Will be interesting to hear Danny's story when he eventually escapes from Simon's basement. Years of tortured, feverish writing while chained to the radiator. Drinking Radiator moonshine mixed with Beard Blaze oil and Rotting Turtle while cultivating mushrooms from the basement dirt to go with his Frey Bentoes pies and pot noodles.
7:00 - I was about to correct you when you said she was the only survivor of the crash but then you kinda corrected yourself a few sentences later when you mentioned her mother had also survived the crash, but died a few days later. Yeah, there was evidence that around a dozen ppl survived the crash, but because they stayed with the wreckage expecting to be rescued they ultimately died when no rescue came. Had she done the same instead of leaving to find a way out of the jungle it most likely would've been her fate to. Another tid bit for her survival - she ate what she saw the monkeys in the jungle eating. She knew if it was safe for them, it was safe for her.
Look into Aimo Koivunen. He accidentally overdosed on meth (Pervitin) when retreating from Soviet soldiers in the Continuation War, lost his weapons/compass, burned down his shelter while still inside, survived 2 mines and 2 weeks in Finnish winter wilderness alone while eating raw birds, eventually being found. It's an absolutely insane survival story.
Qxir just recently covered it, and did an amazing job at covering it. Please don't try to get a channel to copy another channel a week after a video is put out. If you want to hear it - watch Qxir. Which im sure you already have. Simon and Dan do an amazing job at finding content. They dont need to appear as if they are copying other channels.
@@thinlineofsanity1035 Apologies, I was not aware Qxir had done it recently. I was just offering it up for the inevitable "5 MORE Extreme Survival Tales" in the future.
@@thinlineofsanity1035 Never heard of Qxir, no idea what content is there and no intention of adding another channel but I would watch a SW vid on any subject. And just because there's a vid made doesn't mean it needs to be released at a specific time.
@@andiward7068 oh boy... please give qxir a go, I beg you, because he is amazing. I'd rather not even attempt to describe his style, but if you like Simon's channels, I put my word on it that you'll frigging love qxir! Ps watch the "tales from the bottles" vids especially, the one mentioned above Is a great first watch in fact.
The last story reminded me of something similar occurring near where I live a couple decades ago. A high school student went off the road and down an embankment. There was a search for him, but for some reason they didn’t think to look in the area he was in. This happened in early summer. He was discovered in autumn, after the brush died and his car was more easily visible. Apparently he survived the crash, but he was trapped in the car. They found evidence he survived for over a week before his body finally gave out
a really cool historical survival story is that of william bligh and his crew after the mutiny on the bounty. bligh (former captain of the bounty) and 18 others were put in a 23 foot lifeboat with only enough food and water for about a week and were nearly 4200 miles away from the nearest european settlement. bligh was an expert navigator and managed to get there in 47 days with only one casualty from an encounter with hostile natives in tofua, though some of the crew succumbed to sickness and weakness post-arrival. he wrote a book about it which goes into more detail.
Definitely should do more episodes on this topic! There could be a dozen 15 minute videos of amazing survival stories. The guy who survived in a sunken boat for 3 days. The British SAS operator that had to walk out of Iraq to Syria in the Gulf War. Thousands of amazing tales of human endurance.
It’s not a survival thing… but two years ago I nearly died of starvation because my digestive system shut down (I have complex gastrointestinal disorders) and I couldn’t even keep water down. I was in hospital for two months, we started with an NJ tube (nose to intestine) but my body couldn’t cope, and I was getting sicker and sicker. After two weeks (and 3 tubes!) I ended up on TPN (a picc tube is fed in to the upper arm in to the heart and specialist liquid nutrients are pumped in slowly over several hours a day). At first I had to have a single bag for 48hrs, and then it was worked up to 12hrs. After a week I was well enough to try actual food again. Then I got sepsis! But thankfully recovered and just barely managed to stay out of ICU, thankfully the ward I was on was a specialist support ward with higher staff ratios anyways… Finally a few weeks later (having lost much more weight!) I was well enough to go home. Since then I have fought to keep things in. But it’s only a matter of time until it happens again really! Some weird things: when you are genuinely starving, you crave fats and sugars, I would probably have eaten pure butter! You also start to lose your brain power. It’s like things are confusing and sometimes too hard to think. But I had no idea how slow my mind had got until I was on TPN and suddenly felt myself again!
