I'm Alive (TV series)

Mike Makens is bitten by a black widow and spends 7 days in excruciating pain as his family tries to procure antivenom from Mexico. Jeremy McGill is a teacher in China, when a friend suggests he see some wild elephants. He travels 1,400 miles to do that and is promptly gored after spooking them.

Craig Hutto, 16, is attacked by a bull shark on a beach in Florida, eventually losing his leg. At a wedding deep in the South African bush, Piet van der Walt is mauled by a leopard who was aiming for his head.

Sgt. Monique Munro-Harris is stung by a deathstalker scorpion in Iraq, and needs to be airlifted through enemy positions to survive. Dane Keiser is pulled under a fence by three lions in a South African game reserve and is seriously injured.

While hiking in the woods with a friend, off-duty deputy sheriff Brandon Parker is bitten by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake and he collapses while attempting to walk back to his truck. Tonga Loumoli is eviscerated by a crocodile needlefish while diving at night, and his diving partner must drag him a quarter mile on a raft to shore.

Achmat Hassiem, a lifeguard and prospective Olympian, has his foot ripped off by a great white during a training exercise. Bruce Kanegai, the karate expert, is struck by a southern pacific rattlesnake while playing golf.

Karen and Charlie Folger are swarmed by killer bees while visiting their new house in the Texas countryside. Krishna Thompson is mauled by a bull shark in the Bahamas during a wedding anniversary celebration.

Gary Brown, Melvin Mammah, two other Americans and a local guide are attacked by a massive escaped chimpanzee while visiting a chimpanzee sanctuary. The guide has his entire face eaten off and dies, while some of the others receive serious injuries. A European viper strikes tourist David Dunn in France, leaving his brother to get him to safety.

Dr. John Raster, an ear, nose and throat specialist, is mauled by a brown bear while on vacation, and he is beyond earshot of his friends. Danie Pienaar, a wildlife specialist, is stricken by a black mamba while deep in the African bush, and he needs to hike to his car to drive out and survive.

During an engagement celebration, 18-year-old Kasey Edwards is mauled by an alligator and loses his arm; Bruce Campton is struck five times by a death adder.

Susan Cenkus and her two children are attacked by a black bear in a forest in Tennessee, and her daughter Elora Petrasek, 6, dies. Both Susan and Luke, her two-year-old son, are badly injured. Lawrence van Sertima is struck by a taipan on September 11, 2001, and the only antivenom available cannot be accessed; being a six-hour flight away, with all planes grounded due to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Farmer Vernon Diggins in South Africa is attacked by a Mozambique spitting cobra that was curled up under his pillow, his middle finger nearly needed amputation. Nick Greeve is on a rafting trip in Utah when he is attacked by a black bear. His friends must row him 60 miles, over rapids and in the soaring heat, to help, while he is bleeding to death.

While doing yard work after Hurricane Katrina, teenager Patrick Dodson accidentally rips a bag full of mulch and fire ants, the contents of which are sprayed all over his legs. He suffers an allergic reaction and nearly dies. Game ranger Rudi Lorist is leading tourists through the wilderness in South Africa, when he is charged by a lioness. He shoots it once, then it gets up again and catches him off-guard.

A wildlife specialist and helicopter crash survivor JJ van Altena is charged by an elephant which overturns his truck, leaving him trapped underneath. Eric Ebinger is stricken by a prairie rattlesnake while camping, and his son Rio, just 10 years old, must row him one and a half hours upstream to help.

Teenager Hoku Aki is mauled by a tiger shark while surfing in Hawaii, and loses his leg below the knee. Gerald Marois climbs a tree to escape from a black bear, which promptly brings him down and mauls him.

Two students, Rusty van Wert and Caleb Snow, are bitten by a cottonmouth snake after it was misidentified by a teacher and allowed to be a class pet. A Marine, Cpl. Justin Trinidad, saves couple Patricia and Javier Franco from a bull hippo in Zimbabwe after they fall from their boat.

Colton Reeb is attacked by a cougar on a camping trip, and Robbie Hamouda is bitten by a redback spider after he and a friend become lost in the Australian Outback.

Yolanda Diaz is bitten by a water moccasin on both arms and risks losing them. Jonathan Skyes is attacked by an elephant in Kenya, his friend must get him to safety.

Dakota Kilbride is attacked by a crocodile in Costa Rica while surfing. Ron Leming Jr. is mauled by a grizzly in Wyoming while bow hunting with his father.

A humpback whale rams a sailboat, leaving Eugenie Russell and her four crew members no choice but to abandon their sinking ship; Michael Alex White is bitten by a fer-de-lance while in the Guatemalan jungle.

Fifteen-year-old Jeanna Giese contracts rabies after being bitten by a bat. In South Africa, Craig Bovim is stalked and attacked by a great white shark on Christmas Day.

In Montana, Steve Chamberlain and a friend struggles through miles of dark woods in search of help after being attacked by three grizzly bears. Matt Greenbury is stung by a venomous Irukandji jellyfish while in vacation with his girlfriend, on an island in Australia.

JP Andrew is attacked by a great white shark while surfing with friends in South Africa. Cathy Hayes is charged by a bison while recording on video in Yellowstone National Park.