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- John Tucker builds a bugout vehicle, turning bee hives into a mobile apiary with scythed wheels; Bret and Shane Maggio construct a sniper tower with a zip line, allowing for a quick escape.
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- Michael Patrick Douglas, a man of the land in Maine, shows off homesteading techniques he believes will become necessary due to overpopulation; Larry Hall turns an underground missile silo into a bunker to make sure his family is safe in any event; Becky Brown is making sure she and others are ready for martial law.
Highlights: Family survival - Home security - Primitive tools and weapons — Sniper skills — Underground bunkers (en)
- John Major has moved his family to Idaho for a more natural lifestyle; Janet Spencer, an author in Montana, decided because of her location to prepare for refugees fleeing from disasters in larger nearby cities; Jack & Jackie Jobe, though new to prepping, have made great progress in preparing for their future survival.
Highlights: Edible insects - Superfood - Dirty bomb - Survival Seedbanks — Food storage (en)
- Bruce Beach, a lifelong prepper, is focused on nuclear war and saving children in his 42 underground buses; Jeremy and Kelly, concerned parents in Salt Lake City, are preparing for the collapse of society due to peak oil; Bradford Frank of San Diego works around the clock in preparation for a pandemic that could end life as we know it.
Highlights: Ark Two Shelter - Peak oil - Water Resources — Antibiotics — Bug-out Vehicle - Bird Flu (en)
- Texas prepper "Mr. Wayne" bases his doomsday fears on a Chinese financial takeover and has prepared many ways to survive such events; John & Cristina Sellers are hardworking Americans who want to protect what they have; Jason & Tanya have done their homework on how life and prepping can happen on a budget.
Highlights: Underground Storage — Reloading bullets - Explosives - Bartering - Gold panning (en)
- Jay Blevins is a former law enforcement officer who is prepping with his family and neighbors for a global economic collapse; Brian Murdock and his Colombian wife-to-be Tatiana are preparing to relocate from suburban Somerville, Massachusetts, to somewhere in Upstate New York; Indiana preppers Bryan and Lacey May are ready for an earthquake along the New Madrid Fault Line, stockpiling silver, gold, food, and other barter and installing a battery backup to their wind and solar power generators.
Highlights: Social unrest - Economic crisis - Self-defense - Homemade Pepper spray (en)
- Barry, Pink and Cole have the ultimate urban underground bunker right in their garage; Steve Pace, a hometown survivalist, is ready to take on long-term electric failure; Carolina resident Laura Kunzie is preparing for a massive airborne flu outbreak.
Highlights: Bunkers — Off-Grid Sanitation — Bug out - EMP - Hillbilly faraday cage - Bird Flu - Quarantine (en)
- Jason Beacham is a 15-year-old boy who has been prepping for economic collapse since age 11; Big Al is a Tennessee musician who is prepping for a Russian nuclear attack with a secret mountainous bug-out location; former racer Braxton Southwick of Salt Lake City is prepping for a biological terrorist attack.
Highlights: Economic collapse - Bioterrorism (en)
- Two Tennessee men named David are both getting ready for a massive earthquake along the New Madrid Fault: David Mays is building a fleet of drones to help him survive in West Tennessee, while David Nash builds a 14-ton geodesic shelter out of concrete in Middle Tennessee.
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- Highlights: aquaponics, quad (en)
- This episode was a recap episode of Season 2. (en)
- Jeff Bushaw plans to fly his family to safety following the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano; Allen and Franco have built sustainable food production systems in preparation for worldwide food shortages; John Adrain has invented numerous security gadgets to turn his estate into a technological fortress safe from a wide range of disasters.
Highlights: Yellowstone Supervolcano - Global food crisis - Home automation - Aquaponics (en)
- Brad and his family are preparing to survive an economic collapse in their backyard bunker; in Kansas, Kevin Barber has devised a plan to escape economic collapse by permanently settling down in Costa Rica. (en)
- David Sarti, a YouTube "firearms instructor" and self-taught survivalist, is prepared for an electrical grid failure; Kellene Bishop of Utah has stocked only the finest gourmet survival foods in preparation for financial collapse; Kathy Harrison, "the Doris Day of Doom", has prepared her local community for a New Madrid earthquake; Dennis Evers brings the family together to survive global chaos caused by hyperinflation.
Highlights: EMP Information - Creative emergency cooking — Handguns - Self Defense - Self sufficiency — Community survival (en)
- Tim Ralston — The manufacturer of a survival tool manufacturer, the Crovel, loses part of a thumb during firearms practice for the show; Jason Charles, a New York City fireman-turned-prepper, demonstrates urban survival skills; Jules Dervaes is preparing for the collapse of the industrial food system; Pat Brabble insists on surviving hyperinflation by planning ahead.
Highlights: GMO information — Shooting Accident - Bug-out bag - Close combat skills - Water storage - MREs - Urban agriculture (en)
- Doug Huffman is prepared, teaching techniques for surviving a second depression caused by America's massive debts.; Dianne and Greg Rogers, dedicated parents in Canada, are concerned with future events affecting their home life; Ed and Dianna Peden of Topeka, Kansas, are preparing to survive underground in their decommissioned Atlas missile silo when doomsday arrives.
Highlights: Fish, vegetable, chicken and rabbit production - Root cellar - Camouflage - Small arms (en)
- Bob Kay, a nutritional scientist in Southern California, is prepping for environmental destruction due to massive earthquakes; politician Joshua Wander is preparing for a terrorist attack, teaching others about prepping and stocking up kosher foods ; Ryan Croft is prepping for a global financial crisis by cultivating alternative food sources like spirulina and earthworms.
