Thomas Coyne
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About
Survival instructor, former wildland firefighter, and social media personality known for sharing wilderness, bushcraft, and emergency preparedness content on Instagram as @survival_expert with over 320,000 followers. He is also known for founding and owning Thomas Coyne Survival Schools.
Before fame
He first formally taught outdoor skills when he was around 16 years old while working as a state parks interpretive guide. He then worked in natural resource rehabilitation before becoming a helitack firefighter and EMT. He began appearing in online survival videos through the web series For the Win in April 2011 and began sharing content on Instagram in 2015.
Trivia
His survival school has trained personnel from all four branches of the United States military. He has appeared as a survival expert on multiple episodes of The UnXplained. He has been interviewed by RECOIL OFFGRID and Sunset.
Family life
He grew up between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California.
Associated with
He taught Mike Rowe how to make fire and survive in the Mojave Desert for Somebody's Gotta Do It in 2014.
