Outside Podcast14 Jun 2016

Science of Survival: Under Pressure

When you’re stuck underwater in a submarine, the number of ways you can die is long and varied—crushing, burning, asphyxiation, exploding, the list goes on and on. Escaping alive requires maintaining calm and making all the right choices. Which makes it all the more surprising that one of the first known submarine survival stories—which includes a 19th century Prussian carpenter and a military crew—involves the first-known undersea fistfight.

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Science of Survival BONUS: Whatever Happens, Happens

One of the most famous accidents in wingsuit history.

26 Apr 20167min

Science of Survival: Struck by Lightning

Most of the time, when lightning makes the news, it’s because of an outlandish happening, seemingly too strange to be true. Like the park ranger who was struck seven times. Or the survivor who also wo...

11 Apr 201642min

Science of Survival: Frozen Alive

This thrilling re-creation of the classic hypothermia feature by Peter Stark brings the listener through a series of plausible mishaps on a bitterly cold night: a car accident on a lonely road, a brok...

24 Mar 201630min