Mississaugan survives reality show

Mississaugan survives reality show - The Mississauga News - Mississauga.com

April 3, 2009 05:47 PM - A Mississauga teen will try to show the world he's a survivor when he appears on a 13-episode reality television series that premieres Tuesday night.

Adam Deganis, 15, is one of eight Canadian teenagers participating in YTV's Survive This.

The show features city dwellers who are thrown into the Ontario wilderness, just north of Huntsville, with camera crews around them. The show, filmed last summer, is not competitive and participants can leave when they decide they've had enough.
They're put through various survival challenges.

"I've always actually been involved with the outdoors so I enjoyed everything that we did," said Deganis, a Loyola Secondary School student. "I had fun with it."
Deganis, who applied online for the show, picked up nicknames like Nature Boy and The Sportsman during the series, stemming from his passion for the outdoors. Some of his favourite activities include fishing and hunting, and he and his dad spend a lot of time outdoors.

Survive This is hosted by Les Stroud, a survival expert and host of Outdoor Life Network's Survivorman.

"We did a lot of fun things that Les Stroud did, like build shelters, start fires, boil our own water. It was really cool," Deganis said.

"I was going into it to learn something and have fun," he added. "I think if I were put into a survival situation, I probably learned enough to survive for a couple of days."
Because participants had to catch their own food, Deganis said their diet often consisted of frog legs.

For more information, visit www.ytv.com.

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