Back in October, we featured an article that compiled a list of all the knives used on each and every episode of the television show Dual Survival. That article has since been the single most popular article published on this blog. Needless to say, it seems that viewers of survival television shows like learning exactly what’s being used on the survival TV shows they watch, which is why we decided to make a similar list of survival gear used for the viewers of Naked and Afraid. We’ll continue to do this for more survival television shows and movies in the future, so stay tuned if you like these compilations.

By way of introduction…

Knives/machetes were by far the most frequently chosen survival gear on Naked & Afraid

Fire starters were the second most frequently chosen survival gear items

Tied in third were pots and goggles for survival gear chosen on Naked & Afraid

Naked and Afraid: Survival Gear Used in Season 1

Naked and Afraid: Survival Gear Used in Season 2

Naked and Afraid: Survival Gear Used in Season 3

Naked and Afraid: Survival Gear Used in Season 4

In June of 2013, Discovery Channel’s new survival TV show, Naked and Afraid made its first appearance on air. The show’s basic concept is nothing new to the survival TV show industry: take a person or two, throw them in the wilderness, then watch as they survive in the natural world with little to no gear on them.

Naked and Afraid differentiates itself from other shows in the survival industry by adding an interesting twist to the core survival show concept. Every episode of Naked and Afraid features two new survivalists, one man and one woman, who are to survive completely naked in an island wilderness alongside each other for 21 days. Each episode, the survivalists meet the stranger they are to be surviving alongside for the first time, taking with them only one bag and a single survival item of their choice to help them make it through the 21 days. With these added twists, Naked and Afraid has had attained the record for “the highest-rated survival telecast in the [Discovery Channel’s] history since June 2009”.

**Note: Unfortunately, due to busy schedules, we will no longer be updating this page with survival gear in seasons past season 4. Feel free, however, to use the comments section to continue to discuss the show and the gear used on it. Sorry about the inconvenience!