SOS: How to Survive

Love the insight and knowledge Creek gives in the show! Creek has gotten me to put " get home bags" in each of my cars and showed my Wife what is in it and how to use them.

I keep hoping The Weather Channel or another station will pick this show up again and let us learn more from Creek Stewart! Creek gives Great information and easy to follow and learn instructions on how to not only survive but thrive in what could be deadly situations!

I have gotten my whole family into watching this show and others for just in case emergencies. We are not hard core preppers but we are prepared and constantly learning and look forward to seeing new episodes of SOS: How To Survive!

True-life adventure, drama, and back-woods wisdom come together in this unique series. Not odd in a bad way, but perhaps niche. Creek is one-fo-a-kind and is excellent as our documentarian, teacher, and guide to the real stories of people who have been lost, forgotten, or just confused in the wilderness in (usually) dire conditions. Love the ever-changing costume choices in which Creek shows us how to fashion rafts or build signal fires. The only little complaint is that the range of life-saving crafts, advice, and information needed is somewhat limited (really, just take water, matches, don't go alone and tell people where you are going). Things can seem to repeat if you binge-watch too much, so it is understandable that Creek does not explain in every episode how to start a fire using only shoelaces or something. But he does show about 6 different ways over the several seasons. Some stories do involve serious injury and even death, which adds real complexity and power beyond most outdoor shows. Am hoping there are more seasons to come and have seen recent news stories of people found after weeks in the wilderness that cry out for treatment.

There are some helpful tips but I have to say this show sort of made me sick. Let me tell you, I hunt and fish. I eat the food I harvest throughout the year. The problem I have is I just watched an episode where this couple get lost in the desert. The survival expert demonstrates how to catch minnows that live in the little rainwater pools found in some of the rocks. It is truly amazing these fish can survive and are found in those pool. So, this survival expert show if you need protein you can capture them in a water bottle. First, you have a better chance eating the insect found on the ground then these little minnows. He captures a few then boils them in water. The camera shot shows one of these minnow that is now reduced down to just about nothing. You would need a ton of these to give you a protein load. They do this for the sake of the show. There was no reason ya had to kill the minnows to drive the point across. We could get the point without you boiling them up and wasting them. I get it. If you are starving and this was a possibility to survive then go for it. The problem is the host is not starving or lost and there is no reason that you have to kill these little creature for the sake of ratings. What he should have said is I'm going to let them go and hopefully no one will ever need to capture them. This was a disgraceful episode. I am sure you have more where you show many things getting killed. If you are starving and need it at that time then fine. But your not. If you are hunting and harvesting food for the winter then fine. But you are not, your just posing for the camera and ratings. This is shameful TV.

He shows how to tie a window closed ,he tied around the sash that had no glass in it, reality if there is no glass it wouldn't do any good to tie it shut. DUH! The lady's he was talking about had used a coat hangers to hook to hook the extension cords to and he claimed they didn't need to use a coat hangers they could simply use the extension cords and tie them around the sash of the windows problem being that he was tying the extension cords to a window that had no glass in it, the woman was tying the window's closed to keep the water out of her bed and breakfast. So the fact that he claimed that they didn't need the coat hangers to tie the windows was dumb as as hell.

This is a very odd show. A survivalist named Creek Stewart recants stories of survival (a couple and their infant son are stranded in the middle of nowhere in blizzard conditions; a woman is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Vietnamese jungle, etc.) and shows the viewer what to do to in order to make it out alive under such unimaginable conditions. But what I can't get around is the fact that the actual survivors, who retell their heart wrenching stories, survived their ordeals without any knowledge of Stewart's expertise. At one point he catches a lizard and roasts it over a fire. He doesn't explain how to build a fire in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle during the rainy season while suffering from the horrendous injuries incurred in a plane crash including a fractured hip. I guess, depending on your own personal travel plans, his advice on how to build a bamboo shelter in the middle of the Amazon jungle might prove useful.