a night wandering the wooded mountain area in search of help before his injuries claim his life while his parents search for him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 Episode 6 - Fear in Freefall
    7.6/10(44 votes)

    #25 - Fear in Freefall

    S3:E6

    Three friends sky diving trip goes horribly wrong when their plane gets caught by a storm, sending them into the shark infested waters of Costa Rica.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"76 Days Adrift" is the best rated episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive". It scored 8.8/10 based on 81 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/17/2010. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Perfect Storm".