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justin: I stepped on a sea urchin.

There's blood in the water.

Oh [bleep] what is that?

Whoa! A shark, right there.

Dani: Oh, my god.

Narrator: One man and one woman, both experienced survivalists,

are taking on the most punishing adventure of their lives.

[ gasps ] oh!

I want to go home.

Narrator: They have no water, no food, and no clothes.

Their task is to survive

on the barren island of andros in the west indies

for 21 days...

Dani: Get me the hell out of here.

Am I emotionally prepared? Maybe.

[ laughs ] that's the best answer I got for that.

My name's dani julien. 27 years old.

I am a nature-loving, granola-eating california girl.

I don't do this for a living,

but that doesn't mean that I'm not good at it

and that I can't hack it.

I can make fire.

I can build a pretty decent shelter.

I'm not scared to go play in the woods.

I personally would really like to know,

can I push myself to the point

where I honestly think I'm going to die and get past that?

I want to know.

I want to meet this fellow really bad.

Justin: My first impressions of everything I can see around me

is it's extremely thick and bushy.

I'm justin bullard from callahan, florida.

I'm happily married,

and I'm a firefighter/paramedic for the past eight years.

I think my occupation's gonna help me succeed out here

because I'm used to stressful situations.

I became a survivalist just by growing up in the woods,

and I turkey hunt, deer hunt, gator hunt -- everything.

[ squealing ]

if it's alive and can be caught, it's gonna be,

and it's gonna be eaten.

I do a lot of killing. [ laughs ]

it's like a minefield of rocks.

Wow.

Pine trees. I was expecting an island.

Looks like home to me.

I'm obsessed with survival stuff.

I love it. I breathe it.

I live it, and, also, I like being naked.

Ladies, it's cold outside, I promise, but let's go do this.

[ grunts ]

dani: I wore cute underwear today.

I'm pretty okay with being naked,

and I'm not worried about any romance.

But I'm hoping that my partner has a knowledge of hunting

because that's something that I'm not that familiar with.

I'm not much of a hunter.

All right. 21 days. No more clothes.

Here we go.

Justin: In my partner, I'm looking for someone who's mentally tough.

And above all else, I am a man.

I am from the south. We do it the old way.

I'm hoping my partner

has appreciation and respect for that.

Hi!

Hello. How are you? I'm good. How are you?

Excited. Yeah?

I'm justin. Hi, justin.

You want a hug? Yeah.

All right. All right.

She's just as naked as I am.

So she's got the same modesty issues or feelings that I have.

She just don't have to worry about certain things that I have to worry about.

What are your skills?

Do you think your skills and stuff are?

My skills? Primitive fire.

Good.

Shelter construction. Good.

I'm praying that you can hunt. Can you hunt?

I can hunt.

He can hunt. He can hunt! Awesome.

Narrator: Knowing they will need a blade

to carve weapons and build shelter,

dani has chosen to bring a machete.

Justin, lacking primitive fire skills,

has brought a fire starter.

Yay!

[ chuckling ] oh, yes. Excellent.

Well, that's all I got in my bag.

I have got...

Oh, you got the map.

[ singsong voice ] I've got a map.

All right. Let's see what's on the map.

Justin and dani were dropped off

along the western edge of the bermuda triangle

in the pine forest of andros island.

With the third-largest barrier reef in the world,

it's a breeding ground for venomous stingrays

and the menacing 10-foot caribbean reef shark

known for its sudden, terrifying acceleration.

Dani and justin will have to navigate along a harsh terrain

of razor-sharp limestone rock and dense vegetation

that contains toxic poisonwood trees,

conceals dangerous wild boar,

and the bahamian boa, which can reach lengths of up to 8 feet.

With limited sources of freshwater on the island,

trekking northeast will give the survivalists

an ample supply at one of the iconic blue holes of andros.

All right. So, this is where we are here.

Day 1 strategy -- locate water and resources.

I think we should head northeast here.

What part of california? I'm from santa cruz.

Oh, so you're a tree-hugging hippie?

