Trapped (National Geographic Channel)

Trapped
Genre	Documentary Disaster Survival
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	45–50 minutes
Production company(s)	Cineflix Productions
Release
Original network	National Geographic Channel
Original release	November 7, 2007 – present

Trapped is a documentary television series that premiered on November 7, 2007 on the National Geographic Channel. Produced in association with the National Geographic Channel and Cineflix (which produced Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation), the program examines various actual incidents or disasters in which victims were trapped on the site.

As of 12 December 2007, six episodes have been aired.

Episodes

Season 1 (2007)

#	Episode Title	Situation	Date of Situation	Nature of Situation	Original U.S. Airdate
1	Alive in the Andes	Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya Flight 571	13 October - December 23, 1972	Aircraft crash	November 7, 2007
	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	23 January 2003	Disabled ship	November 14, 2007
	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 rescuers fly to the ship and the sixteen members of the Camilla's crew are safely evacuated.
3	Osaka Train Wreck	Amagasaki rail crash	25 April 2005	Train derailment	November 21, 2007
	A JR-207 type train, bound for Osaka on a commuter service, derails on a curve at a speed greater than the limit for that section of track. The two front carriages crash into an adjacent apartment block. 107 people are killed and 555 are injured.
4	Earthquake Rapid Response	2005 Kashmir earthquake	8 October 2005 – 12 October 2005	Earthquake victim rescue	November 28, 2007
	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	29 August 2005 – 30 August 2005	Flooded hospital	December 5, 2007
	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	11 November - Late November 1999	Flooded cave	December 12, 2007
	7 men are trapped underground. They are not saved until over a week later.[4][5]

References

1. Backup information from a web page describing the Camilla, and detailing the incident and subsequent salvage, retrieved 2007-12-29.
2. Backup information from a web page describing the Margalla Towers collapse retrieved 2007-12-29.
3. Backup information from an article from Harvard Medical School Web Weekly, October 3, 2005 describing Tulane University Hospital during and after Hurricane Katrina; retrieved 2007-12-29.
4. Brief episode synopsis retrieved 2008-02-02.
5. Backup information from Newcaves Chronicles Volume 14, January 2000, p10. Newcastle and Hunter Valley Speleological Society. ISSN 1325-0930. Retrieved 2008-02-02.

See also

• Blueprint for Disaster
• Mayday: Air Crash Investigation
• Seconds from Disaster
• Seismic Seconds
• Situation Critical