Series from 2007
| Duration: | 3600 min |
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Featuring the most severe and shocking stories of survival from real people whose lives were changed forever by a moment of impact. Only the heroism f…
Denise LeBlanc was speared in the chest by a marlin while fishing off the coast of Panama. The nearest medical clinic was at a prison colony on the remote Coiba Island where Denise was stitched up with 20 gauge fishing line and flown to Panama to be stabilized.
Katherine Mayo sustained a separated spine, broken ribs, fractures in her back, a shattered pelvis, and a collapsed lung after being thrown into the inner rail of a race track in January 1998. Her husband was the announcer of the race.
In 2001, 67 year-old Jo Anne Froberg was mowing the lawn around her farm when she was attacked by a swarm of bees. She ran into her house, covered in a thick layer of madly stinging bees, and frantically called 911. When the police car arrived, the officer drove into a bizarre scene: Joanne, covered in stinging, swarming bees, and her other rescuers trapped in their cars, unable to assist her.
On a beautiful September day in Duqoin, Illinois, Jessica Ervin was going for her final jump in a collegiate water-skiing competition. When she hit the top of the 5-foot ramp, everything went wrong. The handle bar caught around her neck, dragging her underwater, severing her epiglottis and ripping the inside of her larynx from its cartilage, filling her throat with blood.
On February 2, 2002 in Columbus, Ohio, officers Todd Bush and Dawn Yoder were working routine duty, helping a stopped motorist. After talking with the motorist, Todd started back to his cruiser. What he didn't realize was that he was being stalked.
Ken Berg loved to jump. HeÍd done it more than 1,300 times, often wearing a helmet camera to record the daring antics of his mid-air acrobatic buddies. In September 2001, Ken boarded a plane that would take him, and a group of fellow jumpers, over farmland near Charleston, South Carolina. After a 35 second freefall, traveling at 120 miles per hour, Ken went to open his parachute and knew he was in immediate trouble.
