8.7/1079 votesLoading...#1 - 76 Days Adrift
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/2010
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.
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- 8.3/1074 votesLoading...
#2 - A Walk in Hell
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/2006
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: N/A
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- 8.3/1023 votesLoading...
#3 - Perfect Storm
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2012
A helicopter rescue crew fight for their lives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1093 votesLoading...
#4 - Shark Survivor
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/28/2005
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.
Director: Nick Copus, Ian Barnes
Writer: Ian Barnes
8.2/1036 votesLoading...#5 - Hike into Hell Canyon
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/2011
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: N/A
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- 8.2/1024 votesLoading...
#6 - Blood on the Mountain
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 7/13/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1056 votesLoading...#7 - Crash in a Volcano
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/16/2006
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1052 votesLoading...#8 - Lost in the African Bush
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/23/2006
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1043 votesLoading...#9 - A Dad's Worst Nightmare
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1028 votesLoading...#10 - Death Climb
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1030 votesLoading...#11 - Left for Dead on Everest
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1031 votesLoading...
#12 - Avalanche!
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2011
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: N/A
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- 7.8/1072 votesLoading...
#13 - Lost in the Snow
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/4/2005
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: N/A
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- 7.8/1075 votesLoading...
#14 - Escape from the Amazon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2005
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: N/A
- 7.7/1048 votesLoading...
#15 - Trapped Under a Boulder
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/10/2006
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
Writer: Nick Copus, Jamie L. Smith
7.7/1033 votesLoading...#16 - Alaskan Avalanche
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/31/2006
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: N/A
7.7/1030 votesLoading...#17 - Avalanche of Terror
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 4/30/2010
A solo hiker in the Carpathian Mountains breaks his hip and femur when he is crushed by multiple avalanches.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1034 votesLoading...#18 - Hell in the Dessert
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/2011
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1034 votesLoading...#19 - Lost at Sea
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/9/2006
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1056 votesLoading...#20 - Trapped in the Canyon
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1056 votesLoading...#21 - Date from Hell
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1053 votesLoading...
#22 - Kidnap in the Killing Fields
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/25/2005
A man involved in demining Cambodia accidentally steps on a landmine and blows off his leg. Two years earlier, he was kidnapped by a murderous group of Khmer Rouge.
Director: Nick Copus
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1026 votesLoading...
#23 - Climb out of Hell
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/2011
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: N/A
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- 7.4/1035 votesLoading...
#24 - Dive into Danger
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2006
Two divers get stranded in the Pacific Ocean when their boat has to leave them. As they believe help is not coming they make a decision to swim for shore miles away or die trying.
Director: Saul Metzstein
Writer: N/A
7.4/1040 votesLoading...#25 - Nightmare on the Mountain
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2010
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive
Every episode of I Shouldn't Be Alive ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive!
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...
Genres:DocumentaryDramaAction & Adventure
Network:Discovery
Best Episodes Summary
"76 Days Adrift" is the best rated episode of "I Shouldn't Be Alive". It scored 8.7/10 based on 79 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/17/2010. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Walk in Hell".