my favourite part is how i was wondering what it was till i realized and the accuracy that you'd prolly be naked (well its showing primitive human survival so yeah)
I can’t wait to be stuck on an island, use this advice to stay alive for years, completely lose sanity, and when I’m rescued years later and am asked how I survived I’ll just scream “HORSES”
I was marooned on a desert island last week and after setting up a signal fire I was able to get broadband. After that I made a simple computer from coconut shells and sea anemones powered by jellyfish. I came across this video on you tube, it gave me so many ideas on how to survive I could have lived quite comfortably for who knows how many weeks. I was actually in the process of installing solar panels made from very thin sheets of volcanic glass and palm leaves when a passing ship noticed the 10 metre seawalls I'd been building around the island as part of a futureproofing initiative for the rising sea levels. They came ashore and found me, thank god.
Ive been stuck on this uncharted desert isle for years. There's a professor here but everytime he just about gets us saved, this jackass named Giligan fucks it up.
He's totally lying. I was on the ship that rescued him, in fact I was the one who found him on the beach his "10 metre sea walls" were a line of sticks on the sand and he was in the process of biting off his own toe nails because he "knows how to use them as staples". He's a dangerously crazy individual.
I like how Don't Starve includes sanity as one of the primary traits you have to maintain, like hunger and temp control, that's just good sense. A lot of good advice in your video, nice work.
Seriously, I've tried to explain the importance in survival situations of vitamins and minerals etc. I read once where a man survived 90 days at sea. He had cans of water. But he started craving various organs and parts of the fish he'd catch such as eyes and liver. Somehow his mind told his body what to eat. He survived. Listen to your body.
Liver is typically a tissue filled with many dangerous substances undergoing various processes of biological breakdown. In other words, an awful gamble to make if you're going to eat liver, especially when in a weakened condition.
@@guyman1570 while this is true for some animals, such as polar bears where they’re liver is so vitamin filled you’ll actually overdose on vitamins from eating it, it’s generally not the case with fish. Just about every fish organ is safe and edible (with very few exceptions like pufferfish as the video mentioned) and you should absolutely eat them if starving on a desert island. There’s vitamins and nutrients in organs that aren’t in the meat and they’ll help keep you alive. You just need to make sure they’re thoroughly cooked first, same as regular fish fillets
2 things: once I eat only rice for 45+ days. I got sick... looked sick and started to develop infections from nowhere. once I eat a unknown tree nut, very tasty. 30 minutes later my sense of smell was boosted to 300%. 15 minutes more I was vomiting like a rocket engine. A couple more moments later I was also shitting myself. No toilet paper, just leaves with allergic compounds. Very nice experience.
@@hoti47 almost that... I was camping and miscalculated the amount of food needed for the time I would stay. I had to experiment with local plants. Plants rarely do you any real harm, but mushrooms are much worse. I don't know how I'm still alive, it was a lot of luck.
"The beach is dangerous! The sun will give you sun poisoning" and "avoid the sun!" In flashing text with this video style really gives me analogue horror vibes
Man, I had this video on with some white noise on and slept like a baby. Not that it's boring content, but it's so chill and you speak very smoothly. Now I'm actually watching the video. It's very good! *edited to change all the terrible mistakes Gboard makes on Android
your channel is what public access television would be if passionate people filled the ranks. love your style and topical acuity! your hard work is much appreciated!
approved currently in seychelles, where the climate is quite tropical - i do not want to traverse on a hike and go to reach blindly for a tree trunk to move myself more efficiently, on the off chance i touch some goop or a snail
An important note with fire bows/plows: the wood you're working to get your powder is an important ingredient, not all wood is created equally. You need a very dry wood with relatively small grains. If you are having little luck with your current piece, it can be wise to find a different type of wood rather than wearing yourself out trying to work wood thats unsuitable
Quick word from a Marine Ecologist. If digging through the sand for edibles avoid polychaetes (bristle worms) unless you know what you are looking at. Yes, some like the Palolo Worm are edible, but most are not. You really need to be absolutely sure of your identification. That does not make them useless however, while they may be inedible for you they make great bait for catching fish or crustaceans, either on hook or in traps, and they can be dug up with relatively little effort. Certainly less effort than it would take to catch bait fish. What you are really looking for though are various bivalves such as clams. Almost all of these are edible, but always make sure the shells are firmly shut before cooking them. If they are slightly open then discard them as you would mussels. Healthy bivalves will close up if they feel threatened. Virtually all limpets are also edible, you need to knock them off the rock in one swift move, if you give them enough time to settle onto the rock, especially if they are on their home scar, they are damned near impossible to prise off. Its best to catch them as the tide is going out, when they are grazing. Don't even bother trying when the tide is out and they are settled on their home scar, it would be almost as easy just breaking the rock as it would be trying to prise them off it.
This is an awesome video! A few minor nits - The zebrafish you must be wary of are of the genus Pterois, not those Danio rerio sold in pet stores you had pictured. - Crab lungs aren't poisonous, just gross.
Yep, I noticed these small errors as well. Additionally, the edible part of the sea urchin is actually its reproductive organ (despite sometimes being called sea urchin roe). Really enjoyed the video overall, learned a lot of things in the off-chance I randomly wake up on a deserted island one day.
A thing I heard about the plant testing thing - do all of these to a boiled plant. Boiling makes plants safer, so it might ensure that you don't discard a plant that's edible when cooked.
@@noah4822 they end up in the water you used to boil them, and you can always take the safe-when-boiled plant and test it again for if it's safe when uncooked Edit: well, some nutrients do decompose under heat.
Another reason to avoid using rocks as a cooking surface is that, depending on the type of stone and its physical properties, you run the risk of the rock cracking open violently or even exploding due to heat expansion. Another thing to note is that, you can avoid destroying wooden containers while using them to cook via boiling over a fire by ensuring the flames do not rise above the water level inside the container. The water will conduct the heat out of the container faster than it can burn this way. Besides using bamboo, wooden containers can be constructed using strips of inner tree bark either sown or folded together to make rudimentary cups and bowls (think of something like a Chinese take-out box, or a pocket-shapped sown container for inspiration).
Avoid them as cooking surfaces? Yes, but why would you... Avoid the completely? No, heating rocks to throw into water to boil it is extremely useful. Of course might require testing so they don't explode, but generally safe, especially those you find by the sea
In Denmark, there is a show called Øen(The Island) where 14 people go to an island in Panama and have to survive for 30 days. A lot of these tips are demonstrated in the show. It's worth watching if you cancfind it with english subtitles. Btw, crab lungs arent toxic. They just taste really bad. Great vid.
One of the first things i would do is make or obtain a sturdy walking staff. You can probe ahead in water, or on land. You can prevent slips and falls. Can be used for minor protection against critters.
i wasn't expecting this format, i loved it. its also well explained and not rushed as fast as possible like 99% of the videos about anything on youtube, so i actually paid attention and tried to understand what i could.
