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Trapped is a six-episode documentary television series that premiered on November 7, 2007, on the National Geographic Channel. Produced in association with the Canadian National Geographic Channel and Cineflix (which produced Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation), the program examined various actual incidents or disasters in which victims were trapped on the site.
| Trapped | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary Disaster Survival |
| Narrated by | Albert Schultz |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45–50 minutes |
| Production company | Cineflix Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | National Geographic Channel |
| Release | November 7 – December 12, 2007 |
Episodes
edit| No. | Title | Situation | Situation duration | Nature of Situation | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Alive in the Andes" | Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya Flight 571 | October 13 – December 23, 1972 | Aircraft crash | November 7, 2007 | |
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A Fairchild FH-227 carrying five crew and forty passengers, many of them rugby players from Stella Maris College's "Old Christians" team, hits the side of a mountain (later named as Cerro Seler) in the Andes Mountains. Twelve of the occupants die instantly; more die as the survivors wait to be rescued. The sixteen remaining survivors are rescued more than two months after the crash. | ||||||
| 2 | "Ocean Emergency" | RORO vessel Camilla | January 23, 2003 | Disabled ship | November 14, 2007 | |
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The Camilla, a Finnish roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in Canadian waters, suffers a main engine failure.[1] With a storm approaching, the captain declares an emergency to the Canadian Coast Guard. A squad of Canadian Armed Forces rescuers from 103 Search and Rescue Squadron fly to the ship and the sixteen members of the Camilla's crew are safely evacuated. | ||||||
| 3 | "Osaka Train Wreck" | Amagasaki derailment | April 25, 2005 | Train derailment | November 21, 2007 | |
| 4 | "Earthquake Rapid Response" | 2005 Kashmir earthquake | October 8, 2005 – October 12, 2005 | Earthquake victim rescue | November 28, 2007 | |
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale rocks Pakistan. Two ten-storey blocks in the Margalla Towers, a luxury apartment complex in Islamabad, collapse.[2] A rescue team from the United Kingdom, Rapid UK, goes to Islamabad to help rescue victims from the towers. | ||||||
| 5 | "Hurricane Hospital" | Tulane Hospital flood | August 29, 2005 – August 30, 2005 | Flooded hospital | December 5, 2007 | |
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The 300-bed Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana takes in patients from other hospitals during Hurricane Katrina. Relatives of the patients and others also arrive until there are over 2,000 people at the hospital. The hospital is being powered by emergency generators in the basement and has no running water. When the basement starts to flood after the hurricane, the decision is made to evacuate. The patients, staff and everyone else are airlifted from the hospital's car park roof by helicopter.[3] | ||||||
| 6 | "Cave Rescue" | Vitarelles cave system | November 11 - Late November 1999 | Flooded cave | December 12, 2007 | |
References
edit- ^ Backup information from a web page describing the Camilla, and detailing the incident and subsequent salvage Archived 2006-10-15 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2007-12-29.
- ^ Backup information from a web page describing the Margalla Towers collapse retrieved 2007-12-29.
- ^ Backup information from an article from Harvard Medical School Web Weekly, October 3, 2005 Archived October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine describing Tulane University Hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina; retrieved 2007-12-29.
- ^ Brief episode synopsis[permanent dead link] retrieved 2008-02-02.
- ^ Sydney. J., (1999) "French cavers trapped by flood water in French caves", Newcaves Chronicles V. 14, January 2000, pp10 - 11. Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society (NHVSS). ISSN 1325-0930. Retrieved 2008-02-02.