Love extraordinary tales of survival. This video makes me think of that show "I Survived"... The stories are amazing, captivating. It's truly amazing what we as humans are capable of overcoming even in the trying of circumstances. Love it.
Wish you would do a story about Leopold Engleitner. He survived four concentration camps, the war, and lived to be 107. Before his death in 2013 he was the oldest male survivor of the Holocaust. There is also Simone Liebster who was taken by the Germans when she was 9 years old. They are true survivors and didn't kill anyone like Hiroo Onoda.
Once I got stuck in the San Francisco air port late at night for like 6 hours. The only food I could find was some nasty sushi place and a yoga room. The horrors...I could have died!
4:08 Oh they probably saw him, they just had a schedule to keep or just plain ignored him like a housecat. If walking in the middle of nowhere don't expect a car to pick up hitchhikers these days either.
That's not likely. Seamen are a different breed and having worked with them they don't mess around with signs of distress. It's really easy to miss a flare, much easier than you might think. Especially during daytime.
Was just googling to find what I'd get my husband for Father's day. Somthing considerate, playful, and useful to my husband. This video came on the tv and I stopped my search. Beard Blaze. Perfect. Simon coming through to save the day again.
You might want to look into the story of LT COL William Rankin, The Man Who Rode the Thunder. He ejected from an F-8 Crusader at an altitude of 47,000 feet over a thunderstorm and was caught in it, taking some 40 minutes to descend through a storm, observing lightning only feet away from him, being tossed by updrafts above his parachute, and exposed to extremes of cold and low pressure. I have his book and it is a well documented event.
Check out Joe Simpson, author of Touching The Void. Badly broke his leg on a mountaineering trip. While his partner single handly lower him off the mountain, Simpson became trapped suspended over a huge glacier crevasse ... Utterly gripping book! Both Simpson and his partner, Yeats survived!
I remember watching the Werner Herzog documentary about Juliane Koepcke. I can honestly say this is the only documentary I've ever watched with my mouth wide open in amazement for nearly its entire duration.
Yeah, well, once I received full fat soy milk in my half-decaf caramel mocha-frappa-chino instead of lo-fat. I ,too, have suffered. Any film producers are welcome to contact me regarding my journey.
I was trapped for 9 years. It was almost unbearable. When I was rescued, I was a broken man, surviving off of beer and porn. I was finally rescued by a divorce...
I legit thought, from your first sentence, that you were one of those women/girls held hostage by some man in his basement for 9 years. No. You were, AT WILL, in a marriage that made you unhappy. Take responsibility for your own life, guy. This is absurdly dramatic and pampered.
I was rescued by the mother-in-law crashing her broom stick one night, whilst she was not paying attention where she was headed. Mount Everest has never been the same since.
Please look into Peter Bird(UK), the Father of modern ocean rowing , the first man to row solo across the pacific ( USA to Australia), the longest time at sea solo, the longest distance rowed solo by a human at the time , sadly lost at sea on an attempt to cross from Russia through the sea of japan to America . An absolute legend, father, friend and my uncle. In those days they just had an idea and dream of adventure , built a boat and went off into the blue; no satnav ,no internet , no weather updates, just the occasional radio contact. True Adventurers
I was hoping for the guy that collapsed on the top part of Everest. Other climbers coming down thought he was dead and left him (not that anyone could have carried him down). The guy turned up in camp in the middle of the night. He'd gotten back up and did it under his own power. (Covered in the book, "Into Thin Air".)
Imagine living in the jungle for 30 years fighting a war that over for nearly that whole time, then returning to your home to find things like anime, jpop, close political ties to the enemy country you were aposed to 30 years before and that it had been nuked twice by that same country.