Part of me now worries that watching this has included me in a horror movie esk scenario where I am now a candidate to be captured during my sleep, made unconscious and dropped onto a dessert island filled with hidden cameras in an experiment to see how far my knowledge of this video alone can be used to survive there haha
@@Thetarget1also less wild fruits and fish. I was looking out into the woods and realized, it's much easier to catch tropical fish then to hunt small animals in a pine forrest
I'd like to see this too! Mountainous, forested, swamplands, desert and probably most helpful would be urban areas of different climates. Because let's face it, a MFer ending up homeless is a bigger threat than anything else these days.
i really love this channel i can’t express how much i love everything, the visuals the narration the throughly researched info i can’t express how calming yet attention grabbing this channel is
There are two things worth mentioning here i think, first that for many it is possible to survive without consuming carbs, you can find some people living off a solely carnivore diet. Also eggs are likely to be available on a tropical island and contain nearly every nutrient the body requires short a single amino acid and vitamin c. The occasional egg could be the difference
Also, dried coconut husks from the tree or from the fruit are incredibly useful for fire kindling. Also, coconuts do not have milk in it, it has liquid endosperm i.e. coconut water and hard, jelly-like endosperm. The dried coconut mentioned before hardens the 'coconut endosperm' gives coconut oil when crushed, or can be a high calorie snack if needed. It's a delicious thing, and very useful. Shoutout to coconuts 🔥
I ate a coconut once. When I finally got the damn thing open (it wasn't easy), there was no liquid inside, only a white interior that felt like eating a brick. My teeth hurt for days after I finally finished it, lol.
I really appreciate your soft and gentle speaking, it's so nice to hear, and allows me to get into the story you are telling. It's a pleasant contrast to the crowd. Thank you for being you :) p.s. Your choice of music in addition to your voice creates a soothing hypnotic state.
This came to me recommended and I have to say, I'm very impressed with the honesty in here. No clickbait, no nothing, just good information. I salute you sir
I have been waterloss minimizing in my day to day life ever since I found this video and now im fitter and happier than I ever was before. I haven’t spoken a word in months, I just nose breathe - competely sober
This is a real work of art, as an editor myself, I do appreciate your style... the type setting and colours, very nicely done. ...A most pleasant escape you have created.
If you manage to find a kettle or you made a pot out of clay, or just made a cup out of bamboo, it may be easier to boil water by throwing hot stones into the vessel than trying to boil it normally like you do it on your kitchen.
An important thing missing in the burning bamboo thing. Bamboo has pockets that explode and send ash and embers flying. If you only have it to burn make sure you split it first.
@@WilhelmFreidrich do you know how to pilot a helicopter? Personally I’d bring my country, so America is just somewhere in the South Pacific instead of where it currently is. Actually this would have its benefits, while being further from Europe is bad we are much closer to east Asia so it opens some nice trade opportunities
13:14 you can also put cloth clothing like a shirt wrapped around a stick over the boiling vessel to capture distilled steam to wring off as extra clean water. Reduces your net loss from boiling.
I’ve always loved the idea that I could survive in extreme conditions. When I found out I needed glasses when I was 10 I thought “damn maybe I wouldn’t have survived a few thousand years ago as a hunter gatherer.”. A few years after that I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and for some reason it’s so hard for me to live with the fact that I couldn’t even survive in some parts of the world today, and nowhere more than 100 years ago.
Legit stuff to add,;- 1, build a fish stockade trap (some were a mile of more long) between tide lines so any lingering fish are caught when the tide drops without any effort and they can be funneled to another covered pool (for birds) and kept alive for days. 2, rusty rocks may by pyrite and pyrite will spark if stuck with another hard stone. 3, a ring of fresh ashes is a partial deterrent around your "house" for insects and snakes ( I've slept right over a big piles of leaves I burned. Just swept-out a spot in the middle). 4. Eat brains and gonads. They are fat. You won't make it on lean meat as mentioned. Bones are food. Just paste them with a rock in your coconut cup I guess. 5. All polypore (gill-less) shelf mushrooms (no classic stalk) are not poisonous. Some will be wood like. The broth from cooked ones is nutritional no matter how tough they are. Ganaderma is global. 6, split bamboo are used as blades often. Dulls fast but there's more around easy. 7, spit on your cordage when you roll it on the top of your leg with your palm. Old ladies making the first ply for hemp rope chew leaves of something to keep it flowing. 8, rub mud into scales or feathers and coat the animal with a few inches of it and bake in the coals. When you peel ot off it takes the skin and you don't have to scale or pluck. 9. There are several tropical honeybees that are smaller and under leaves instead of in something. There's the only sugar you'll get and a known antibiotic and food preservative.
If you have plenty of loose rock available, you can also build tidal traps. They're built like a U or a V a few feet across with the open end pointed toward shore. They're basically a small, low wall you build on the part of the beach that becomes exposed at low tide. At high tide, the water overflows the trap, but when the water retreats at low tide they can trap or strand a number of fish in them. They're not super reliable but once built they can be a low-energy means of food gathering.
Ah, stonefish! We call them rock puppies in Australia, and they're very common and the reason we like to wear fairly serious footwear in shallow ocean water
11:30 Do not just smash rocks into the coconut. Thats the fastest way to cut yourself. Use one sharp rock against the coconut, and smash that rock with a piece of wood, or another coconut if there isnt any wood around. Its a bit more awkward to do, but it mostly prevents any injuries.
Get a nice size strong, straight piece of stick about 3ft long. Sharpen both ends. Drive one end onto the ground about a foot deep. The sharp end that is pointing up can tear open a coconut in seconds with a little practice. Can work with green coconuts, but work much better with brown coconuts. If you're not going to climb the tree, you will most likely be harvesting brown coconuts anyway.
@@blackbwayit seems like making a spear is just a good idea in general. Probably not going to have any animals to stab with it on an island, but having a sharp stick is just so versatile
@@georgiykireev9678 A sharp stick is basically another appendage. Primal man has used it for thousands of years and it's basically one of the most simple and effective tools ever invented. Everything from creating levers to spearing or help when climbing. If you're in a survival situation and have a problem, you can probably solve or improve it with a stick. Sticks are just that incredible.
I don't know if you mentioned it, and I missed it, but SEAWEED is loaded with Vitamin A, B, C, E, antioxidants, and fiber. Most all seaweed is edible, however some species can be hard to digest, but it's everywhere and will be a good addition to the seafood.
Is there any chance you could make one but for the mountains or something? I really enjoy listening to your narration, it's very soothing and there's a far higher chance I'd be stranded there than some island in the pacific
Sometimes the infamously enigmatic algorithm hits the Spot. I (therefore 'it' ^^) discovered your channel today and it's causing quite a binge'ish afternoon. Great combination of visuals, topics & nuanced information. Thank you.
Bamboo fact : 1. The surface has a lot of mini sharp hairs that can cause skin irritation. (very annoying and quite hard to get rid) you should clean it before processing 2. Unsplitted bamboo is basically a continuous chamber separated by joints, so it'll explode if you burn it 3. Some bamboo chamber can contain water or larva inside ( I live in tropical country)
when trying to survive, it's good to remember the rule of 3s a human can survive: - 3 minutes without oxygen - 3 hours without heat - 3 days without water - 3 weeks without food just so you have some priorities
If there's any chance your desert island is in the Caribbean, you should learn in advance to recognise the manchineel tree. This can kill you just with prolonged contact, even if you don't ingest it.