[ laughs ] uh-huh.

Justin: I'm a redneck. She's a hippie. Whatever.

As long as she can be okay with me being a dumb hillbilly,

I'm okay with her being a hippie.

Hell, hippies are resourceful. They live off the land.

They like trees and bugs and [bleep] I mean, that's cool.

Justin: I was born in jacksonville,

raised there, stayed there, never go anywhere.

It wasn't until the last four or five years

I actually started traveling at all.

Just go on hunting trips and stuff.

Dani: That's cool, though.

That's basically what I live and breathe is hunting.

I mean, that's all I think about 24/7.

Right. Right, right.

Dani: He's a redneck,

and I am apparently a "tree-hugging hippie."

I think that we're pretty opposite.

Narrator: Justin and dani's ability to work together

is crucial to their success in completing this challenge.

A survival expert

with decades of experience teaching wilderness survival

has assessed justin and dani,

giving them a psr, or primitive survival rating.

Justin's experience as a firefighter

scores him very high in dealing with stress,

but his attitude about traditional male/female roles

may count against him with a free-spirited partner.

He scores a psr in the intermediate range of 7.6.

Dani has extensive survival skills,

but her lack of experience surviving in the wild for extended periods of time

could hurt her.

She's been rated just a few notches below justin at 7.4.

Our experts will re-evaluate their psrs

at the end of the 21-day challenge.

Ack! That hurts.

That's real sharp. Careful of that one.

This would hurt with flip-flops on.

[ laughs ] it's harsh.

It's definitely not what you think about

when you think you're coming to an island in the bahamas.

[ grunts ] it's all rock. There ain't no sand here.

It's like the freakin' surface of an asteroid.

So, you lived in california your whole life?

More or less.

In 2008, I was volunteering abroad in tanzania.

And my house was broken in, and I hid, but my roommate did not.

To make the long story very short,

I came out alive, and he did not.

Holy [bleep] huh.

And traditional therapy was not working.

Right.

So we decided

that some wilderness therapy might be effective,

and that's what started my interest in this kind of stuff.

What happened in tanzania

was the hardest thing that I have had to deal with.

But if I can look back on that, say, "wow, I got through that,"

that will play a part in getting through this challenge, for sure.

Justin: I don't know what's ahead of us. Hopefully the garden of eden.

This must be our... Our blue hole.

Oh, this is awesome.

This is great. Wow.

This is fantastic.

Narrator: The placid blue holes of andros

disguise the potential terror beneath the surface.

These mysterious, water-filled cave systems

can reach depths of 900 feet

and contain dangerous twisting, turning labyrinths

of maze-like passageways.

Dani: So we've gotten out to the blue hole,

and the rock here is so aggressive.

It rips at your soles, and we can't get anything else done

until we have shoes on our feet.

I am collecting some love vine.

This is gonna be the bottom of my shoe.

Not necessarily the sole.

The sole's gonna take a little bit longer.

Probably make that out of palmetto stock.

Try that out. See if it works.

Justin: Hell yeah.

Oh, it's like on a cloud. It's beautiful.

Awesome.

Narrator: The makeshift shoes offer a little relief

so they can turn their attention to building a shelter before nightfall.

Justin: We hit the ground running here.

Boom, boom, boom. Let's build a kick-ass shelter

so you're not out in the elements.

And you expend a lot of energy. So you're putting out sweat.

If you're not putting it back in,

it's basically a motor running hot.

That's very, very dangerous.

That's perfect.

Feel like we have shelter tonight.

Yeah.

There it is. Beautiful.

[ sighs ] how are we going to get water?

Narrator: The blue holes of andros are unique

because they are fed saltwater from the ocean,

but a layer of freshwater, supplied by rainfall,

sits on top.

This separation occurs because the saltwater is denser,

causing it to sink, leaving the freshwater on the surface.

How about this theory?

We fill up all these pocket holes we can.

That's been in full sun all day.

Right, and the u.V. Rays in this portion of the world

are so intense

that they're gonna kill everything that's in there.

