Dual Survival

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Dual Survival
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Genre Reality show, Survival skills
Starring Dave Canterbury (Season 1-2)
Cody Lundin (Season 1-4)
Joseph Teti (Season 3-6)
Matt Graham (Season 4-6)
Grady Powell (Season 7-8)
Bill McConnell (Season 7)
Josh James (Season 8)
Bo McGlone (Season 8)
EJ Snyder (Season 9)
Jeff Zausch (Season 9)
Narrated by Paul Christie
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons9
No. of episodes84 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers Charlie Corwin, Brian Nashel, French Horwitz
Camera setup Multiple
Running time45 minutes
Production company Original Media
Original release
Network Discovery Channel
ReleaseJune 11, 2010 (2010-06-11) 
October 12, 2016 (2016-10-12)

Dual Survival is a United States reality television series that airs on the Discovery Channel. The show features a pair of survival experts in predetermined survival scenarios while in challenging environments. [1]

Contents

For the first two seasons, the show featured the differing outdoor survival philosophies and skills of Cody Lundin, a naturalist and primitive-skills expert who runs the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, and Dave Canterbury, a military-trained survival instructor who runs the Pathfinder Training School in Ohio. [2] Beginning with the third season, Canterbury was replaced with Joseph "Joe" Teti, and in Season 4, Matt Graham replaced Lundin; Teti and Graham remained with the show through Season 6. Season 7 features Grady Powell, an ex-U.S. Army Green Beret, who replaced Joseph Teti, and Bill McConnell, a wilderness survivalist, who replaced Matt Graham. Season 8 Bill McConnell is replaced by Josh James for all but the last 2 episodes of the season where Josh James is replaced by Airforce veteran Bo Mcglone. In Season 9 both Grady and Bo are replaced by Naked and Afraid stars E.J. and Jeff.

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesCastOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1 10 Cody Lundin Dave Canterbury June 11, 2010 (2010-06-11)August 20, 2010 (2010-08-20)
2 12 April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22)July 1, 2011 (2011-07-01)
3 11 Joseph Teti January 1, 2013 (2013-01-01)March 13, 2013 (2013-03-13)
4 10 Cody Lundin
Matt Graham
April 23, 2014 (2014-04-23)June 25, 2014 (2014-06-25)
5 13 Matt Graham January 21, 2015 (2015-01-21)April 22, 2015 (2015-04-22)
6 4 September 30, 2015 (2015-09-30)October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)
7 10 Bill McConnell Grady Powell January 13, 2016 (2016-01-13)March 15, 2016 (2016-03-15)
8 7 Josh James
Bo McGlone
June 15, 2016 (2016-06-15)August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03)
9 7 Jeff Zausch EJ Snyder August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24)October 12, 2016 (2016-10-12)

Production

Season 1 and Season 2 of Dual Survival originally aired in 2010 and 2011, respectively. [3] [4]

Season 3 commenced production in 2012 and began airing on January 1, 2013. [5] [6]

Season 4 debuted on April 23, 2014, and Season 5 began airing on January 21, 2015. [7]

Season 6 aired its first episode on September 30, 2015.

Season 7 aired its first episode on January 13, 2016.

Season 8 aired its first episode on June 15, 2016, featuring Grady Powell and new partner Joshua James. Joshua is from New Zealand and has a high profile in the survival world.

Season 9 aired its first episode on August 24, 2016, featuring new hosts Edwin John Snyder and Jeffrey Zausch.

Format

In Dual Survival's first two seasons, each episode featured Lundin and Canterbury in a different survival scenario: marooned on a deserted island, lost in a foreboding jungle, stranded in an arid desert, etc. They had to survive for a number of days with minimal gear that pertained to the scenario. [8] Along the way, Lundin and Canterbury demonstrated various survival skills such as using primitive methods to make fire, obtaining potable water, and hunting, foraging, or gathering food.

Conflict often arose from differences between the survivalists' philosophies and methods. For example, Canterbury often remarked on Lundin's choice to not wear shoes or long pants, regardless of the scenario's environment, such as glaciers. [9] [ failed verification ]

In Season 3, Joseph Teti replaced Dave Canterbury, [10] and in February 2014, prior to the start of Season 4, Cody Lundin announced via Facebook that he was fired by Discovery Channel owing to what he alleges were “differences over safety and health concerns.” [11] [12] Early in Season 4, Matt Graham replaced Cody Lundin as Teti's partner. [11]

International broadcasters

Spin off

A Brazilian version of Dual Survivor started filming in 2012 and was titled Dual Survival Brazil (pt). It was produced by Mixer and aired for two seasons. [14] [15] The survival experts on this show are Edmilson Leite, a colonel in the Brazilian Air Force, and Leonardo Rocha, who has lived with indigenous tribes and is a primitive skills specialist. [16] [17]

DVD releases

DVD NameNo. of
episodes
Run time
(minutes)
Release
Dual Survival Season 110491 [18] August 2, 2011
Dual Survival Season 210516August 13, 2013

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