They can kill you without you even coming into contact with it. You just need to stand under one while it's raining and then your skin will blister from the sap dissolved in the water. And then if the blisters get infected, Bye bye.
I've lived in the Caribbean for most of my life and I don't know this plant in person. I've been seeing it on the internet time after time since the past 8 years. Being searching for it in person, haven't found it yet.
I remember reading the SAS guide again and again as a teenager. I remember the “rub the plant on the inside of your elbow” part, the distilling methods and the shelter types. I’m happy to report that no skill learned from the boos has ever been needed, so far
Get a job at UPS, make a plan to propose to your significant other & then board the doomed aircraft. Maybe go to the dentist before that, just for convenience.
Love the plant edibility test, I’ve been subconsciously conducting that test on kale and sprouts for years!!! But seriously; thanks to all the crazy people who ate poisonous plants so we could cross them off the list 🤭
I'm still trying to figure out how someone discovered how to make pokeweed edible. You have to boil it, drain it, cool then boil it again, to make it safe to eat, and this is only for the young leaves and stems. So who was it that watched his buddy die eating it raw, then watched another buddy die after boiling it up, and figured "maybe if I boil it a second time?"
What a great and really enjoyable, informative video. I love the relaxing "holiday" music in the background as if describing bring on holidays, not surviving!
I spent a week in the woods with nothing. At the time I was an avid reader. Anyway. The way you survive is slowly. You don’t waste calories by moving fast or making useless movements. So during the day you are busy because there is a lot of little things to do just for comfort and a lot of big things that are needed for life.. But it is when it gets dark if you can’t sleep it is insane how you miss distraction. Any kind of distraction… The first evening as you watch the darkness grow is maddening. Waking up scared and not knowing why while laying in the dark is the worse..
Easy. Just find your nearest tree, break it, and then use it to build a crafting table. Break some grass for seeds, make a hoe, and you’re set. Just make sure to build a shelter to avoid mobs at night ✅
@@Laku987654321Find a cave, if there isn’t one you’ll have to go mining. I recommend strip mining as you have access to more surrounding stone. Just let it be known, the diamonds won’t be usable if you mine them without the proper tools, so ensure that you do have at the very least use a forged iron hand tool.
Can we just appreciate how much effort and research went into this video? Most videos take subjects like this jokingly, but this guy, nah he’s a PROFESSIONAL.
@@kimjongil4real I just really liked this video, and wanted to give a bit of encouragement. Doesn’t hurt anybody and benefits the creator by commenting. This comment section is a place to share thoughts about the video anyways. And I just wanted to share my opinion, and if many others already had the same thoughts as me, that’s great, means the creator has a bunch of fans.
@@kimjongil4real let people enjoy things life is short. Using your words to praise something is entirely okay and you're disrespecting them by trying to act like you own what they are allowed to say and feel and think. You don't.
You say a still would be too time consuming, however bamboo filled with water doesn't burn... You can use that to boil water be it brackish or still, or distill water from the ocean with it. Even boiling water with bamboo and just collecting the steam with a piece of clothing as a make shift "plug" will still collect the steam and life sustaining water. Also, it's easier to harvest a coconut with a sharpened stick lodged in the ground than to try and peel a coconut with a stone knife. Great video though!
this seems to be left out of nearly every survival thing i see but if you are wearing jeans, you can (LIGHTLY) scratch or shave them with a piece of bark, pocket knife or broken rock to make one of the best tinders there is. denim is just cotton so the fluff you create is not only extremely fluffy and easy to light, but burns cleanly too! ie you can use it to start a fire you intent to cook with as there wont be any bad impurities harmful chemicals in the smoke or fire! which is important, alot of things burn but not alot of things burn cleanly, especially manmade or processed things. cotton, being a flower from a plant is fine though and the dyes, even in cheap jeans, are perfectly fine :) lint from pockets also works and that kind of tinder can and will make lighting woodchips and shavings far far easier as getting wood to burn without an open flame tskes alot of heat, whereas cotton barely requires anything
A few things I’d add is, you can catch crustaceans with bait as well, if there are mussels or oysters, breaking one open with a rock can work as bait and generally that attracts crabs at the very least which aren’t quite as hard to catch
Survivorman has a great episode on this premise. It’s one of the nicer places he survives in despite having a rocky start and a lot of rain. He uses the boat wreckage to build a shelter and then scavenges trash on the beach to help get his fire started. Believe he also uses the boat propelled to make an improvised axe.
Interesting how abbreviated the SAS version of the universal edibility test is in comparison to the US Army version which takes 24 hours per part of each plant. Essentially, you're going to spend your starvation time trying to find parts of plants you can eat
i mean, as long as you have water and are able to catch fish/animals etc you wont die of nutrient deficiency until after a couple of months, while many plants are extremely toxic and can kill you within minutes. Its probably very dependent on the situation (ie have you been hunting/fishing successfully or do you have to resort to eating plants)
@@checker297 "resort to eating plants"? Let me guess, you don't like vegetables. Seriously, did you watch the video? Plants are an absolute necessity in a long term survival situation. It is impossible to get all of your nutrients from meat or plants alone, you have to eat both. And you can't be eating ANYTHING else during either universal edibility test.
@@jmi967 resort to eating plants within the first days because you're unable to acquire food in any other way for the time being. An unknown plant might be toxic but eating one more quickly may be better than dying of starvation.
It’s important to note that a medium sized coconut still has around 1500 calories. It’s a lifeline if you’re struggling with fish or can’t get food any other way.
35:10 smoky fires can also be used to slightly preserve foods, just hang your morsels near it and then they'll be stored in a space that bugs generally tend to avoid, and get a bit of potentially tasty smoky flavor. EDIT: as @bwackbeedows3629 pointed out this might not always be safe.
@oxygenenjoyer1712 @esk3let1c05 wasn't quite right, all woods can give off CO when burnt in some conditions, the problem with using some for smoking is that they have poisonous smoke.
@@KarolOfGutovo you could use burning embers and cover the food completely overnight for example, that way it would be too hot for insects to go in and start eating the left over food?
You actually can survive purely on fish, but you must eat the whole fish, this means cooking/boiling parts of the fish to ensure that they are clean. Fish also need proteins, carbs and nutrients to survive, so they will have them in their bodies.
I know inuit traditionally survived on almost 100% animal diet but from what I understand things like whale blubber and seal fat is very important for this and furthermore, eating it raw at least part of the time. Is their really enough vitamin C ie in fish not to get scurvy? Why then did sailors get it before they started bringing things like lemon juice?
@jonweman6128 when your not consuming carbs your bodies hormones change and you become more efficient at extracting vitamin C from food. As long as you're eating organ meats from fish you'll survive.