Highlights: Earthquake - Terrorist attack - Xeriscaping - Edible insects (en)
- Lucas Cameron, a farmer living in Tennessee, is joined by his friends and family in preparing for a New Madrid earthquake and the civil unrest that might follow; Kevin O'Brien, first mentioned in Season 1, has recently moved out and joined them; near Denver Colorado, Snake Blocker is preparing to survive like his ancestors, the Apache tribe, by living off the land in the event of a financial collapse. (en)
- Paul Range and friends prepare for a polar shift; in California, Christopher Nyerges demonstrates urban jungle survival skills to be used in the event of a massive earthquake; deep in the heart of Houston, Texas, Megan Hurwitt hopes to survive on her own and escape to Mexico after the Middle East suddenly cuts off its oil exports.
Highlights: Supplies — Shipping container homes - Bug-out - Wild edible plants - Firearms - Urban survival (en)
- Steve works with a stern hand to prep his family for potential threats; South Carolinian David Appleton is a comedian, but the idea of a devastating earthquake is no joke to him; David's job doesn't always pay the bills, so he must dumpster dive to find supplies to make a DIY camouflage net to hide his preparations. (en)
- Tracy Foutch adds armor to a school bus to create a bugout vehicle; Dan Rojas uses a Fresnel lens scavenged from an old rear-projection TV to focus sunlight, sterilize water via distillation, and cook meat.
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- Rob builds a system of elaborate booby traps around his home near Dallas; Greg builds a near-invisible bugout location in the woods.
Highlights: booby traps, camouflage (en)
- Brent has built a medieval castle and is teaching his children and grandchildren new tactics of defense and survival because he fears an Electromagnetic Pulse, caused by a nuclear detonation, will cripple the national power lines, possibly forever ; in Bear Grass, North Carolina, Derek Price also fears an EMP and is using his privately owned amusement park, Deadwood, to help himself, his friends, and his family survive. (en)
- National Geographic brings the year together by looking at how some people have prepared in similar ways and reminds viewers that even a little emergency preparation is better than none.
Highlights: Underground bunkers — Food storage — Water — Firearms — Defense — Emergency Transportation (en)
- Kevin lives in eastern Washington and is prepping his family for a volcanic eruption using multiple bug-out vehicles; Captain Bill Simpson has built a bunker sailboat made mostly of iron so that he can retreat out to sea in case a massive solar flare sends an Electromagnetic Pulse that damages modern technology. (en)
- Martin Colvill lives on the road with his wife as a "survival trucker" and looks to prepare for the upcoming economic collapse; Donna Nash is prepared to quarantine all her family members to protect against a global pandemic; Kevin O'Brien is concerned about losing his home due to rising sea levels created by global warming or a sudden polar shift.
Highlights: Weapons training — Security systems - Home defense - Polar Shift (en)
- Freda, a modern-day descendant of the Hatfield Clan, is living in the woods of Virginia and preparing to survive an Electromagnetic Pulse and ensuing civil uprisings and martial law; in Oregon, Mike Adams, a restaurant owner, is readying himself and his family for a nationwide terrorist takeover. (en)
- For Mike Mester, civil unrest is just around the corner and he aims to get everyone ready; Colorado computer programmer Preston White has collected over 11,200 types of seeds and plans for biosphere living in a Fukushima-irradiated future while his friends provide supportive help; Riley Cook spends his days working close to home and with the prepper society building underground structures.
Highlights: Nuclear disaster information — Biospheres - Seedbank - Animals for defense — Fuel storage - Food storage - Alternative fuel resources — Underground bunkers (en)
- Lindsay, a radio host and a supporter of the back-to-the-land movement, together with her family and friends, are ready for a total failure of the agricultural and food system; Jim D and his daughter, who have a "bug-out vehicle" called The Behemoth, are preparing for a cyber-terrorist attack which can shut down today's technology and power grid. (en)
- Craig Compeau, a third-generation Alaskan who is prepping for a government takeover, has set up a remote prefabricated InterShelter dome in the Alaskan wilderness; 44-year-old adventurer David Lakota is depending on his intuition, his connection to nature, and the mountainous terrain of Hawaii to survive a giant tsunami; David and his girlfriend Rachaelle bug out with minimal supplies from the Kalalau Valley on Kauai to the 4000-foot-high plateaus above.
Highlights: Moose hunting - Edible wild plants - Barefoot hiking (en)
- Tyler Smith, the leader of a group calling themselves the "Marauders," describes his plans to commit armed robbery; he was later arrested and booked on two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm because he was a previously convicted child sex offender and was legally barred from possessing firearms. Asked for comment on Smith’s arrest, National Geographic issued a statement: "We are aware of the arrest and have decided not to air this episode until all legal matters are sorted out"; the episode was eventually aired.
Highlights: Body armor, Costa Rica (en)
- Bryan Smith, remembering his eventful past, has been prepping for an economic collapse; Christine has been using her skills, organization, and strictness to prepare for a mega-tsunami caused by the potential collapse of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which could wipe out the East Coast of the United States. (en)
- The episode recaps the six highest-scoring preppers of the first two seasons: 6) John Adrain ; 5) Bryan Smith ; 4) Craig Compeau ; 3) Cpt. Bill Simpson ; 2) "The Colony" , and 1) Paul Range and Gloria Haswell .
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