John Hopkins

The place where they first dived together, and where, two decades later, Don continues to dance in the water, both for himself and for Dave.

In the next episode, we meet Mayan Sabag.

In 2008, the 27-year-old is studying in the Chinese city of Chengdu.

One day, her friend suggests they escape the hustle and bustle and head to a remote nature reserve.

But while passing through a village nestled in the mountains, they suddenly find themselves at the epicenter of a terrible natural disaster.

A magnitude 8 earthquake that will go down as one of the deadliest in human history.

When the restaurant they're sitting in collapses, Mayan is trapped in the pitch black, buried alive, and so badly injured she's unable to even call out for help.

Even as she fights to free herself from this living tomb, up above, on the surface, the situation is even worse.

Escaping burial is just the beginning.

That's next time on Real Survival Stories.

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It is a bright spring day in April 1581, at the Royal Docks at Deptford, on the banks of the River Thames, just outside London.

Monsieur de Marchemont, the French ambassador to the English court, alights from a carriage, richly dressed in a blue velvet doublet.

Shading his eyes, he takes in the enormous crowd that has gathered at the docks.

Not for him, but for the occupant of the vehicle ahead.

The door of the lead carriage now opens, and, to an almighty cheer, Elizabeth, Queen of England, emerges into the spring sunshine.

The light catches on the innumerable jewels stitched onto her scarlet gown, turning her distinctive red hair into a fiery halo, and she raises a gracious hand in acknowledgement of her subjects.

Then she beckons to Marchmont.

Hurrying to her side, he escorts her through the crowd, with her pale hand tucked into the crook of his elbow.

They head towards a sailing ship, sitting in the dry dock and draped with royal banners in shades of red, blue and gold.