Johnstown Flood | Overflow | 2
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Engineer John Parke and a team of workers furiously shovel dirt, trying to shore up the South Fork D...
Johnstown Flood | The Dam | 1
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s May, 30th 1889, and the South Fork Dam in Western Pennsylvania is in danger. After nearly a m...
Adrift in the Pacific | Creatures of the Sea | 3
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over 100 days have passed since the Baileys’ yacht sank, leaving them adrift on a life raft in the...
Adrift in the Pacific | Distress Signals | 2
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s March 1973, and Maurice and Maralyn Bailey are floating on a small life raft in the middle of...
Adrift in the Pacific | The Sinking | 1
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1972, Marilyn and Maurice Bailey decide to leave their quiet lives in suburban Engl...
Encore: Donner Party | In Their Footsteps | 4
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December of 1846, a small group split off from the Donner Party in a desperate attempt to find he...
Encore: Donner Party | Consumed | 3
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1847, a series of rescue parties fought their way through record snowfall to try to...
Encore: Donner Party | Snow and Blood | 2
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In November of 1846, an early snowstorm left the Donner Party’s 87 men, women and children trapped...
Encore: Donner Party | The Shortcut | 1
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1840s, thousands of Americans journeyed west to California to pursue better lives. One group ...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Lone Survivor | 4
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Brian Murphy first discovered Leon Crane’s story buried in a press release about a fell...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | The Long Walk | 3
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leon Crane abandons the safety of an old hunter’s cabin to make a final push towards what he hopes...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Cabin Fever | 2
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pilot Leon Crane has spent a week stranded in the Alaska backcountry after his plane crashed, and is...
Alone in the Alaska Wilderness | Survival Mode | 1
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s December 1943 and First Lieutenant Leon Crane and his crewmates board the Iceberg Inez, a B-2...
Lost in the Rainforest | A Conversation with Yossi Ghinsberg | 4
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Yossi Ghinsberg joins host Cassie De Pecol to discuss how he survived for three weeks alone i...
Lost in the Rainforest | Man of Action | 3
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Gale desperately tries to organize a search party for Yossi Ghinsberg, who is still lost in th...
Lost in the Rainforest | Swept Away | 2
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After splitting off from their group, Yossi Ghinsberg and Kevin Gale hope to complete their journey ...
Lost in the Rainforest | Into the Jungle | 1
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America....
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | One Foot in the Black | 5
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Dickman remembers the exact moment he learned about the fate of the Granite Mountain Hotshots. ...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Radio Silence | 4
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fueled by 50-mile-an-hour winds, the Yarnell Hill Fire rages out of control. Fire officials have no ...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Shifting Winds | 3
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Yarnell Hill Fire abruptly changes direction, hotshot Brendan McDonough has to abandon his ...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | Into the Breach | 2
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Granite Mountain Hotshots arrive in Yarnell to help fight what is now the number-one fire priori...
Granite Mountain Hotshots Disaster | The Spark | 1
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On June 28th, 2013, lightning sparks a wildfire near the town of Yarnell in central Arizona. Fueled ...
Hurricane Katrina | Katrina Babies with Filmmaker Edward Buckles Jr. | 5
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans, 13-year-old Edward Buckles, Jr. piled into a car with h...
Hurricane Katrina | We Were Here | 4
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At long last, the government’s rescue effort kicks into high gear and buses arrive to evacuate peo...
Hurricane Katrina | Beyond Critical | 3
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Days after Hurricane Katrina floods their city, residents of New Orleans become increasingly despera...
Hurricane Katrina | Stranded | 2
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Officials learn that the storm surge from Katrina has breached New Orleans’s levees, allowing wate...
Hurricane Katrina | Code Gray | 1
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s late August 2005, and the city of New Orleans makes preparations for the arrival of Hurricane...
Apollo 13 | A Flight Director Remembers | 6
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert went through the ordeal of their lives on the Apollo 13 Miss...
Apollo 13 | Splashdown | 5
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Six days into their mission, the Apollo 13 astronauts have been working under immense pressure and o...
Apollo 13 | 43 Amps | 4
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The three astronauts on the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft round the Moon and finally begin the retur...
Apollo 13 | Tiger Team | 3
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft have retreated into the cramped lunarmodule, th...
Apollo 13 | Slingshot | 2
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After an explosion cripples the Apollo 13 spacecraft, NASA’s Mission Control in Houston scrambles ...
Apollo 13 | "Houston, We’ve Had a Problem." | 1
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On April 11th, 1970, NASA launched Apollo 13, its third manned mission to the Moon. But two days int...
