The WORST episodes of Dual Survival

Every episode of Dual Survival ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Dual Survival!

Surviving in the wild is not an exact science. Beyond the basics of finding water, food, shelter and eventually help, opinions vary. Two experts tell how they think it's done. Equipped with minimal gear, the pair are left in remote locations where they battle the elements and sometimes each other.

Last Updated: 11/21/2024Network: DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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Soaked
star
6.19
124 votes

#1 - Soaked

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/30/2010

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.

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Glacial Downfall
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6.52
130 votes

#2 - Glacial Downfall

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/14/2014

On a glacier and clinging to opposite ends of a rope, Joe and Cody face their most challenging rescue scenario ever. The frozen landscape brings Joe and Cody’s opposing survival styles to the forefront of this journey - their final episode together.

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7.04
70 votes

#3 - Fire and Ice

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2016

New partners, Grady and Bill are dropped onto a glacial volcanic peak in the Chilean Andes, where they face 70 mph winds, heavy snowfall, and sub-freezing temperatures. Hunkering down in cave shelters, they risk noxious gases and struggle to get fire.

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star
7.06
108 votes

#4 - Battle of Brazil

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/24/2016

Stranded in the scorching hot savannas of Southern Brazil, Naked and Afraid fan favorites EJ Snyder and Jeff Zausch must find a way to survive this bone-dry environment without water or food and navigate back to civilization.

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Mars on Earth
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7.14
181 votes

#5 - Mars on Earth

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2013

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest place on Earth, and it's landscape is so barren and unique that NASA uses it as a testing ground for it's Martian rovers. It is here that Cody Lundin and Joe Teti are put to the ultimate desert survival test. In this scenario, they take on the plight of a downed paraglider pilot who has crash landed on a mountain peak over 14,000 feet above sea level. Facing acute altitude sickness, and with limited water and resources, they must strip the paraglider for all it's worth and head out in search of civilization and re-hydration.

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Rocky Mountain High
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7.14
102 votes

#6 - Rocky Mountain High

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2013

Stranded at over 9,000 feet above sea level in the snow covered Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Cody and Joe battle temperatures of negative twenty degrees Fahrenheit in an effort to fight off hypothermia, and stay alive long enough to get spotted by passing

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Bogged Down
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7.15
136 votes

#7 - Bogged Down

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/20/2010

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

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Castaways
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7.15
127 votes

#8 - Castaways

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2013

Marooned on a deserted island somewhere in Fiji, Joe and Cody face unpredictable and punishing tropical storms and brave shark-infested waters. With limited resources and up against enormous odds, they'll show how to get back to civilization alive.

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Trouble in Paradise
star
7.18
132 votes

#9 - Trouble in Paradise

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2013

Isolated in the jungle of an uninhabited Hawaiian island, Joe and Cody lock heads over priorities. Cody battles the dangers of dehydration searching for water and fire-making tools, while Joe gears up for mortal combat with aggressive feral boars.

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Meltdown
star
7.22
97 votes

#10 - Meltdown

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2013

Stranded in the middle of Zambia's hot, wild plains, Joe and Cody must avoid territorial hippos and herds of elephants to find water and shelter. An argument over whether to sleep inside a bat-infested hollow tree threatens to break the team apart.

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Belly of the Beast
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7.22
131 votes

#11 - Belly of the Beast

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2013

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.

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star
7.29
65 votes

#12 - Take Me to the River

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/2016

Bill and Grady commune with animals to navigate through the Amazonian jungle.

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star
7.30
60 votes

#13 - Long Way Home

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/20/2016

Grady and Bill try to get fire in the damp rainforest while they are stranded in Chile; Grady and Bill use a primitive fire and hunt to help with their survival.

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star
7.30
99 votes

#14 - Forest From Hell

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/31/2016

Lost in a mile-high Araucaria forest of South America, Army Combat Veteran EJ Snyder and Wilderness Survivalist Jeff Zausch must brave venomous pit vipers, fight a wild boar and survive the treacherous terrain in their search for rescue.

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star
7.31
61 votes

#15 - Braving Bolivia

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2015

Joe and Matt face a journey of epic proportions in the Bolivian Andes. From the world's largest salt flat 12,000ft above sea level, through a desert with toxic water and into mountain peaks, they're in a constant battle against dehydration and altitude.

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star
7.33
66 votes

#16 - On Thin Ice

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/17/2016

Grady and Bill fight the bitter cold in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains.

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Out Of Air
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7.34
175 votes

#17 - Out Of Air

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/2010

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.

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star
7.34
61 votes

#18 - Scorched Earth

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/10/2016

Grady and Bill are stranded in the Namib Desert of southern Africa.

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star
7.37
60 votes

#19 - Snow Daze

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/27/2016

In a special military edition of Dual Survival an Air Force veteran and a former Green Beret must navigate the exhausting, snowy terrain of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains.

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star
7.39
90 votes

#20 - Winter Vortex Part Two

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/2015

Conclusion. The guys find a use for a broken snowmobile and make a shelter in the snow as they try not to freeze before they are rescued in Wyoming.

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star
7.41
49 votes

#21 - Fractured Journey

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2015

Matt and Joe take on one of the most common and deadly scenarios in the wilderness: an injury that requires medical intervention. Caught in a thick jungle, this worst-case becomes a test of will in the struggle to get out alive.

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One Shot, One Kill
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7.41
68 votes

#22 - One Shot, One Kill

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/25/2014

Joe and Matt hunt their target into unfamiliar territory.

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star
7.43
82 votes

#23 - Croatian Castaway

Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/2016

Trapped in the jagged canyons of Croatia's Velebit Mountain, new partners Grady and Josh must work together to navigate the frigid, fast-moving rapids, and descend treacherous waterfalls in order to find salvation in this remote landscape.

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Split Up
star
7.46
150 votes

#24 - Split Up

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/23/2010

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

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star
7.47
66 votes

#25 - Blackout

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/2016

In the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, located between Russia and Turkey, EJ and Jeff find themselves in a nightmarish scenario as they’re surrounded by 800-pound bears and trapped in a pitch-black cavern.

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