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  • National Geographic

Extreme Rescues

  • 2020
  • Ended
  • Reality · Documentary
  • ~44m / ep
  • 1 season

Footage of real-life rescues captured by the rescuers themselves as they put their lives on the line saving others.

Latest: Season 1 · 2020

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  1. E1. Back From the Dead

    Mar 1, 2020 · 44m

    Dramatic real-life footage is captured by the rescuers themselves. A kayaker in New Zealand fights to save his drowning friend.

  2. E2. Disaster Strikes

    Mar 8, 2020 · 44m

    Dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves. A caver tries to save his friend trapped in a flooding passage.

  3. E3. Bleeding Out

    Mar 15, 2020 · 44m

    A freak accident severs a professional cyclist’s artery miles from medical help, a kayaker fights to rescue his friend who’s trapped upside down in white water rapids, and a backcountry skier is buried alive in a tree well.

  4. E4. Lost at Sea

    Mar 22, 2020 · 44m

    Tourists struggle to stay afloat and find loved ones after a capsize in rough seas. Friends search for an expectant father who lost control of his BMX and plunged off a cliff.

  5. E5. Sunken Survivor

    Mar 29, 2020 · 44m

    Dramatic real-life footage captured by the rescuers themselves; a team sent to recover bodies from a sunken wreck finds one man still alive.

  6. E6. Hoisted from Hell

    Apr 5, 2020 · 44m

    A rescue team fights through a storm to reach a fisherman whose hand has been ripped through a winch; and a crevasse opens up under a group of climbers.