David Michael Canterbury (born September 19, 1963) is a
survival expert who co-starred on the
reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early ...
show ''
Dual Survival
''Dual Survival'' is a United States reality television series that airs on the Discovery Channel. The show features a pair of survival experts in predetermined survival scenarios while in challenging environments.
For the first two seasons, th ...
'' for two seasons (2010–11) which aired on the ''
Discovery Channel''.
He is also an author, publishing ''Bushcraft 101'' in 2014 (which made
''The New York Times'' Best Seller list),
''Survivability for the Common Man'' (2011), and ''Advanced Bushcraft'' (2015). In 2015 Canterbury co-starred in a survival series called ''Dirty Rotten Survival'', which aired on the
National Geographic Channel.
He first worked on a reptile farm, then as a commercial fisherman and diver in Florida.
Canterbury is currently the owner and one of the instructors at the Pathfinder School in southeast
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
. Canterbury teaches survival techniques, promoting what he calls the "5 Cs of Survivability": a cutting tool, a combustion device, cover, a container, and cordage. He has a
YouTube
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TV channel on which he posts survival-themed
instructional videos.
On the show ''Dual Survival'', Canterbury demonstrated various survival skills, such as how to cauterize an injury using gunpowder and fire. He intentionally sliced open his own arm and then had his co-host,
Cody Lundin
Cody Lundin (born March 15, 1967) is a survival instructor at the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, which he founded in 1991. There he teaches modern wilderness survival skills, primitive living skills, urban preparedness, a ...
, use this technique to stop the bleeding.
In 2012 the producers decided Canterbury would not be returning to the show when it was found that he lied about his military record.
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References
External links
The Pathfinder School
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1963 births
Living people
Survivalists
Place of birth missing (living people)
American television personalities
People from Ohio
United States Army soldiers