Season 1

A snowmobile accident victim lives after his heart stops in an icy lake. A car crash victim survives after her life support is terminated. A patient recalls a surgical procedure in detail after surgeons have induced her clinical death. Learn how they defied medical convention to come back from the dead. A forensic inquest explores these death-defying stories - only science can unlock the mystery.

Incredible stories from the survivors of lightning strikes including a golfer whose heart stops on the links, and a tobogganer who finds a chain embedded in their neck during a freak winter storm.

A cross country skier is caught in an avalanche and buried six feet under the snow. A construction worker is buried for 16 hours under five feet of dirt by a trench cave in. A diver is trapped in a small air pocket more than one thousand feet inside an underwater cave. They all survived. Explore the science behind these unbelievable events that seem to be against all odds.

Incredible stories with extraordinary odds of survival, from the racing driver who loses both legs in a 200-mile-an-hour crash to the 13-year-old boy internally decapitated when hit by a car.

Incredible stories of survival, from the skydiver whose parachute fails to open before she falls into a parking lot at 30mph to the flight attendant who plunges 30,000 feet from an exploded jetliner.

Incredible stories of survival, from the climber who is crushed when a half-ton boulder lands on top of him to the firefighter pinned under flaming debris and the man trapped under his 1.5 ton car.