Faulty advice on starting fires. Don't try to create a flame with your bow drill fire-starter. Instead, cut a triangle notch in the base-board and drill on the corner of the triangle. The notch will fill with smoldering wood-dust and you put that in a bundle of tinder and blow on it or hold it in the wind until it burst into flames. Then put it immediately in your firepit and feed with kindling and fuel.
its made by nature. they get hit and then fire brakes out. This is to get rid of old trees and shit in woods. Then its growing again. Nature has it all my man
Informational, fun, highly educational (even though almost no one will ever need this information). 10/10. I live off of "useless" fun facts and this cured that last bit of an itch I had for island survival. This is my first video of yours that I've seen and I'll be ever intrigued. Keep this up and you'll have a wonderful niche audience. Edits as I notice grammatical errors.
We're all chuckling to ourselves because this is relatively useless, but you'll be pissed when you're stuck on an island and remember watching this video, but nothing it told you
Nothing is more useless than a person with no survival skills in a life or death scenario. Things can go bad very quick. Pandemics, world wars, supply chain interruptions, droughts, fires, civil unrest.. Nah, nothing like that could happen.
I am not sure if I am correct on this but finding a piece of flint stone could be really advantageous for survival, you can help with fire starting, flint is usually sharper than normal stone and when you inevitably run out of food and water, you can have a nice sharp tool to end it all.
Vines can be used to filter water as well. Make sure the water is flowing through them the way that it would naturally as the plant moves it from root to leaf. Can even use thin branches. Bend them and tie them in a u shape and use gravity to assist. Can even plug a bottle with one and turn it upside down.
Honestly my favorite part was the guy's PP at the beginning
Dude was packing
Me toi
I like the honesty
mines bigger guys
guys mine is bigger trust me
my favourite part is how i was wondering what it was till i realized
and the accuracy that you'd prolly be naked (well its showing primitive human survival so yeah)
Thanks this is very useful, I currently am stuck on a desert island and this video has saved me many times
Are you alive?
Can confirm, I was the island
@@isbee56are you desert?
@@mihailmilev9909 yes
Did you build your own PC or have it delivered?
I love how this looks like an analog horror series but it’s actually just a super chill guy giving good advice
analog horror is when VHS aesthetics
@@202reece5 also the unsettling painted (?) visuals
The real horror will appear when you try to apply his advice😈
@@202reece5 also unsetteling feeling while watching how to survive somewhere where you don't want to end up
CRT filter does not equal analog horror this is just a funny take on old how to/employee training videos
I can’t wait to be stuck on an island, use this advice to stay alive for years, completely lose sanity, and when I’m rescued years later and am asked how I survived I’ll just scream “HORSES”
i love you
@@chapocademesquitnobody loves you
@@TheReal_GigaChad beta behavior
Just paint a smiley face on a sphere using some blood, name it "Wilson", and you'll stave off the insanity ;)
Extremely real comment
I was marooned on a desert island last week and after setting up a signal fire I was able to get broadband. After that I made a simple computer from coconut shells and sea anemones powered by jellyfish. I came across this video on you tube, it gave me so many ideas on how to survive I could have lived quite comfortably for who knows how many weeks. I was actually in the process of installing solar panels made from very thin sheets of volcanic glass and palm leaves when a passing ship noticed the 10 metre seawalls I'd been building around the island as part of a futureproofing initiative for the rising sea levels. They came ashore and found me, thank god.
I'm glad you made it back safe lol.
hard part would be getting the permits for that stuff
Unironically lots of islands are sinking nowadays due to rising sea levels
Ive been stuck on this uncharted desert isle for years. There's a professor here but everytime he just about gets us saved, this jackass named Giligan fucks it up.
He's totally lying. I was on the ship that rescued him, in fact I was the one who found him on the beach his "10 metre sea walls" were a line of sticks on the sand and he was in the process of biting off his own toe nails because he "knows how to use them as staples". He's a dangerously crazy individual.
I like how Don't Starve includes sanity as one of the primary traits you have to maintain, like hunger and temp control, that's just good sense. A lot of good advice in your video, nice work.
As someone that never goes on overseas transport, and barely leaves my house, I found this guide very informative and helpful.
Same
Same
I was boutta type same but we are not starting a chain
Me too
same here. I watched it at 1:30 in the morning an was like I need to know this
😅 same here
Seriously, I've tried to explain the importance in survival situations of vitamins and minerals etc. I read once where a man survived 90 days at sea. He had cans of water. But he started craving various organs and parts of the fish he'd catch such as eyes and liver. Somehow his mind told his body what to eat. He survived. Listen to your body.
Liver is typically a tissue filled with many dangerous substances undergoing various processes of biological breakdown.
In other words, an awful gamble to make if you're going to eat liver, especially when in a weakened condition.
True, eating husky liver is what killed some arctic dudes
@guyman1570, This is false. Organ meats, including liver, have been a part of ancestral human diets since long before recorded history.
What if my body is telling me to eat a CruchWrap Supreme with extra cheese
@@guyman1570 while this is true for some animals, such as polar bears where they’re liver is so vitamin filled you’ll actually overdose on vitamins from eating it, it’s generally not the case with fish. Just about every fish organ is safe and edible (with very few exceptions like pufferfish as the video mentioned) and you should absolutely eat them if starving on a desert island. There’s vitamins and nutrients in organs that aren’t in the meat and they’ll help keep you alive. You just need to make sure they’re thoroughly cooked first, same as regular fish fillets
How to survive in a deserted island:
1:Have fun and be yourself❤
"Introduce yourself"
Such great advice in all scenarios
Plss 😭😭😭
Make sure you're all inclusive while you're there.😒
Start your each day with positive affirmations like "I can do this" 🤗
2 things:
once I eat only rice for 45+ days. I got sick... looked sick and started to develop infections from nowhere.
once I eat a unknown tree nut, very tasty. 30 minutes later my sense of smell was boosted to 300%. 15 minutes more I was vomiting like a rocket engine. A couple more moments later I was also shitting myself. No toilet paper, just leaves with allergic compounds. Very nice experience.
That sounds horrible. Were you stranded somewhere?
@@hoti47 almost that... I was camping and miscalculated the amount of food needed for the time I would stay. I had to experiment with local plants. Plants rarely do you any real harm, but mushrooms are much worse. I don't know how I'm still alive, it was a lot of luck.
@@lucianosschlieper damn, that must've been a pretty scary experience, glad you're still ok
shoulda done the plant testing explained in this video, aswell as avoiding hard berries or nuts that smell funny
Chris, is that you?
Dude stop with the jokes, i need tips fast. Im stranded and my phones on 3%
Bro you survived?
@@justarandomguy5558Guess not
Same! It's so slow!! 😢 🙏 🪦
OP is dead guys…
@pokepoke1889 hey it's me from the afterlife.. yep I'm dead
Really digging the 80s instructional video format!
Same
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It’s more 90’s
@@w花b Audio is what makes videos watchable tho, more than video quality, better use a good one
4:46 General Survival Tips
8:15 Finding Water
14:26 Survival Nutrition
20:16 Seafood
25:53 Eating Plants
28:35 Shelter
32:07 Fire
35:39 Cooking Food
38:11 Smoke Signalling
39:27 Making Tools
39:24 Escaping The Island?
Thank you, seriously.
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This video about island survival secretly has one of the best human nutrition breakdowns I’ve heard heard.
this should be pinned, just saying
last one sounds so Professor-ish... lol
I love the work training style of this video. I feel ready to begin my career as a “lost on a tropical island” employee.