In Their Own Words: Stranded in Joshua Tree | 1
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On May 22, 2018, Claire Nelson set out on what she thought would be a four-hour hike in Southern Cal...
Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Climb | 4
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a final attempt to escape the Andes, Nando and Roberto have headed east to pursue safety. The men...
Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Choice | 3
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After escaping an avalanche that killed eight more passengers, the survivors of the Fairchild are st...
Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Cutting | 2
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The remaining survivors of the Fairchild crash are starting to lose hope that rescuers will arrive a...
Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Crash | 1
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team traveling to their next match in Santiago, Chile, crashes i...
Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | "When the Going Gets Tough..." | 5
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Of the more than 500 Prinsendam passengers and crew, every one of them was eventually rescued and br...
Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | The Last Lifeboat | 4
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rescue workers begin the painstakingly slow process of airlifting cruise ship evacuees one by one fr...
Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | Adrift | 3
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the fire aboard Prinsendam now burning out of control, the captain gives the order to abandon s...
Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | Dead in the Water | 2
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As crew members aboard Prinsendam work to contain the fire, passengers shiver on the decks in the co...
Fire at Sea: Cruise Ship Rescue | The Blaze | 1
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In October of 1980, the luxury cruise ship Prinsendam set sail from Vancouver with more than 300 pas...
Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | 100th Episode, Amelia’s Final Flight | 3
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s officially Against the Odds’ 100th episode! To celebrate the milestone, hosts Cassie De Pec...
Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | Solo | 2
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By 1929, Amelia Earhart was famous for her groundbreaking flight across the Atlantic, with pilo...
Amelia Earhart: Across the Atlantic | The Race | 1
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1928, a social worker named Amelia Earhart received a phone call that would alter the cours...
Alaska Bear Attack | Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert | 3
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bear. Running. Toward me. Writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemert encountered only one dan...
Alaska Bear Attack | Three Long Hours | 2
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After Bart Pieciul is mauled by a bear in the Alaska wilderness, his friends have to use all of thei...
Alaska Bear Attack | In Defense of Life and Property | 1
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The residents of Haines, Alaska are used to living alongside bears. The region surrounding their sma...
Himalayan Spy Mission | Back to the Mountains with Pete Takeda | 4
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When outdoor writer Pete Takeda first heard the story of a covert CIA operation in the Himalayas, he...
Himalayan Spy Mission | The Dome | 3
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two years have passed since the team of Indian and American elite climbers lost a nuclear-powered sp...
Himalayan Spy Mission | Retrieval | 2
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Winter storms arrived early on the Himalayan peak Nanda Devi, forcing the team of American and India...
Himalayan Spy Mission | The Device | 1
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1965, with Cold War tensions escalating, the CIA and India’s Intelligence Bureau joined forces ...
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | Lost Cities with Mike Heckenberger | 5
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Searching for lost cities in the Amazon sounds like something out of a Hollywood script – unless y...
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | River's End | 4
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After weeks on the River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition is on the verge of collapse. Bu...
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | A Killer In Their Midst | 3
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Challenges mount as the expedition travels farther down the river. With the end of their journey now...
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | River of Doubt | 2
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Theodore Roosevelt’s expedition sets off down the River of Doubt, it doesn’t take long for th...
Uncharted: Teddy Roosevelt's Amazon Expedition | Headwaters | 1
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1913, former President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a perilous expedition to explore one of the...
Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | One Survivor’s Story | 3
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the afternoon of July 15, 1976, nine-year-old Jennifer Brown Hyde and her older brother Jeff were...
Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Buried Alive | 2
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The kidnapped children and their bus driver are trapped underground in the back of a moving truck, a...
Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping | Vanished | 1
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1976, three masked gunmen hijack a school bus full of children in rural Chowchilla,...
Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | The Final Dive | 3
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Swede Momsen’s diving bell finally makes contact with the sailors trapped inside the USS Squalus. ...
Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Trapped | 2
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the USS Squalus trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy mounted an all-out rescue effort t...
Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Into the Deep | 1
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of May 23, 1939, a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy’s submarine, the USS Squalus, was doi...
Wildfire in Paradise | Evacuating Paradise with Beth Bowersox and Daniel Swain | 6
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CalFire dispatcher Beth Bowersox was on duty the morning the Camp Fire ignited. She joins Host Cassi...
Wildfire in Paradise | Paradise Lost with Lizzie Johnson | 5
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By the time it was contained in late November 2018, the Camp Fire had become the deadliest and most ...