I think that that's a really good idea.

The u.V. Light's more than enough to kill bacteria,

at least on the surface level.

I mean, hell, there's nothing more powerful than u.V. Light.

All right, I'll be the guinea pig on this theory.

Dani: Okay.

How's it taste?

Tastes like fish water.

The bad side of not drinking it is dying of dehydration.

Diarrhea is better than dying.

So maybe I'll get some dysentery, whatever,

something that'll run its course.

Drinking straight from the blue hole is a calculated risk,

and even sometimes boiling can be not 100%.

Very nice.

Put that away so I don't lose it.

Today was actually really successful.

We got a killer shelter started. Yeah, I'm excited.

And we've got our fire going.

Now, if I had me a cold beer and a guitar,

it would be all right. Yeah.

I already got a naked chick. I need a cold beer and a guitar.

[ laughs ]

this is the best camping trip I've ever been on.

It's about to be. [ laughs ]

[ insects chirping ]

yeah, I need to take a bath

'cause I've got mud in my butt crack.

Can't be having that on tv, yo.

[ laughs ] and that's really gross.

As much as I love having mud in my butt crack...

It's got to go.

Yeah. I think I might wash that out tomorrow.

[ rustling ]

what's that?

[ snorting ]

dani, you hear that?

Right over there.

The hell?

[ rustling, grunting ]

justin?

[ snorting ]

the hell was that?

Dani!

Oh [bleep]

[ snorting ]

justin: Right over there.

The hell?

[ grunting ]

the hell was that?

Dani!

Oh [bleep]

something came all the way up to our camp --

I mean, like, inside our camp, almost.

But as soon as I saw it, it was gone.

Dani: Something cruised through our camp at night,

and we don't really know what it is.

Justin went up to go looking for it.

Justin: Whatever that was last night,

I'm gonna find it, and I'm gonna kill it.

We're gonna go on a walkabout.

When you're an opportunistic hunter,

you keep moving and hopefully find something edible.

[ light grunts ]

you hear that?

[ grunting ]

that's a boar.

Looks good.

Oh, damn.

Oh, god.

Damn, that hurt. This sucks.

Oh, come on. Really?

Killing a pig is a pipe dream because they're much better

on this terrain than I am, and they have hooves.

I don't have hooves. I got fleshy baby feet.

Can't even walk around. It's pitiful.

I got on something over there.

I believe it was a pig.

It was a four-footed hooved creature.

Awesome. But there's no way.

You need a shotgun and a pair of jeans and some snake boots

to get through this stuff.

Dani: Really disappointing that justin didn't get that pig.

We could really use the protein.

Okay.

Narrator: Andros has the largest concentration of land crabs

in the bahamas.

Unlike marine crabs,

these mud dwellers burrow down 10 feet below the surface.

The claw from a large crab

could easily sever one of dani or justin's fingers.

Aah. Do not like sticking my hand in holes.

Dani: Catching crabs is the ultimate game of hide and go seek.

Kind of have to just tell yourself

to sack up and go for it

'cause if you don't, you don't have dinner.

God, that goes down so deep.

Oh, please don't find anything.

Please don't find anything. Please don't...

Not comfortable. Not comfortable at all.

I feel rocks.

[ gasps ] oh! He's in there.

Ow!

[bleep]

yahoo!

Ha!

I got a crab!

[ laughs ]

[bleep] you! I got you, you little [bleep]

mm!

One crab. Whatever.

Dani: If you've got a partner

that is negative or can't pull their own weight,

that can really bring you down,

and you might fail because of it.

"whatever"?

It's upsetting. It's really upsetting.

Justin wants so badly to be the provider,

but it seems that his primitive hunting skill set

is not up to par for what I was expecting.

It's my role as a man

to try to provide and...

[grunts]

hunter-gatherer...

I don't know.

Just feel like it's the right thing to do.

Narrator: The light of the full moon

brings out clouds of blood-sucking gnats.

