Dual Survival

After recommendations for a couple of friends, I started watching a TB programme called Dual Survival. It's fair to say that mid way through the first episode, I was hooked. Even though I'm now only watching episode 3 for the first series, I feel sufficiently hyped about it to write a little about it.

We have 2 survivalists, firstly Dave Canterbury (http://www.thepathfinderschoolllc.com/) an army trained sniper, secondly Cody Lundin (http://www.codylundin.com/) a minimalist. We often find that Dave is very excitable and runs on adrenaline with Cody having to make him step back and re-check what he's doing. Dave seems to have a wider variety of survival experience, for example on glaciers and in caves. Cody, who doesn't wear shoes, sometimes seems to slow the team down, but is the calm, rational member who often brings the focus back to the objective: To get rescued. For example in series 1 episode 2, Cody caught an eel, which he slit open to start the drying process - meaning thatthe eel wouldn't go off and they'd be able to eat it on the move. Dave wanted to make a fire and cook the eel, but Cody made him realise that it would waste daylight meaning that they could miss out on getting to safety that day. Dave conceded and the team moved on!

Definately a good concept for a programme and one that I'd recommened any who's interested in the outdoors and survival watch. Looking forward to the rest of the programmes, and hopefully series 3 in 2012.