Earlier this year, the team at “Something Offbeat” learned about Elvis Francois, a man who survived for weeks on his capsized boat by eating mostly ketchup. Heinz was so impressed that it vowed to buy him a new boat. This story made us interested in survival situations and how to deal with them.

So, we reached out to Josh Piven, co-author of “The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook,” a bestseller that has spawned several sequels, including the upcoming “Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Apocalypse".