Season 1 Episodes
1. Alive in the Andes
A Fairchild FH-227 carrying five crew and forty passengers, many of them rugby players from Stella Maris College's "Old Christians" team, hits the side of a mountain (later named as Cerro Seler) in the Andes Mountains.
2. Ocean Emergency
The Camilla, a Finnish roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in Canadian waters, suffers a main engine failure.[1] With a storm approaching, the captain declares an emergency to the Canadian Coast Guard.
3. Osaka Train Wreck
A JR-207 type train, bound for Osaka on a commuter service, derails on a curve at a speed greater than the limit for that section of track. The two front carriages crash into an adjacent apartment block.
4. Earthquake Rapid Response
An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale rocks Pakistan. Two ten-storey blocks in the Margalla Towers, a luxury apartment complex in Islamabad, collapse.
5. Hurricane Hospital
The 300-bed Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana takes in patients from other hospitals during Hurricane Katrina. Relatives of the patients and others also arrive until there are over 2,000 people at the hospital.
6. Cave Rescue
Seven cavers become trapped underground after heavy rains on the surface cause water levels inside the Vitarelles caves in southern France to rise. The seven are not rescued until over a week later.
