Outside Corpus Christi, Texas, Jeremy Sutcliffe is working in his garden when a rattlesnake bite puts him on the brink of death; while spearfishing in the Bahamas, Kent Bonde is blindsided by a bull shark that tears the calf muscle from his leg.

Bob Legasa is hunting in Montana and what he thinks is a bluff charge from a grizzly bear is, in fact, a near-lethal attack; while canoeing in Zimbabwe, Kristen Yaldor is thrown into the water and finds herself in the jaws of a hippopotamus.