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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • November 28, 2010
    • Travel Channel

    Dream vacations suddenly erupt into nightmares. A vacationer on board a flight from Los Angeles to New York has his home video camera rolling as he and the rest of the panicked passengers brace themselves for an emergency landing.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • December 5, 2010
    • Travel Channel

    A popular tourist attraction becomes a horror show when a massive alligator clamps down on his handlers right arm and spirals into a death roll.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • December 19, 2010
    • Travel Channel

    An air show in Staten Island, New York turns a day in the park into sheer panic. A military plane gets too close to the ground splintering huge trees and sending spectators flying.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • December 26, 2010
    • Travel Channel

    A speeding boat races at a group of snorkelers, a skydiver's chute is wrapped around the plane's tail, a shark traps two divers in a cage and a goat traps two tourists in their car.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • January 2, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A massive whale jumps out of the water and crashes on board the deck of a small sail boat. The mast is splintered and the couple on board is buried. See what happens next.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • January 9, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A family on vacation finds itself in the direct path of a rescue helicopter out of control. A lazy day at the lake turns to sheer terror when a rope swing breaks and leaves a girl unconscious and bleeding

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • January 16, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    An air show becomes a horror show when a fighter jet plummets from the sky and explodes right in front of a terrified family. A massive wave capsizes a sailboat trapping a young family

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    • January 23, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A family road trip takes a terrifying detour when a forest fire sweeps across the highway, trapping them inside their car. A freak accident during a bungee jump leaves a man wedged under water and fighting for his life.

  • S01E09 Episode 9

    • January 30, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A mom's worst nightmare comes true when her van flips and explodes on the way home from a fair, trapping her child inside the raging fire. A college student's day of fun in the snow becomes a chilling fight for her life.

  • S01E10 Episode 10

    • February 13, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A day of sun and fun at the beach turns into sheer panic when a harrier jet falls out of the sky and crashes into the ocean. A cliff diving trip goes horribly wrong when a man leaps before he looks and hits rock bottom.

  • S01E11 Episode 11

    • March 6, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A 7 person world-record bungee jump goes horribly wrong when a rope pins one man against the basket, nearly cutting him in half. An angry 5-ton elephant plows head-on into a jeep full of tourists on safari.

  • S01E12 Episode 12

    • March 13, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A raging bull escapes from a rodeo and plows over an unsuspecting female fan in a parking lot. A beautiful skier takes a terrifying tumble down a mountain. Plus a shark feeding frenzy erupts and two divers are the bait.

  • S01E13 Episode 13

    • November 6, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A family vacation turns to terror when a gator chomps down on the face of a teenage girl. A dirt bike rider lands on his brother-in-law. A grandmothers very first skydive could be her last.

  • S01E14 Episode 14

    • November 13, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A teenagers' jump for joy at a summer swimming hole erupts into cries for help when he slips and crashes onto the rocks twenty feet down. And locusts swarm a family on vacation turning the summer sky black.

  • S01E15 Episode 15

    • November 20, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    It's the story you haven't heard about the other heroes who survived "The Miracle on the Hudson". And a pilot whale grabs a diver who has nothing but fins and a snorkel, and the whale is heading straight to the bottom of the sea.

  • S01E16 Episode 16

    • November 27, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A man rolls his jeep down a mountain as his wife catches it on tape. And vacationers run for cover as a homemade chopper crashes and explodes into tiny pieces. Gas is leaking and the pilot and his wife are trapped inside.

  • S01E17 Episode 17

    • December 4, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    The lion breaks away from his trainer, grabs the TV host by the leg, and then goes for the throat. A father who travels to see his son compete in a dirt bike race becomes and eyewitness to tragedy on the track.

  • S01E18 Episode 18

    • December 11, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A stealth fighter plane breaks into pieces and massive pieces of metal rain down as families in a park run for cover. A skier tries to beat an avalanche downhill and loses. Plus a raging bull at a rodeo flies into the stands.

  • S01E19 Episode 19

    • December 18, 2011
    • Travel Channel

    A new bride watches as her groom takes a fifty-foot jump on a motorcycle and comes crashing down. His body is a twisted heap, and her heart is broken, Tourists rush to the rescue as a seasoned helicopter pilot slams to earth.