23:07 My favorite type of media is when the audio is saying “DO NOT TOUCH THIS IT’LL KILL YOU” while a picture is shown of someone doing exactly that
This video is so soothing to me. It makes me feel that even if I was stranded on a desert island, everything will be fine.
just remember, if you skip eating plants, you WILL die!
I’m not sure why I’m watching this as if my survival depended on it…. But you made a video as convincing as can be….. well done. Hard work paid off
Same
Same here too. I live on an island but definitely not a deserted one.
Never know when you might need it!
Your watching for dopamine
Bro I’m watching this and I live in Oklahoma , 40 yrs old and never been more than 250 miles from home
"The beach is dangerous!
The sun will give you sun poisoning" and "avoid the sun!" In flashing text with this video style really gives me analogue horror vibes
*the sun is a deadly lazer*
Ah yes my favorite analogue horror... Reality!
Man, I had this video on with some white noise on and slept like a baby.
Not that it's boring content, but it's so chill and you speak very smoothly. Now I'm actually watching the video. It's very good!
*edited to change all the terrible mistakes Gboard makes on Android
your channel is what public access television would be if passionate people filled the ranks. love your style and topical acuity! your hard work is much appreciated!
Pro tip for moving in jungle environments: don’t touch a surface you can’t see.
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currently in seychelles, where the climate is quite tropical - i do not want to traverse on a hike and go to reach blindly for a tree trunk to move myself more efficiently, on the off chance i touch some goop or a snail
That's pretty good advice in general.
Step on a sharp creature with bare feet in the water while fishing. You will regret it bigly.
An important note with fire bows/plows: the wood you're working to get your powder is an important ingredient, not all wood is created equally. You need a very dry wood with relatively small grains. If you are having little luck with your current piece, it can be wise to find a different type of wood rather than wearing yourself out trying to work wood thats unsuitable
Brings me back to when I studied the SAS handbook as a twelve year old, preparing for inevitable disaster. Love it
Same here😂 I remember convincing my parents to buy a box full of canned food and supplies
Quick word from a Marine Ecologist. If digging through the sand for edibles avoid polychaetes (bristle worms) unless you know what you are looking at. Yes, some like the Palolo Worm are edible, but most are not. You really need to be absolutely sure of your identification.
That does not make them useless however, while they may be inedible for you they make great bait for catching fish or crustaceans, either on hook or in traps, and they can be dug up with relatively little effort. Certainly less effort than it would take to catch bait fish.
What you are really looking for though are various bivalves such as clams. Almost all of these are edible, but always make sure the shells are firmly shut before cooking them. If they are slightly open then discard them as you would mussels. Healthy bivalves will close up if they feel threatened.
Virtually all limpets are also edible, you need to knock them off the rock in one swift move, if you give them enough time to settle onto the rock, especially if they are on their home scar, they are damned near impossible to prise off. Its best to catch them as the tide is going out, when they are grazing. Don't even bother trying when the tide is out and they are settled on their home scar, it would be almost as easy just breaking the rock as it would be trying to prise them off it.
This is an awesome video!
A few minor nits
- The zebrafish you must be wary of are of the genus Pterois, not those Danio rerio sold in pet stores you had pictured.
- Crab lungs aren't poisonous, just gross.
Yep, I noticed these small errors as well. Additionally, the edible part of the sea urchin is actually its reproductive organ (despite sometimes being called sea urchin roe).
Really enjoyed the video overall, learned a lot of things in the off-chance I randomly wake up on a deserted island one day.
@TheErraticdream Also the SAS isn't really comparable with the Navy Seals, that's the SBS.
A thing I heard about the plant testing thing - do all of these to a boiled plant. Boiling makes plants safer, so it might ensure that you don't discard a plant that's edible when cooked.
yeah but wont boiling plants strip alot of the nutriants and vitamins out?
@@noah4822 they end up in the water you used to boil them, and you can always take the safe-when-boiled plant and test it again for if it's safe when uncooked
Edit: well, some nutrients do decompose under heat.
Also some nutrients became available only when cooked so it's usually a win-win to cook plants
@@fulvio3211 To be fair, the main thing you NEED plants for, that you can't substitute, is vitamin C which iirc readily decomposes at heat.
@@KarolOfGutovo steeping various evergreen (pine, fir, cedar, etc) needles in hot (not boiling) water to drink is a good way to extract vitamin C.
Another reason to avoid using rocks as a cooking surface is that, depending on the type of stone and its physical properties, you run the risk of the rock cracking open violently or even exploding due to heat expansion.
Another thing to note is that, you can avoid destroying wooden containers while using them to cook via boiling over a fire by ensuring the flames do not rise above the water level inside the container. The water will conduct the heat out of the container faster than it can burn this way. Besides using bamboo, wooden containers can be constructed using strips of inner tree bark either sown or folded together to make rudimentary cups and bowls (think of something like a Chinese take-out box, or a pocket-shapped sown container for inspiration).
Theory, theory and more theory. The practice is easier.
Facts
Gilligan used coconut shells and that's good enough for me.
Also tin foil (provided that this floats up as trash).
Avoid them as cooking surfaces? Yes, but why would you... Avoid the completely? No, heating rocks to throw into water to boil it is extremely useful. Of course might require testing so they don't explode, but generally safe, especially those you find by the sea
In Denmark, there is a show called Øen(The Island) where 14 people go to an island in Panama and have to survive for 30 days. A lot of these tips are demonstrated in the show. It's worth watching if you cancfind it with english subtitles.
Btw, crab lungs arent toxic. They just taste really bad.
Great vid.
Yea they're called Deadman where I'm from
@@josephjohnson6849 They are not toxic, but they are also not digestible, and they taste horrible.
Those shows always last a month because humans can last about a month without food if they have water.
Love how the letter ø gets to be “Island” all by itself
One of the first things i would do is make or obtain a sturdy walking staff. You can probe ahead in water, or on land. You can prevent slips and falls. Can be used for minor protection against critters.
i wasn't expecting this format, i loved it. its also well explained and not rushed as fast as possible like 99% of the videos about anything on youtube, so i actually paid attention and tried to understand what i could.
Part of me now worries that watching this has included me in a horror movie esk scenario where I am now a candidate to be captured during my sleep, made unconscious and dropped onto a dessert island filled with hidden cameras in an experiment to see how far my knowledge of this video alone can be used to survive there haha
You foreshadowed your own grim future.
Mmmm, a dessert island. I hope mine is fudge brownies.
Me too. lol
Truman Show: Survival version
Ha ha ha! no way! 😀👍
Could you make one for other climates? I think it would be cool to see how they compare
yeah it'd be cool to get this for a temperate/european climate, i wonder if its as dangerous as in the tropics
Deserts would amazing. However, I think nautical knowledge is Horses' specialty.
@@iwvks It´s considerably tougher, as you have the same dangers as the tropics + you´re constantly in danger of freezing to death.
@@Thetarget1also less wild fruits and fish. I was looking out into the woods and realized, it's much easier to catch tropical fish then to hunt small animals in a pine forrest
I'd like to see this too! Mountainous, forested, swamplands, desert and probably most helpful would be urban areas of different climates. Because let's face it, a MFer ending up homeless is a bigger threat than anything else these days.
