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Snake Island Relay (also known as Breath Holding, Waiting to Exhale, and Hold Your Breath) is a recurring endurance physical challenge of Survivor. It debuted as the first ever individual Immunity Challenge in Survivor: Borneo, and reappeared in Survivor: All-Stars.

Rules[]

The challenge requires castaways to hold their breath underwater for as long as they can. The contestants are eliminated once they come up for air. Once enough contestants are eliminated, the final few compete in a swimming contest. The first person to complete the underwater obstacle course wins.

History[]

United States[]

In Survivor: Borneo, all ten castaways submerged themselves underwater to see how long they could hold their breath. The top three castaways then had another competition of releasing buoys along a ladder submerged underwater. The first castaway to release all of their ten buoys would win immunity. Greg Buis, Gervase Peterson, and Sean Kenniff made it to the final round where Greg barely beat out Sean for immunity.

In Survivor: All-Stars, the castaways were divided by gender. The two people of each gender to stay submerged longest pass to the second stage. In the end, the two finalists from each gender would have to race to unclip buoys. The two winners would win immunity. Amber Brkich and Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien were the final women, while Lex van den Berghe and Rob Mariano were the final men. The women went first, and Kathy defeated Amber for immunity. Rob then defeated Lex for the men's individual immunity.

France[]

South Africa[]

In Malaysia, the challenge appeared as the final six Immunity Challenge. The final two contestants would race to untie and release two buoys before swimming up to shore. In the final round, Angie Bennett and Grant Clark competed for the Immunity Necklace, with Angie handily defeating Grant to become the first woman in Survivor South Africa to wear the necklace.

United Kingdom[]

Winners[]

Episode Challenge Type Winners
Borneo
"The Merger"
Individual Immunity S1 greg t
Greg Buis
All-Stars
"Anger, Tears and Chaos"
Individual Immunity S8 kathy t
Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien
S8 robm t
Rob Mariano

Episode Challenge Type Winners
Les Aventuriers
Episode 7
Individual Immunity FRS1 william t
William Lecomte
Caramoan
Episode 7
Individual Immunity FRS8 christopher t
Christopher Lavaud

Episode Challenge Type Winners
Malaysia
Episode 11
Individual Immunity ZAS2 angie t
Angie Bennett

Episode Challenge Type Winners
Panama
Episode 8
Individual Reward UKS1 james t
James Stroud
Panama
Episode 5
Individual Reward S2uk drew t
Drew Agger
S2uk susannah t
Susannah Moffat

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Trivia[]

  • This was the first ever individual challenge, as well as the first individual Immunity Challenge, in the history of Survivor.
    • Both times this challenge was used, it was the first post-merge individual challenge and was for immunity.
  • Jenna Lewis is the only castaway to compete in this challenge twice. She lost both times.
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