A British student is lost and starving in the remote Turkish mountains. His parents desperately wait to discover if he's alive for eight agonising days. An amateur racing driver loses control at high speed during a competition, sending his car hurtling down a ditch.

Five fishermen are swept off their sinking ship into the vast Atlantic Ocean as a helicopter winchman desperately tries to pluck them from the sea. A 999 call records the moment a petrified 11-year-old boy performs CPR on his motionless dad.