Thank you for making a retro looking video that actually looks retro. It's usually overdone, but this one is done perfectly.
i really love this channel i can’t express how much i love everything, the visuals the narration the throughly researched info i can’t express how calming yet attention grabbing this channel is
There are two things worth mentioning here i think, first that for many it is possible to survive without consuming carbs, you can find some people living off a solely carnivore diet. Also eggs are likely to be available on a tropical island and contain nearly every nutrient the body requires short a single amino acid and vitamin c. The occasional egg could be the difference
You’re correct. Plenty of shipwrecked sailors ate birds eggs 🥚 and even the migrating birds 🦅/ 🐧 themselves.
0:05 omg weiner
Hehe😂 😂
LOL 🤣 WEINER
Just in case we missed the thing at the start of the video 🤣
Bro grow up
It's called a weewee
I like the demeanor of this guy. "Do not skip plants in your diet. You will die."
Me, who has been eating 98% meat for decades: 😕
Well, @@Skrenja, you will die
Just a matter of time
@@Skrenja98, but not 100
He builds amazing computers so I wouldn't doubt it 😂
@@the_infinexosif you knew anything about nutrition, then you would realize you dont need plants to survive
Also, dried coconut husks from the tree or from the fruit are incredibly useful for fire kindling. Also, coconuts do not have milk in it, it has liquid endosperm i.e. coconut water and hard, jelly-like endosperm. The dried coconut mentioned before hardens the 'coconut endosperm' gives coconut oil when crushed, or can be a high calorie snack if needed. It's a delicious thing, and very useful. Shoutout to coconuts 🔥
grating the meat of a mature coconut and pressed will give you coconut milk.
It's both. It's a regional thing. the liquid is either called water or milk depending where you live.
I ate a coconut once. When I finally got the damn thing open (it wasn't easy), there was no liquid inside, only a white interior that felt like eating a brick. My teeth hurt for days after I finally finished it, lol.
@@JohnGardnerAlhadisprolly an old coconut then?
Coconut fruit/meat is supposed to be soft. You probably had an old one @@JohnGardnerAlhadis
The mental game is understated on a lot of these guides.
I really appreciate your soft and gentle speaking, it's so nice to hear, and allows me to get into the story you are telling. It's a pleasant contrast to the crowd. Thank you for being you :) p.s. Your choice of music in addition to your voice creates a soothing hypnotic state.
This came to me recommended and I have to say, I'm very impressed with the honesty in here. No clickbait, no nothing, just good information. I salute you sir
I have been waterloss minimizing in my day to day life ever since I found this video and now im fitter and happier than I ever was before. I haven’t spoken a word in months, I just nose breathe - competely sober
This is a real work of art, as an editor myself, I do appreciate your style... the type setting and colours, very nicely done. ...A most pleasant escape you have created.
Lofi and hideously presented. I love it. 80s graphics, standard definition, muzak and sprite animations. Excellent.
If you manage to find a kettle or you made a pot out of clay, or just made a cup out of bamboo, it may be easier to boil water by throwing hot stones into the vessel than trying to boil it normally like you do it on your kitchen.
An important thing missing in the burning bamboo thing. Bamboo has pockets that explode and send ash and embers flying. If you only have it to burn make sure you split it first.
This is why “vitamin supplements” is the most underrated answer to “if you could choose (#) things to bring to a deserted island”
I would bring a helicopter.
@@WilhelmFreidrich do you know how to pilot a helicopter? Personally I’d bring my country, so America is just somewhere in the South Pacific instead of where it currently is.
Actually this would have its benefits, while being further from Europe is bad we are much closer to east Asia so it opens some nice trade opportunities
Best thing to bring is working Personal Locator Beacon.
@@PossessedPotatoBird I'd bring your mother.
Vitamin supplements are too finite
One of the best channels on UA-cam, great vid!
13:14 you can also put cloth clothing like a shirt wrapped around a stick over the boiling vessel to capture distilled steam to wring off as extra clean water. Reduces your net loss from boiling.
Once my deserted island gets Wifi this is going to come in really handy.
I’ve always loved the idea that I could survive in extreme conditions. When I found out I needed glasses when I was 10 I thought “damn maybe I wouldn’t have survived a few thousand years ago as a hunter gatherer.”. A few years after that I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and for some reason it’s so hard for me to live with the fact that I couldn’t even survive in some parts of the world today, and nowhere more than 100 years ago.
You would survive, the fact you are thinking about it gives you an edge ❤
@@ciaranobrien8709 nah, I give myself 2 weeks
Computers and phones can change the shape of your eyes so you could have been fine a long time ago
@@supersonicfan3522 read on, my friend
It's impossible to change the shape of ur eyes.. lmao!!
Legit stuff to add,;- 1, build a fish stockade trap (some were a mile of more long) between tide lines so any lingering fish are caught when the tide drops without any effort and they can be funneled to another covered pool (for birds) and kept alive for days. 2, rusty rocks may by pyrite and pyrite will spark if stuck with another hard stone. 3, a ring of fresh ashes is a partial deterrent around your "house" for insects and snakes ( I've slept right over a big piles of leaves I burned. Just swept-out a spot in the middle). 4. Eat brains and gonads. They are fat. You won't make it on lean meat as mentioned. Bones are food. Just paste them with a rock in your coconut cup I guess. 5. All polypore (gill-less) shelf mushrooms (no classic stalk) are not poisonous. Some will be wood like. The broth from cooked ones is nutritional no matter how tough they are. Ganaderma is global. 6, split bamboo are used as blades often. Dulls fast but there's more around easy. 7, spit on your cordage when you roll it on the top of your leg with your palm. Old ladies making the first ply for hemp rope chew leaves of something to keep it flowing. 8, rub mud into scales or feathers and coat the animal with a few inches of it and bake in the coals. When you peel ot off it takes the skin and you don't have to scale or pluck. 9. There are several tropical honeybees that are smaller and under leaves instead of in something. There's the only sugar you'll get and a known antibiotic and food preservative.
Love this video but it made me realize that I'm not getting nearly enough nutrition as someone who's NOT stranded on an island
I was thinking the same thing.
Yea same I don't eat enough fruits.
If you have plenty of loose rock available, you can also build tidal traps. They're built like a U or a V a few feet across with the open end pointed toward shore. They're basically a small, low wall you build on the part of the beach that becomes exposed at low tide. At high tide, the water overflows the trap, but when the water retreats at low tide they can trap or strand a number of fish in them. They're not super reliable but once built they can be a low-energy means of food gathering.
Is just love the creative tone of this. And it’s always useful to know not to eat crab lungs!
I loved it
I absolutely love this video! The information is delivered so well and feels rightly paced, as well as the whole visual aspect I CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT
Ah, stonefish! We call them rock puppies in Australia, and they're very common and the reason we like to wear fairly serious footwear in shallow ocean water
11:30 Do not just smash rocks into the coconut. Thats the fastest way to cut yourself. Use one sharp rock against the coconut, and smash that rock with a piece of wood, or another coconut if there isnt any wood around. Its a bit more awkward to do, but it mostly prevents any injuries.
