A kayakist in New Zealand struggles to save his drowning friend. French snowboarders race against time to find the friend who has been buried by an avalanche.

Tourists struggle to survive after a ferry capsizes and an injured caver is trapped where only dynamite can save him.

Dramatic real-life footage, captured by the rescuers themselves, of a team sent to recover bodies from a sunken wreck finds one man still alive.

A rescue team fights through a storm to reach a fisherman whose hand has been ripped through a winch and a crevasse opens up under a group of climbers.