Less than a quarter-inch long, millions of these tiny predators

use four sharp blades in their mouths

to tear at dani and justin's flesh.

Oh.

[ buzzing ]

dani: These gnats are killing me.

Justin: I don't know how these little creatures bite so damn hard.

Oh, god.

You don't understand how much something can annoy you.

I mean, we'd not go five seconds without having to swat a gnat.

You're constantly swatting, rubbing your legs. It's brutal.

Ow, they're eating us alive.

Dani: The bugs, of all things, are really starting to get to me --

not just physically, but mentally.

I started my time of the month yesterday.

So that's not helping.

So, right now, I am taking mud,

and I'm putting it on my skin to make a barrier.

Like, the mud is more of a psychological thing for me.

So that I feel like I'm doing something about it.

[ thunder rumbles ]

justin: Hoping that by burning this termites nest,

we can get rid of these gnats and mosquitoes and stuff.

Get, like, a big hunk to put in there.

Narrator: Burning the termite mound acts as a natural insect repellant.

The nest smolders slowly, producing a steady smoke,

and the termites give off a chemical called naphthalene,

the same chemical in mothballs, that repels gnats.

I can't handle that anymore.

[ buzzing ]

[ grunts ]

ow. This sucks.

I'm so over it.

Dani: Oh, my god.

[ sniffs ]

so far, nothing is working for the bugs.

No termite nest, no smoke, no fire.

She's having some kind of allergic reaction to these gnat bites,

and it's getting pretty bad.

Dani: It's not three or four bug bites.

My entire body is covered in bug bites.

I've peeled half of my skin off with my fingernails

at this point.

Justin: I was thinking that the blue hole was going to be a paradise,

but it's a living hell.

I don't think we can survive here.

There's not enough food to sustain 21 days of life.

This place is harsh. This place is bad.

Something's got to change. This is killing us here.

[ sighs ] I want to go to the beach.

Yeah, I do, too.

Oh, my god.

This is what we do all night long.

All night.

Something's got to be better than that.

Justin: This blue hole is a dead zone.

There's no fish. There's no life. You can't walk anywhere.

The razor rocks shred your feet up.

We built shoes out of vines, but they only last a half a day.

You got to build new shoes.

You can't live here.

We got to be in this dense patch.

Got to be.

Dani: Let's go. Get the hell out of here.

We know there's beach five miles away,

but that's five miles of pure hell.

Absolute jungle, razor rocks.

And we don't even know if there's any freshwater there.

Narrator: Weakened from having consumed only 200 calories between them

in the last three days

and unable to carry a supply of freshwater,

moving to the beach

is a calculated risk for justin and dani.

Justin: That sun's getting hotter by the second. Promise you that.

This has been the most treacherous walk I've been on

since I've been here. Yep.

We get all the way there and there's no water, I'm screwed.

Ocean's on the other side of those trees.

We just have to get across this swampland.

Whoa, yeah. There's rocks underneath there.

[ waves pounding in distance ]

I hear it. I hear it.

I see something better than a blue hole.

Freedom!

Open area!

Whoo!

Walked about five hours through the nastiest stuff imaginable.

Got to the beach here, and hey, it's better than where we were.

Awesome.

Goodbye, blue hole. Hello, paradise.

It's absolutely beautiful.

Bet there's all kinds of critters out here we can eat.

There's a lot of potential food here in the ocean.

Just got to be careful 'cause there's a lot of sharks.

Black tips, reef sharks, a lot of barracuda,

a lot of things that can hurt us.

Oh, my god. Look at this.

I mean, there is garbage everywhere.

The next 14 days, I mean, she can walk the beach as much as she wants, you know,

but right now, I think the focus should be rehydrating.

It's just me, though. So I'm gonna go do that.

Dani: I'm really, really happy to be here,

but this is probably one of the most beautiful places

I've ever been in my life, and it's covered in garbage.

[ voice breaking ] absolutely covered.

Narrator: Each day, a massive amount of trash from landfill

is deposited in the atlantic ocean.