Get a nice size strong, straight piece of stick about 3ft long. Sharpen both ends. Drive one end onto the ground about a foot deep. The sharp end that is pointing up can tear open a coconut in seconds with a little practice.
Can work with green coconuts, but work much better with brown coconuts.
If you're not going to climb the tree, you will most likely be harvesting brown coconuts anyway.
@@blackbwayit seems like making a spear is just a good idea in general. Probably not going to have any animals to stab with it on an island, but having a sharp stick is just so versatile
@@georgiykireev9678 Whenever I see sharp thing my monkey brain activates and tells me "yeah, I need that"
@@georgiykireev9678 A sharp stick is basically another appendage. Primal man has used it for thousands of years and it's basically one of the most simple and effective tools ever invented. Everything from creating levers to spearing or help when climbing. If you're in a survival situation and have a problem, you can probably solve or improve it with a stick. Sticks are just that incredible.
I don't know if you mentioned it, and I missed it, but SEAWEED is loaded with Vitamin A, B, C, E, antioxidants, and fiber. Most all seaweed is edible, however some species can be hard to digest, but it's everywhere and will be a good addition to the seafood.
Is there any chance you could make one but for the mountains or something? I really enjoy listening to your narration, it's very soothing and there's a far higher chance I'd be stranded there than some island in the pacific
The most stereotypical thing to watch late night.. thank you best 2-3am material I could've imagine
Been craving some chill commentary narratives lately, glad i stumbled upon you bro! Earned yourself a sub!
Right, nice!
Nice profile lol
Sometimes the infamously enigmatic algorithm hits the Spot. I (therefore 'it' ^^) discovered your channel today and it's causing quite a binge'ish afternoon. Great combination of visuals, topics & nuanced information. Thank you.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
BTW thanks for showing how to spell binge'ish.
Same but it was a few days ago and I added it to my watch later
Bamboo fact :
1. The surface has a lot of mini sharp hairs that can cause skin irritation. (very annoying and quite hard to get rid) you should clean it before processing
2. Unsplitted bamboo is basically a continuous chamber separated by joints, so it'll explode if you burn it
3. Some bamboo chamber can contain water or larva inside
( I live in tropical country)
when trying to survive, it's good to remember the rule of 3s
a human can survive:
- 3 minutes without oxygen
- 3 hours without heat
- 3 days without water
- 3 weeks without food
just so you have some priorities
If there's any chance your desert island is in the Caribbean, you should learn in advance to recognise the manchineel tree. This can kill you just with prolonged contact, even if you don't ingest it.
They can kill you without you even coming into contact with it. You just need to stand under one while it's raining and then your skin will blister from the sap dissolved in the water. And then if the blisters get infected, Bye bye.
The first thing I thought of when he said to prioritize fruits. Manchineel apples kill. 💀
I've lived in the Caribbean for most of my life and I don't know this plant in person. I've been seeing it on the internet time after time since the past 8 years. Being searching for it in person, haven't found it yet.
@@blackbway I've seen one on St. John, USVI. I was all :O but my cousin who's from there was just like "oh yeah just don't touch it, it's fine".
just use the process for determining safety of vegetation, the machineel hurts apparently so it will become apparent quickly
I remember reading the SAS guide again and again as a teenager. I remember the “rub the plant on the inside of your elbow” part, the distilling methods and the shelter types. I’m happy to report that no skill learned from the boos has ever been needed, so far
I have used a rope harness from 80s combat and survival mags.
Not alot of people talk about how genius the editing is
@@whiterottenrabbitfound the guy who doesn’t get invited to parties
@@whiterottenrabbit this but unironically
@@jaxsolaris1177 I bet most people using that line don't either
@@heroe1486 I AM the party
You forgot something.
Look for the Island resort on the other side of the Island and join any resort festivities.
The artwork on these videos is just fantastic! I love how it breaks with all youtube conventions
Finally, a step by step guide on how to escape modernity! But how do I reach my new island paradise?
crashing your plane is a must
But be careful not to let cannibals steal your kid.
Get a job at UPS, make a plan to propose to your significant other & then board the doomed aircraft. Maybe go to the dentist before that, just for convenience.
@@thedrugthatkilled- I think you mean FedEx, not UPS.
@@dongately2817 fed ex is so 10 yrs ago... modernize maaaaan
Thanks, I'm in the Philippines and my tour guide left me on one the islands, this is my second day. Appreciate the help
Love the plant edibility test, I’ve been subconsciously conducting that test on kale and sprouts for years!!! But seriously; thanks to all the crazy people who ate poisonous plants so we could cross them off the list 🤭
I'm still trying to figure out how someone discovered how to make pokeweed edible. You have to boil it, drain it, cool then boil it again, to make it safe to eat, and this is only for the young leaves and stems. So who was it that watched his buddy die eating it raw, then watched another buddy die after boiling it up, and figured "maybe if I boil it a second time?"
@@yaemz123 probably less poison in the young ones and leached out or destroyed or both
What a great and really enjoyable, informative video.
I love the relaxing "holiday" music in the background as if describing bring on holidays, not surviving!
With my short attention span, I think being alone like this would kill me fast
I spent a week in the woods with nothing. At the time I was an avid reader.
Anyway. The way you survive is slowly. You don’t waste calories by moving fast or making useless movements. So during the day you are busy because there is a lot of little things to do just for comfort and a lot of big things that are needed for life..
But it is when it gets dark if you can’t sleep it is insane how you miss distraction. Any kind of distraction…
The first evening as you watch the darkness grow is maddening. Waking up scared and not knowing why while laying in the dark is the worse..
i love everything about this video, the topic is interesting and the way you show it in the video is fun and intresting
Easy. Just find your nearest tree, break it, and then use it to build a crafting table. Break some grass for seeds, make a hoe, and you’re set. Just make sure to build a shelter to avoid mobs at night ✅
Where can i find diamonds on my Island??
@@Laku987654321Find a cave, if there isn’t one you’ll have to go mining. I recommend strip mining as you have access to more surrounding stone. Just let it be known, the diamonds won’t be usable if you mine them without the proper tools, so ensure that you do have at the very least use a forged iron hand tool.
@Laku987654321 dig a spiral staircase to Y level -15 to avoid the ocean.
hey,will there be sheep for the bed
@@salmonturkey-h6w most likely not as they spawn on grass and not sand or moss that you will find regularly
Can we just appreciate how much effort and research went into this video? Most videos take subjects like this jokingly, but this guy, nah he’s a PROFESSIONAL.
@@kimjongil4real I just really liked this video, and wanted to give a bit of encouragement. Doesn’t hurt anybody and benefits the creator by commenting. This comment section is a place to share thoughts about the video anyways. And I just wanted to share my opinion, and if many others already had the same thoughts as me, that’s great, means the creator has a bunch of fans.
@@kimjongil4real let people enjoy things life is short. Using your words to praise something is entirely okay and you're disrespecting them by trying to act like you own what they are allowed to say and feel and think. You don't.