Wildfire in Paradise | Containment | 4
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By mid-afternoon of November 8, 2018, the Camp Fire has largely moved through Paradise. Families sep...
Wildfire in Paradise | Engulfed | 3
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the fire rages and traffic on the main roads out of Paradise comes to a standstill, firefighters ...
Wildfire in Paradise | Bottleneck | 2
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a fast-moving wildfire closes in on their town, Paradise residents move to evacuate as quickly as...
Wildfire in Paradise | Ignition | 1
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the early morning of November 8, 2018, a faulty electrical line sparked a fire in the woods of Bu...
Crash in a Volcano | Thank You, Madam Pele with Chris Duddy | 3
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1992, Christopher Duddy was a young Hollywood cameraman assigned to shoot footage of an active vo...
Crash in a Volcano | Climbing Out | 2
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rescue workers search for the camera crew trapped inside Kilauea’s Pu’u O’o crater, but they’...
Crash in a Volcano | Into the Crater | 1
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In November 1992, a Hollywood camera crew soars above Hawaii’s Kīlauea, one of the world’s most...
Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | On the Set of Thirteen Lives with Rick Stanton | 5
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the Thai cave rescue captivated the world – spawning numerous books, documentaries, a...
Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Chamber Nine | 4
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have ano...
Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Risk | 3
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rescuers locate the 12 boys and their soccer coach deep inside the Tham Luang, but now they have ano...
Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Chaos | 2
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The boys on the soccer team struggle to stay alive inside the cave. Expert divers from around the wo...
Encore: Thai Cave Rescue | Lost | 1
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, twelve young soccer players and their coach are exploring a six-mile caving system in Thail...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Close Calls and Epic Adventures with Peter Stark | 6
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode, survival writer Peter Stark joins host Mike Corey for a wide-spanning conve...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Aftermath with Ric Conrad | 5
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Mount Hood tragedy remains the second deadliest mountaineering accident in North American histor...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Discovery | 4
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the search for the missing climbers enters its second day, rescuers redouble their efforts to fin...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Search and Rescue | 3
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Morning provides no relief for the Oregon Episcopal School climbers trapped without food or water hi...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Considered Lost | 2
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With night falling, the student climbers and their adult chaperones must take refuge in a cramped, f...
Trapped on Mount Hood | Whiteout | 1
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1986, a group of high school students and faculty embarked on a journey to the top of Mount H...
Meltdown at Fukushima | Ghost Towns with NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf | 5
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been more than decade since the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. But th...
Meltdown at Fukushima | The Devil's Chain Reaction | 4
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a week of unrelenting disasters—and with Tokyo itself now under threat—the managers of the...
Meltdown at Fukushima | Collapse | 3
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now contending with multiple damaged reactors, engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan...
Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Crippled by a tsunami of unprecedented scale, one of the reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuc...
Meltdown at Fukushima | Triple Disaster | 1
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2011, one of the largest earthquakes in history struck eastern Japan, followed by a massive...
Avalanche at Tunnel Creek | ‘Snow Fall’ with Adventure Journalist John Branch | 2
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When New York Times reporter John Branch first heard reports of an avalanche in Washington...
Avalanche at Tunnel Creek | Into the Backcountry | 1
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lured by the promise of fresh powder, more and more skiers and snowboarders are heading onto backcou...
Encore: Kidnapped in the Desert | Zero Hour | 3
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After months in captivity, Jessica Buchanan is battling a kidney infection, and her body’s on the ...
Encore: Kidnapped in the Desert | Big Money | 2
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As days and then weeks go by, Jessica tries to adjust to life as a hostage in the Somali desert, but...
Encore: Kidnapped in the Desert | Beyond the Green Line | 1
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 2011, humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan is traveling through the Somali desert...
Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | The Female Robinson Crusoe | 3
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lorne Knight has died, and Ada Blackjack finds herself completely alone on Wrangel Island. She’s l...
Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | Marooned | 2
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After one year on Wrangel Island, the five members of the expedition are alarmed to realize that the...
Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | A Desolate Land | 1
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1921, an expedition set out from Alaska for a remote island high in the Arctic Circle. With them ...
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Rediscovering Indy with Filmmaker Sara Vladic | 5
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Vladic was 13 when she first heard about USS Indianapolis while watching a World War II documen...
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Rescued | 4
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By sheer chance, an American bomber pilot on a routine test flight has spotted the survivors of U.S....
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Holding On | 3
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been two days since U.S.S. Indianapolis sank, and the number of survivors is dwindling. They’...