  • S01E20 Episode 20

    • January 1, 2012
    • Travel Channel

    A vacation of a lifetime for two childhood friends who dreamed of running with the bulls in Pamplona turns tragic when one of them slips and gets gored. The bull's horn spears his hip and sends him flying.

  • S01E21 Episode 21

    • January 5, 2012
    • Travel Channel

    A 4th of July celebration turns tragic when an escape artist performing for hundreds of vacationers erupts into a fireball. Then a Honduras vacation turns to terror when a monkey goes mad and sinks his teeth into a teenaged boy.

  • S01E22 Episode 22

    • January 12, 2012
    • Travel Channel

    A snowboarder with a helmet camera falls face first in a tree-well 20 ft deep, and now he's upside down, slowly being suffocated by the snow. He can't get out by himself and his cell phone is his only hope.

  • S01E23 Episode 23

    • January 19, 2012
    • Travel Channel

    A couple vacationing in Hawaii is taking in the breathtaking beauty when a huge wave hits and wipes them out. Hugh Alexander is washed into a whirlpool of powerful tides, and now he's being battered into the jagged rocks.

  • S01E24 Episode 24

    • January 26, 2012
    • Travel Channel

    A small plane loses its only engine and plummets into a small lake in Michigan full of people on vacation. There are three people on board and several in the water.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Episode One

    • March 6, 2012

    A family vacation in Mexico turns to terror when a son slams into a building while parasailing. A father-son ski-trip in the Swiss Alps becomes heartache when the father slams into a steel gate.

  • S02E02 Episode Two

    • March 13, 2012

    A cross-country trip turns into a race for survival as police and medical personnel attempt to save the life of a heart attack victim. Friends on a ski-trip watch helplessly as one of their own collides face first into a tree.

  • S02E03 Episode Three

    • March 20, 2012

    A ski-trip becomes a race against the clock as a skier is caught in an avalanche and buried under six feet of snow. A kayaker's wedged as rescuers try to dislodge him from the watery tomb. A trip to Thailand turns into an inferno.

  • S02E04 Episode Four

    • March 27, 2012

    Pieter Boschoff and Jerry Lohman have traveled to Gaansbai, South Africa. They have come with one goal in mind: to cage-dive in the region's infamous shark infested waters.

  • S02E05 Episode Five

    • April 7, 2012

    A skydiving vacation turns to catastrophe when a typical landing ends in agony, a ski-trip to Switzerland becomes a life or death situation and a skateboard race turns into a stampede for survival.

  • S02E06 Episode Six

    • April 14, 2012

    A trip to the zoo turns into a living nightmare when a woman jumps into the polar bear exhibit.

  • S02E07 Episode Seven

    • April 21, 2012

    A mountain climbing vacation turns catastrophic when a rescue chopper sent to pick up stranded hikers crashes and rolls down a mountainside.

  • S02E08 Episode Eight

    • April 28, 2012

    A show turns terrifying when a gator's jaws snap shut on the wrestler's head, and a day at the zoo becomes a nightmare when a child falls into the gorilla exhibit.

  • S02E09 Episode Nine

    • May 5, 2012

    Bungee jumping turns to total terror when the line snaps and sends a girl crashing down into a crocodile-infested river. Then, a family's tropical vacation ends in calamity after their plane crashes upside-down into the Caribbean.

  • S02E10 Episode Ten

    • May 19, 2012

    A woman's skydiving trip ends horribly when her cameraman crashes while attempting to land. Then, two girls watch in horror as a flash flood washes their mother away during a camping trip.

  • S02E11 Episode Eleven

    • May 26, 2012

    A family trip to the circus turns to horror when a high-flying motorcycle stunt ends disastrously. Then, a 70-year-old tourist at Yellowstone is cornered and hurled into the air by a rampaging bison.

  • S02E12 Episode Twelve

    • June 2, 2012

    Visitors at a zoo are stunned when a man enters the lion enclosure and is face-to-face with ferocious felines. Then, an African safari turns into a race against time as floodwaters threaten to take out trucks loaded with tourists.