You say a still would be too time consuming, however bamboo filled with water doesn't burn... You can use that to boil water be it brackish or still, or distill water from the ocean with it. Even boiling water with bamboo and just collecting the steam with a piece of clothing as a make shift "plug" will still collect the steam and life sustaining water.
Also, it's easier to harvest a coconut with a sharpened stick lodged in the ground than to try and peel a coconut with a stone knife.
Great video though!
The graphic representations are so realistic I feel like I'm on the island right now watching this. A+.
this seems to be left out of nearly every survival thing i see but if you are wearing jeans, you can (LIGHTLY) scratch or shave them with a piece of bark, pocket knife or broken rock to make one of the best tinders there is. denim is just cotton so the fluff you create is not only extremely fluffy and easy to light, but burns cleanly too! ie you can use it to start a fire you intent to cook with as there wont be any bad impurities harmful chemicals in the smoke or fire! which is important, alot of things burn but not alot of things burn cleanly, especially manmade or processed things. cotton, being a flower from a plant is fine though and the dyes, even in cheap jeans, are perfectly fine :) lint from pockets also works and that kind of tinder can and will make lighting woodchips and shavings far far easier as getting wood to burn without an open flame tskes alot of heat, whereas cotton barely requires anything
Whole new meaning to denim hot pants
Glad i get to experience this chanel before its gonna blow up because of the outstanding thoughtfulness that goes into production of these videos
A few things I’d add is, you can catch crustaceans with bait as well, if there are mussels or oysters, breaking one open with a rock can work as bait and generally that attracts crabs at the very least which aren’t quite as hard to catch
Survivorman has a great episode on this premise.
It’s one of the nicer places he survives in despite having a rocky start and a lot of rain.
He uses the boat wreckage to build a shelter and then scavenges trash on the beach to help get his fire started.
Believe he also uses the boat propelled to make an improvised axe.
Such a banger Video, please make a sequel
this is without a doubt one of my favorite channels on yt.
Interesting how abbreviated the SAS version of the universal edibility test is in comparison to the US Army version which takes 24 hours per part of each plant.
Essentially, you're going to spend your starvation time trying to find parts of plants you can eat
i mean, as long as you have water and are able to catch fish/animals etc you wont die of nutrient deficiency until after a couple of months, while many plants are extremely toxic and can kill you within minutes. Its probably very dependent on the situation (ie have you been hunting/fishing successfully or do you have to resort to eating plants)
@@checker297 "resort to eating plants"? Let me guess, you don't like vegetables.
Seriously, did you watch the video? Plants are an absolute necessity in a long term survival situation. It is impossible to get all of your nutrients from meat or plants alone, you have to eat both.
And you can't be eating ANYTHING else during either universal edibility test.
@@jmi967 resort to eating plants within the first days because you're unable to acquire food in any other way for the time being. An unknown plant might be toxic but eating one more quickly may be better than dying of starvation.
@@jmi967I am calling BS. You can live off meat alone for a very long time.
@Skrenja look at inuit of the artic. They do eat plants, but nothing much. Mostly a meat based diet.
Never seen an editing style like this and I absolutely love it. Great job man!
It’s important to note that a medium sized coconut still has around 1500 calories. It’s a lifeline if you’re struggling with fish or can’t get food any other way.
This is a very well edited and crafted video !! Loved the background music vibes
35:10 smoky fires can also be used to slightly preserve foods, just hang your morsels near it and then they'll be stored in a space that bugs generally tend to avoid, and get a bit of potentially tasty smoky flavor.
EDIT: as @bwackbeedows3629 pointed out this might not always be safe.
That depends on the fuel being used. Plenty of wood that's useful for burning can be deadly if used for food preservation.
@oxygenenjoyer1712carbon monoxide
@@esk3let1c05I don't think that's the correct answer
@oxygenenjoyer1712 @esk3let1c05 wasn't quite right, all woods can give off CO when burnt in some conditions, the problem with using some for smoking is that they have poisonous smoke.
@@KarolOfGutovo you could use burning embers and cover the food completely overnight for example, that way it would be too hot for insects to go in and start eating the left over food?
I'm pretty sure this channel will be huge in a year or two. Great work!
You actually can survive purely on fish, but you must eat the whole fish, this means cooking/boiling parts of the fish to ensure that they are clean. Fish also need proteins, carbs and nutrients to survive, so they will have them in their bodies.
I know inuit traditionally survived on almost 100% animal diet but from what I understand things like whale blubber and seal fat is very important for this and furthermore, eating it raw at least part of the time. Is their really enough vitamin C ie in fish not to get scurvy? Why then did sailors get it before they started bringing things like lemon juice?
@@jonweman6128sailors often took food with them. Which meant a lot of dried and otherwise preserved food as opposed to whole fresh fish
@@jonweman6128also sailors often go through large areas which aren’t inhabited by enough fish to live off
@jonweman6128 when your not consuming carbs your bodies hormones change and you become more efficient at extracting vitamin C from food. As long as you're eating organ meats from fish you'll survive.
How could you boil things if you don’t have a pan?
Thank you for the guide. It was long, informative and relaxing with the vibe.
Faulty advice on starting fires. Don't try to create a flame with your bow drill fire-starter. Instead, cut a triangle notch in the base-board and drill on the corner of the triangle. The notch will fill with smoldering wood-dust and you put that in a bundle of tinder and blow on it or hold it in the wind until it burst into flames. Then put it immediately in your firepit and feed with kindling and fuel.
well, not necessarily faulty but you gave a better updated version
I’ve always heard the warnings about tall solitary trees but never really understood how the tree gets that tall if it's that prone to being struck.
maybe it didn't grew as a solitary tree, but due to things happening became alone ? idk man
Lots of other tall trees that the lightning angels hate more/need to destroy first
its made by nature. they get hit and then fire brakes out. This is to get rid of old trees and shit in woods. Then its growing again. Nature has it all my man
Its the last one standing
lightning often misses its target so even if the tree itself doesn't get struck, the surroundig area will
Informational, fun, highly educational (even though almost no one will ever need this information).
10/10. I live off of "useless" fun facts and this cured that last bit of an itch I had for island survival.
This is my first video of yours that I've seen and I'll be ever intrigued. Keep this up and you'll have a wonderful niche audience.
Edits as I notice grammatical errors.
We're all chuckling to ourselves because this is relatively useless, but you'll be pissed when you're stuck on an island and remember watching this video, but nothing it told you
Nothing is more useless than a person with no survival skills in a life or death scenario. Things can go bad very quick. Pandemics, world wars, supply chain interruptions, droughts, fires, civil unrest.. Nah, nothing like that could happen.
@@scottashe984You basically restated my point, but without any subtlety
I am not sure if I am correct on this but finding a piece of flint stone could be really advantageous for survival, you can help with fire starting, flint is usually sharper than normal stone and when you inevitably run out of food and water, you can have a nice sharp tool to end it all.
😂 Good point!
Vines can be used to filter water as well. Make sure the water is flowing through them the way that it would naturally as the plant moves it from root to leaf. Can even use thin branches. Bend them and tie them in a u shape and use gravity to assist. Can even plug a bottle with one and turn it upside down.