Survival Science - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Surviving a Bear Attack
Nick and Laura create tests to explore the immense power and startling speed of grizzly bears; they use Hollywood stunt tools to experience an attack and then try to recreate a miracle arrow shot that saved a man from being killed by a bear.
Surviving Nature's Fury: Storms
Nick and Laura experience Nature's fury through storm amazing generating gear that simulates terrible hurricanes, ice cold winds and even tornados. For these experiments they'll use remarkable technology that creates massive storms on Hollywood sets.
Surviving Treestand Accidents
Finding out the reasons why tree stand accidents happen and how one can prevent them; cool science mixed with dynamic experiments send the hosts, stunt team and special crash test dummies plummeting to the ground.
Surviving a Lightning Strike
Laura and Nick travel to a state-of-the-art direct effects lightning test lab. With some ``explosive'' experiments, they'll determine the power of lightning, and they'll find out how hunters and fishermen can protect themselves.
Surviving a Mountain Lion Attack
Laura and Nick explore the techniques to deal with mountain lions when they are the most dangerous; the behaviors, strength, eyesight and speed of mountain lions is scientifically broken down.
LOST!
Nick and Laura head deep into the mountains to explore survival techniques from the Survival Training School of California.
ATV Accidents
ATVs have allowed us to penetrate the wilderness like never before. But they've also made the backcountry a bit more dangerous. Laura and Nick rig up some dramatic, high-speed tests to see how accidents happen and what you can do to protect yourself.
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