Storms and ocean currents carry it toward the bahamian islands,

which act as a catchall for the tons of debris

that threaten wildlife and ecosystems.

Dani: Just [bleep] everywhere.

It's really sad.

But at this point, you know,

I'm gonna make the most of it and use as much as I can.

Justin: You really need three things to survive.

You need fire, you need a blade -- a steel blade --

and you need something to boil water in to get pure drinking water.

Well, luckily, there's a plethora of bottles and stuff on this beach

and semi-fresh pool of water down the way about 200 yards.

Got to get a good fire going and set these bottles around the fire.

It's likely to start boiling soon,

and I'm gonna chug them bastards.

Boiling it killed everything that's floating in it, so...

[ sighs ] god.

My partner lost our fire starter.

Without fire, we can't boil water.

We can't drink water.

Without fire, we're potentially dead.

Now it's serious. We have to keep fire going.

Narrator: The loss of the fire starter jeopardizes their survival.

Dani: Do you want me to help you collect sticks or anything?

Justin: We need to make sure this is going.

It's trying to go out.

Okay. You want me to watch it? I can watch it.

Please. Please don't [bleep] it up.

I will try not to. Please don't.

Justin: I'm a firefighter.

I'm an expert at putting fire out. [ chuckles ]

there's the irony in having to keep a single fire going.

Narrator: During the next two days,

dani and justin subsist on coconuts and sea snails.

A severe lack of protein is causing weakness, irritability,

and dangerously compromising their immune systems.

[ bird screeches ]

I'm gonna go fishing, see if there's any food out there.

Have fun.

Dani: He seems to think that it was my fault

that the fire starter disappeared.

So I'm gonna try and go fishing

and see if I can catch a fish or catch a lobster. I don't know.

Justin: Sitting here in the shelter.

Beautiful day out.

Babysitting the fire because we have to keep the same one going

from here till the end of our trip.

Yes! Justin, I got a fish! Ha!

She's hollering down here like she got her something.

Yes! I was babysitting the fire,

and she's out there walking around in the water.

So maybe she got her a fish.

Mm. Not bad for a chick with a pointy stick.

It's ridiculous.

I babysat today while she could go and have fun,

and the whole reason we have to fire watch now is 'cause of her.

Is the fire out? Just about.

Okay, well, I'm gonna go get on it then.

Might have to nurse it.

Dani: If he's gonna be at camp and I'm gonna be out hunting,

he needs to make sure that that fire's going.

I was excited.

You'd think that if I brought home dinner,

somebody would be, like, "wow. Thanks. That's awesome.

Good for you."

you know? Something.

Anything.

Good god. Just come off.

Justin: I'm supposed to be the one hunting.

And pocahontas here, she ended up sticking a fish, a snapper.

Good for her.

[ sighs ]

I feel bad, but I don't.

I worked my ass off to be here and..I went out and I did this.

I did this. I'm proud of myself.

We were doing really good for the first week,

and I don't know where his head's at right now.

You want some fish?

Justin: I think I'm good right now.

[ grunts ]

the other half is for you. So...

You need that more than I do.

He did not want any of my fish.

Whether that be for pride reasons or otherwise,

more fish for me.

Justin: Dani -- she has a huge skill set

and a huge knowledge base for survival,

but in the south, the man's the head of the household.

The woman takes care of the dinner and the clothes.

My papa never made his own plate of food.

Till the day he died, granny always cooked his food,

made it for him, and washed his dishes.

Dani: He's from the south,

and I don't even really know how they do it in the south.

It's very different from how I do it, apparently.

Justin: I can't stand this bad marriage relationship.

I can't do it.

I want to go home.

Justin: In the south, the man's the head of the household.

The woman takes care of the dinner and the clothes,

and obviously, dani's from a different mind-set.

Dani: It kind of goes into the realm of,

"I'm the man, you're the woman.

This is what I do, and that's what you do,"

which is not the case where I come from.

I can go hunt. I can bring home food.

I can be the breadwinner, so to speak.

