It looks interesting... Hope it is better than the "colony" which is so unrealistic.

I have the DVR ready for Tuesday's show.

yeah, survivorman seems more practical out of all of the shows, this new one seems good, "the colony" is a reality, almost competition show...not good. man vs wild is staged "survival-like scenarios" which come off as fake, and some of the techniques he uses seem downright risky, even too dangerous for the lay survivalist...

i find that movie "special features" have a lot to provide, especially movies like "shooter", "the hunted" and so forth...movies on topics of survival/camo and concealment, etc...

Looks interesting, thanks for the heads up.

I see they have the Bravo Two Zero story on there, i'd keep a very open mind when reading that one or watching it, theres enough controversy surrounding that patrol and the exagerations made by the authors of that book to fill an entire forum.

CX.

i've seen the military channel doc about it, idk how much is from first hand reports vs. the book though, but it was pretty rough from the documentary and re-enactments, etc...

OMG I fell asleep and missed it! BAD nixie.
How was the show?

Excellent show. The host is knowledgeable, experienced, succinct, practical, and insightful.

This isn't a BS show.

This is practical knowledge obtained by the blood of others, and many things on the particular disaster of the moment has far many more applications in other disasters.

Like cross-training.

Look forward to seeing the next one.

Originally posted by nixie_nox
OMG I fell asleep and missed it! BAD nixie.
How was the show?

Lol, i forgot all about it.

Hopefully it will be on again.

CX.

I said this in another thread, but I'll say it here too:

Surviving Disaster is made in affiliation with the RAND Corp. Knowing that, and that RAND is a MAJOR government contractor, I guarantee that this show will be nothing but fearmongering and propaganda.

I watched the show last night and it reminded me of the "Worst Case Scenario" books! It was very good and informative!

I had a problem with one piece of advice they gave. I hope some of our commercial pilots can clear it up for me. They advised a passenger that had never piloted before should get into the cockpit and pull back on the stick to pull the jet out of a dive? I think that was bad advice, because if the hijacker was removed, the plane would return to level flight on its own! Any inputs from somebody that didn't know what they were doing, could cause a stall and a crash!

I have only flown small planes, no airliners, so I hope some of our commercial pilots can let me know if I am wrong or if the show gave some faulty advice on that aspect?

Overall, it was a very good show!