Plot Synopsis

NAKED AND AFRAID CASTAWAYS is a one-hour reality series that follows nine challengers who are abandoned on a remote tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with no maps or tools -- only wreckage to survive miles away from civilization. In teams of three, they must swim to different ecosystems on the same island -- sun-scorched beach, twisted mangrove swamp and dense jungle -- to begin their distinct survival journeys. They must use only their navigational skills and fashion everything they need to survive from wreckage and debris strewn across the island, including a shipwreck, an abandoned military jeep and a crashed airplane. Without knives, pots, and fire starters, challengers will need to scavenge the area to find what they need to create those items from scratch, using only their ingenuity and will to survive. The remaining survivalists will need to travel to the same extraction point on Day 21 and signal a boat for rescue. The nine competitors are: Kerra Bennett (Nashville, TN), Patrick French (Canterbury, NH), Justin Governale (San Antonio, TX), Bulent Gurcan (Point Roberts, WA), Na'im McKee (Aurora, CO), Candice Mishler (North Phoenix, AZ), Andrew Shayde (Lexington, KY), Heather Smith (Brookeland, TX), and Rachel Strohl (Oahu, HI).