Episode

Man vs. Wild: Pacific Island

Name: Man vs. Wild: Pacific Island
Released: 2010-01-06
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Bear Grylls, Will Ferrell, Jake Gyllenhaal

Man vs. WildSeason 42010-01-06

Overview

Grylls is on a deserted Panamanian island; he creates fresh water and chooses to use tribal fishing techniques before battling the sea on a makeshift raft. Later in the episode he gives himself an enema in order to stay hydrated on the open seas.

Details

Series: Man vs. Wild
Season: Season 4
Episode: Episode 6
Air date: 2010-01-06
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

Pacific Island is Episode 6 in Season 4 of Man vs. Wild. It aired on 2010-01-06. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 5: Alaska 2009-09-09 | 45 min Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.

Episode 7: China 2010-01-13 | 45 min Bear does all his usual acrobatics while suffering through Typhon Parma in China including swinging on a vine, monkey climbing over a gorge and cliff diving.

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Episode 4: Texas 2009-09-02 | 45 min In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

Episode 8: Big Sky Country 2010-01-20 | 45 min Grylls takes on Big Sky Country. He paraglides above the Rockies, traverses vast gullies, and makes the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.

Episode 3: Vietnam 2009-08-26 | 45 min Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

Episode 9: Guatemala 2010-01-26 | 45 min

Episode 2: Alabama 2009-08-19 | 45 min Grylls wrestles a pig, squeezes through some tight spots, and survives a forest fire in the swamps of Alabama. It is revealed that Grylls broke his shoulder while in Antarctica two months previously.

Episode 10: Urban Survivor 2010-02-03 | 45 min Grylls is in a post-disaster urban city scenario and he must survive. His thirst to live and survival techniques modified for a city environment keep him alive in a concrete wasteland in Gdynia, Poland.

Episode 1: Arctic Circle 2009-08-12 | 45 min Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

Episode 11: North Africa 2010-02-17 | 45 min Grylls crosses the Sahara desert to the North Africa coast, where he catches an octopus, fashions a shelter out of acacia trees and dines on moths and locusts.