There are many outdoor activities that are exciting for a lot of people and are participated in by millions. Typically nothing goes wrong in these outdoor activities like kayak fishing, which of course requires kayak fishing accessories. Unfortunately, sometimes things can go wrong and when it does it can turn lethal. On the show I Should Not Be Alive on the Animal Planet channel they tell stories of people who have gone through near death experiences at the hands of the wilderness. It portrays people who have gone through all kinds of crazy things from bear attacks to a boat sinking, leaving all survivors stranded out in the middle of the ocean.

One episode of the tragic show featured a couple of young, athletic and highly competitive friends who went on a kayaking trip with each other. As mentioned before, these two were very competitive with each other and each was constantly trying to show the other one who was the alpha male of the group. So, the two men set out to kayak off the coast of Washington, near the Pacific Ocean, and decided on a fairly simple ride to a remote island off the coast. Well, the trip was intended to be simple that is until one of the two friends showed up late by four hours and they had to go in the dark. Also, as it turns out Larry, the friend who was less than punctual had never actually, kayaked before and had only pretended to be an expert to not look like a wimp.

After barely escaping the tides and being swept out into the ocean, the two friends made it to their intended stopping point, with the actual expert on kayaking not pleased to say the least. The friends now had three options and two of them were simple, but somewhat damaging to the ego, ways out in which they would ask local people in cabins for assistance in getting back to the mainland. However, always trying to avoid being one upped by his kayaking superior, Larry decided to try the difficult way and make it back himself following behind his friend on the way back to the mainland. Of course, the one who actually was a good kayaker made it back fairly easily. Larry, however, was not so lucky in his attempts to get back to land.

Instead of making it back safely, Larry was thrown out to the sea by the currents of the ocean and had to simply drift around in the ocean for a matter of twelve hours or so. Because he was wearing clothing that was improper for kayaking, Larry then for some reason decided to abandon his kayak and try to swim to an island. While he did eventually make it to an island after about another twelve hours, Larry's kayak of course made it back to mainland first.

However, there was still to be one more hurdle in Larry's struggle for safety. Upon reaching, by swimming, an uninhabited island Larry saw a helicopter. Instead of staying where he was and trying to beckon the chopper to him, Larry decided to run towards it in hopes that it would see him. Of course, the chopper did not catch sight of him and flew away. Finally though, after about another twelve hour segment Larry was rescued and taken back to his friends and family. There is certainly a lesson to be learned in this episode of the breathtaking show and that is that shying away from competition amongst friends is not always in fact such a bad thing.