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| It’s Survival of the Fittest During OLN’s Survival Week, March 10 - 14 |
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on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 04:33 PM |
Don’t fret! This March break, when the kids are out of school and driving everyone crazy, find out what extreme survival is all about in OLN’s Survival Week. Running Mon., March 10 – Fri., March 14 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. PT, the endurance-themed programming featured this week includes Extreme Survival with Ray Mears, Survivorman, How Not to Die, and Miracle at Sea. Get through the mid-winter break with tips from outdoor survival experts who are accustomed to living in dangerous environments…and coming out alive. See how these outdoor experts – and sometimes average citizens – face harrowing situations, push themselves to the limit and live to tell their stories.
OLN’s Survival Week runs as follows:
Extreme Survival with Ray Mears
Mon., March 10 – Fri., March 14 at 7 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT
Internationally-renowned British survival expert Ray Mears travels the globe in search of the world’s greatest survival stories, in the compelling series Extreme Survival with Ray Mears. Throughout each one-hour episode this week, watch as Mears travels to remote corners of the planet – in treacherous conditions – and meets extraordinary people who have endured perilous situations due to their survival know-how.
Survivorman
Mon., March 10 – Fri., March 14 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT
Les Stroud is back on a quest for survival as he travels to exotic locations to face the elements and put his life on the line in a series of week-long challenges. Watch as Stroud relies on his skills and experience to find shelter, food and water to make it through the seven days. Plants, animals, even the landscape itself all come to play a role in the survival stories, as Stroud is once again reduced to scrounging for wildflowers, roots and bugs to avoid starvation.
How Not to Die
Mon., March 10 – Thurs., March 13 at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
Nothing is as tenacious as the human instinct for survival. Every day news media reports stories of people who by all means should be dead yet somehow managed to stay alive. Find out how some of these people have survived against all odds and what you could do in a similar situation. Throughout each hour-long episode this week, witness amazing re-enactments and interviews with people who have beaten the odds when they were stacked against them. Then, survival expert Chris Ryan offers tips on how to handle fear and make it out of the most frightening situations alive.
Miracle at Sea
Fri., March 14 at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT
In January 1997 the world witnessed a miracle at sea. During a round-the-world single-handed yacht race, sailor Tony Bullimore’s vessel capsized in the Southern Ocean leaving him adrift in the ocean for several days. Declared missing and feared dead, this compelling one-hour special relieves Bullimore’s remarkable story as he clung to life in the darkness of the freezing hull for five long days.
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