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National Park After Dark

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When a rafting trip goes wrong deep in the remote wilderness of Alaska, a father and son fight for their lives. With limited supplies, the pair have to battle the elements, wildlife and themselves in order to survive.

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Sources I Shouldn’t Be Alive Season 2 Episode 3, WV Emergency Management , NPS, NPS History, Travel Alaska, National Geographic, The Oklahoman, Business Insider, LA Times, Fly Coyote

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0:00.0	There are certain nuggets of knowledge most of us learn at some point early on in our lives,
0:07.6	but looking back we can't really pinpoint precisely when and from whom we learn them from.
0:13.0	For instance, we all know not to drink salt water
0:16.0	and that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
0:20.0	We all also tend to collectively know the rules of three regardless of our affinity for outdoor adventure
0:27.0	that generally go like this. You can survive for three minutes without oxygen, three hours without shelter, three days without water,
0:36.6	and three weeks without food.
0:39.1	What is also generally known, regardless of your attendance or lack thereof in a wilderness survival course is survival priorities.
0:47.3	In such a situation, building a fire and a shelter, providing first aid when needed,
0:52.1	an acquisition of clean water are amongst the top
0:55.1	to-do's. But there are two other rules of the game we all know to be true. Stick together and stay put.
1:02.0	But what if those aren't options? What if the time comes
1:06.0	when you must break the rules if you have any hope of winning the game? A game that has your life
1:11.9	and the lives of those you love on the line.
1:15.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. You're going to. A survival story finally I'm so excited. I've been waiting. We've all been waiting honestly.
1:45.8	Well I hope this delivers. It's a good one. I got the inspiration from one of the best shows out there. one of the I shouldn't be alive series.
1:56.0	I love that show and I've seen it.
1:58.0	Yeah, it's season two so it's early on.
2:02.0	I actually have no idea how many seasons there are of this, because there's so many,
2:06.2	there's like, I should be, I should have been prey, I shouldn't be alive, I survived, like there's so many...
2:11.3	I survived, like there's so many... I survived as like, oh, that's such a good binge show. How do you watch this show now? Like how do you stream it?
2:18.4	This particular one the entire episode was on YouTube. Oh cool. Yeah. I remember when I used to watch I survived I
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