We do need to have an outright discussion today.

I understand that you,

you know, you want to be the provider

and you want to be the hero and all that business,

but I'm so capable of so many things,

and I have a lot of talents.

I can kill a fish.

It's just --

if you could say thanks if I bring home food and eat it.

Understood. It's nothing about you bringing fish home,

and...

It's not even just the fish, though.

It's like saying in a way to me, like,

"oh, you're gonna need it more than I do,"

when, you know, we both need it.

My other thing --

and this is actually a lot harder to bring up

just 'cause I don't know how you're going to respond to this...

...But I do feel like I deserve an answer.

Okay.

So, your skills, your primitive skills coming into this.

Right.

You said you had primitive hunting skills.

Yes.

I have not seen... A lot of that.

Were you really prepared coming into this situation?

Yes. All right.

There wasn't a lot of animals to hunt over there.

There wasn't a lot of opportunity,

and for opportunity for hunting here,

there hasn't been any

because we've only been here for two days,

and the only time that was really able to go out and hunt,

you were down there, hunting.

Do you see that?

I was here with the fire, which I figured we'd have our turns.

Anything else?

Nope, that's really all that I had to say for now.

We are in a relationship right now.

After that, I don't care what you think of me

or if you ever talk to me again or anything,

but right now, we have to get along.

Justin: The reason she lives in california

and the reason I live where I live --

it was meant to be that way.

Me and dani are pretty much quiet around each other now.

We don't really talk very much anymore.

You can't be with anybody for 21 days straight

every single waking second and every sleeping second

and not have problems.

That's impossible.

Dani: The trauma of losing a friend in tanzania

and learning to get through all of that

has helped me in this situation.

I've used some of those tools to push through

some of the harder mental phases of this challenge.

Justin: Looking pretty ominous. That's definitely rain.

Wind's picking up, and it's definitely rain over there, too.

[ thunder rumbles ]

[ rainfall ]

keep me a fire going for 12 days is quite a task.

That means you can't go out

and venture, hunt, fish, nothing like that.

Somebody's always got to be babysitting the fire.

If it gets windy, if it rains.

I don't care what kind of shelter you got the fire under.

If it monsoons out here, the fire's gonna be out.

Keep feeding that.

Narrator: For two weeks, a severe lack of food

has caused justin and dani's bodies to deplete

the fat reserves they had prior to coming into this challenge.

The average person eats about 2,000 calories per day.

Dani and justin have barely consumed

2,000 calories per week.

With the daunting task

of a two-mile raft trek to their extraction approaching,

their bodies are now consuming muscle for vital energy,

making them feel weak and disoriented.

Justin: Dani has no energy to do anything right now.

She's starting to look emaciated now.

She just moves real slow, very, very weak.

I'm a firefighter.

Even when you hate your guy next to you,

you still got to be a team player,

pull him out when you need to.

Everybody's got to help everybody.

I realize how tired my body is becoming

and how drained I am right now.

Justin: We have an end goal to meet.

And we both need to be adults,

and we still have to work together

when it comes down to it, set our differences aside,

and if we're gonna have hope

of making it to the extraction point, to day 21,

I need to get us some food.

[ hissing ]

oh, my god.

Look at that.

Whoa. That's close.

That's a boa.

I just walked up here, and I look on the ground.

There's a 4 1/2-foot snake.

Narrator: The bahamian boa kills

by wrapping its powerful body around its prey to suffocate it.

When the prey is dead, the boa will swallow it whole.

I can eat him.

I have to kill this snake. That's protein. That's life.

If we're gonna make it to the extraction point,

we need this food.

[ hissing ]

this has been the most treacherous walk I've been on

since I've been here.

Narrator: Before they began their 21-day survival challenge,

dani and justin were both given a primitive survival rating.

Dani has been resourceful in her attempts at finding food...

Ha! I got you, you little [bleep]

...Whereas justin's hunting failures

have forced a wedge between him and his partner.

Were you really prepared coming into this situation?

