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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story. By Jonathan Franklin.
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6 Famous Castaways
Explore six incredible stories of people who were stranded in unforgiving territory and lived to tell the tale.
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“Enough shovels go to around”: Ars looks back at the lies of the Cold War
In the early and late Cold War years, the US government planned for nuclear survival.
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5 Survival Tips
How to make a trap? In this video clip I am going to show you the best 5 traps to survive! I have a strong hope that you will use my knowledge for guidance only but not for idle pleasure and environmental damage! Thanks for watching the lesson of survival.
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How I Ran From War: 70 Miles in 24 Hours—In Flip-Flops
When armed rebels crossed the Sierra Leone border, Mustapha Wai ran. He ran and ran and ran, toward hope, knowing a better life lie ahead. As told to Amy Maxmen.
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Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street
Americans are starting 2016 with more job security, but most are still theoretically only one paycheck away from the street. Approximately 63% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair, according to a survey released Wednesday of 1,000 adults by personal finance website Bankrate.com, up slightly from 62% last year. Faced with an emergency, they say they would raise the money by...
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How the New Science of Freezing Can Save Your Life
People coming back to life after being frozen stiff. Frogs that cryopreserve for winter and then reanimate. The emerging frontier of extreme cold is offering revolutionary new insights and therapies for everything from deadly exposure to peak athletic performance. By Rene Ebersole.
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Cord drill and Pump drill
I made a cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning top. the middle of a piece of cord is then put into a notch at the top of the spindle. The ends of the cord are then wrapped around the spindle and then pulled quickly outwards causing the drill to spin. The momentum of the fly wheel causes...
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Werner Herzog Is Ready for the End of the World
The director on what it's like to be unplugged from the internet and why he would make an excellent survivalist.
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9 Things Tokyo’s New Disaster Guide Can Teach You About Survival
Knowing how to survive in the wild isn't the same thing as knowing how to survive in the big city when an earthquake or tsunami strikes. Wherever you live, Japan's new survival manual may save your life. Unlike most survival manuals, this is realistic advice for real people in plausible situations. By Wes Siler.
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Digging Out
In February 2003, an avalanche killed seven students in B.C.’s Glacier National Park. None of the survivors of that day have ever talked to the media. Until now. By Ainsley Doty.
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Marooned Among the Polar Bears
Last July, a Russian helicopter pilot had nearly completed a record-breaking trip around the globe when he crashed into the icy waters of the Arctic Circle. He never should have survived. By Justin Nobel.
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Thicker Than Water: How Dan and Kate Suski Survived a Night at Sea
When a charter boat sunk in the Caribbean and spilled Dan and Kate Suski into the sea, the brother and sister’s bond would become the difference between life and death. By Matthew Halverson. (Oct. ’15)
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This Might Shock You: Downed Power Line
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The Longest Night
One Easter Sunday, the Alaska Ranger — a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor — went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill a man in minutes. Forty-two of them would be rescued. Here’s how. By Sean Flynn. (Oct. ’08)
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The Reckoning
Fifty years ago, when Claire Wilson was eighteen, she was critically wounded during the 1966 University of Texas Tower shooting—the first massacre of its kind. How does the path of a bullet change a life? By Pamela Colloff.
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What It’s Like to Almost Get Executed
San Quentin inmate Kevin Cooper on watching the minutes tick away on his life.
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Handicapped crabs can still bluff their way to victory
But poorly equipped fiddlers turn tail when fights turn violent
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Man survives 135-foot plunge off Brooklyn Bridge
A 32-year-old man jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge Tuesday morning – but miraculously survived the 135-foot plunge.
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Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War
The S.S. Robin Moor set out from New York City on May 6, 1941, for a routine shipping run to Africa. All did not go as planned. By Amanda Schaffer.
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