Their overall performance will be re-evaluated

at the end of the challenge,

and their psrs will be adjusted accordingly.

[ hissing ]

justin: I've got to kill this snake if we're gonna make it to the extraction point.

We need this food.

Ah!

There he is.

I actually killed something with my bare hands and a stick.

Made me feel like I've accomplished something today.

Dani!

Are you hungry? Yes.

Dani: [ chuckles ] pretty good snake.

Dani: He is happier when he's hunter-gatherer,

and if both of us are in a good place,

it's a lot easier to be around each other.

It's a relief to have him back into justin mode.

Dani: This is a good kill. Good job.

Hot.

It's good.

Justin: I got to kill something and eat it.

Yeah, it made me feel better.

Restored my manhood in camp.

It's somewhat buoyant.

It definitely floats good enough for me,

and we'll have a bunch of stuff underneath it and around it

to help.

So, you know, as long as we got that platform, it's perfect.

Narrator: Filled with energy from their first substantial meal in almost three weeks,

justin and dani begin building a raft

that will get them to their extraction point.

Going down here to get

a giant hunk of styrofoam that I saw yesterday.

A bunch of litter and seat cushions and everything.

Up and down the coast here.

There's our way out of here.

There are predators out there. I've seen 'em.

Seen some sharks cruising the reef,

but we'll just have to see who's the bigger man, me or the shark.

There are reef sharks. There are black tips.

There are makos because the water is 6,000 foot deep.

Dani: Our raft is ready to go. I'm ready to go home.

This has been an incredible experience,

but I think it's time to take off.

[ birds screeching ]

morning of day 21.

Dani: You know, there's definitely sea urchins

and fire coral out there.

I'm not too keen on going out in shark-infested waters

with bloody feet.

Narrator: To reach their extraction, dani and justin

will have to paddle their raft past the coral reef,

a breeding ground for venomous stingrays

and the caribbean reef shark,

which has no instinctive fear of humans.

If they can make it to deep water two miles off shore,

they will be picked up by a seaplane.

This is almost as much fun

as walking through the swamp on the way to the beach.

Yeah, no kidding.

Ohh.

Oh.

Check your foot. You all right?

I can feel it.

I stepped on a sea urchin.

There's blood in the water.

What is that?

Holy [bleep]

dani: Oh, my god. Is that a shark?

Whoa! A shark, right there.

Go.

Sharks have a highly developed sense of smell.

They can detect one drop of blood

in a million drops of water.

There's another one.

Justin! Kick faster.

[ plane approaching ]

yee-haw!

[ cheers ]

dani: That was the most amazing relief I have ever felt in my life.

Justin: I wanted to test myself,

and, quite frankly, I wanted to do something

that not many people in the world are gonna be able to say,

"hey, I've done that," and I've done it.

[ chuckles ]

dani and I had our differences, but we found out

that two opposites could work well together and be friends.

Whoo!

Dani: Looking back on the experience,

I can say that I see

a level of empowerment that I hadn't seen before.

I can say to myself, "I have done that."

turns out, I'm capable of a lot.

21 days.

It's not a question of whether or not women can handle this.

It was really more a question of, "am I woman enough?"

narrator: After 21 days on andros island,

dani and justin, although well-prepared,

have been mentally and physically tested

more than they ever imagined.

Dani lost a total of 15 pounds

and justin 28 pounds.

Their psrs were reassessed

based on how they performed individually and as a team.

Initially, justin's primitive hunting skills

were not strong enough

to cope with an extreme survival situation,

causing tension between him and dani.

But by not letting his emotions prevent him from stepping up,

he re-energized the team when they needed it most.

Dani's carelessness with the fire starter

jeopardized their survival chances,

but making up for her mistake by really pushing

her determination and primitive skills,

she proved to be an invaluable asset to the team.

This bring dani's psr up to a near expert rating at 8.1,

and justin improves to a solid intermediate 7.8,

proving once again the incredible teamwork it takes

to survive naked and afraid.

This is real, raw survival. Don't think any different.