My vote(s) would be for two stories that surpass anything in this video except the girl who fell in a piece of an exploded airplane and survived. It doesn't get much crazier than that. There's another story of a woman who survived a passenger jet explosion in Europe, including a fall of like 30000 feet in the tail section of a 747. Anyway, for those with, shall we say, an appetite for the extreme, look no farther than the book _Alive_ by Piers Paul Read. It's the harrowing and, uh really gut-churning story about how some members of a Latin American soccer team survived a plane crash at extreme altitude in the Andes mountains (think desolate, like the North Pole, like Antarctica, like Mt Everest) by cannibalizing the bodies of those on the team who didn't survive the crash. Had to read it in college about thirty years ago and regretted it ever since. According to that book the least palatable parts of the human body are the brain and the genitals. Point taken. Ugh. But my vote for number 1 unbelievable survival tale comes from a book I read as a teenager about bears. There was a story in it about an American Indian man who went to hunt a bear for food. He shot the bear once with a very powerful rifle. He approached the bear, which appeared to be dead, and put his rifle down before making absolutely sure of that. Well the bear wasn't quite dead, and when the Indian stuck his knife in the bear intending to gut and skin it, the bear came alive and swatted him once in the head. This bear was later weighed at over 300 pounds and that one blow stripped the flesh and skin off the man's face and torso such that his facial skin and musculature was hanging down his chest like a bib. He was also blind. The bear died shortly thereafter. This man, utterly blind and bleeding like crazy and probably also in an unbelievable amount of pain, crawled sightless on his hands and knees through the woods for like ten miles before someone finally found him and took him to the hospital. He survived, extremely disfigured and almost completely blind in one eye but vision in the other was preserved and he eventually went back to living the same sort of wilderness life he'd led before his injury. That's what you call a serious will for survival.
Minor mistake but at 9:36 but you said the "war had been over since October" even though Hirohito announced surrender in August and it officially ended in September
Regarding Callahan... Orca whales have been recorded attacking boats. Doesn't seem aggressive, just a game for them. Same area of the sea, it's just this pods pastime if you ask me www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/buqvasp1rr/orcas-spain-portugal
I mean in hindsight, if it was the same pod, his survival was because of abandoning ship to a craft with less sonic signature. The orcas would have continued playing games ramming the ship as he floated away to survival.
Have you heard of José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who was found on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean, he was blown off course by a storm that lasted five days in mexico and was found alive more than a year and 6,700 miles later
I don’t want to be that guy but koepcka’s story of growing up in South America as a child of German immigrants in the mid 20th century kinda raised some red flags as to why a German scientist moved to Peru in 1947 …
I get the ad plug, but my 1 item, and I'm a combat veteran, is a sturdy knife. None of that folding stuff. Yes, I have one like that, but a full tang knife... If you know how to use it, you will survive.
I read a book about Steven CAllahan a few years ago - cant remember if it was written by him or an autobiography - his story of survival was crazy. Im 99.9% sure I would not have made it
@@pmberkeley That was it, thanks! I Read it while I was in the hospital recovering from an illness, it was a great distraction even though I read it in a day
I figured she had brain injuries when you mentioned she broke out the driver's side window. Since in the pictures of the jeep, the roof had been ripped almost off and it would have been easier to climb out the top.
Will be interesting to hear Danny's story when he eventually escapes from Simon's basement. Years of tortured, feverish writing while chained to the radiator. Drinking Radiator moonshine mixed with Beard Blaze oil and Rotting Turtle while cultivating mushrooms from the basement dirt to go with his Frey Bentoes pies and pot noodles.
🤣🤣🤣
Brilliantly funny indeed! I loved your joking comments! 🤣🤣🤣
Allegedly.
Don't forget the random beatings by a morningstar wielding beard monster who smells of peanut butter cereal.
Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
7:00 - I was about to correct you when you said she was the only survivor of the crash but then you kinda corrected yourself a few sentences later when you mentioned her mother had also survived the crash, but died a few days later.
Yeah, there was evidence that around a dozen ppl survived the crash, but because they stayed with the wreckage expecting to be rescued they ultimately died when no rescue came.
Had she done the same instead of leaving to find a way out of the jungle it most likely would've been her fate to.
Another tid bit for her survival - she ate what she saw the monkeys in the jungle eating. She knew if it was safe for them, it was safe for her.
"A view of Heaven from a seat in Hell." Wow!
Chills. That one sentence allowed me to feel more of his journey than the rest of the script. Excellent writing, perfect delivery.
@@IrishMike22 exactly
deep!
Look into Aimo Koivunen. He accidentally overdosed on meth (Pervitin) when retreating from Soviet soldiers in the Continuation War, lost his weapons/compass, burned down his shelter while still inside, survived 2 mines and 2 weeks in Finnish winter wilderness alone while eating raw birds, eventually being found. It's an absolutely insane survival story.
Qxir just recently covered it, and did an amazing job at covering it.
Please don't try to get a channel to copy another channel a week after a video is put out.
If you want to hear it - watch Qxir.
Which im sure you already have.
Simon and Dan do an amazing job at finding content. They dont need to appear as if they are copying other channels.
@@thinlineofsanity1035 Apologies, I was not aware Qxir had done it recently. I was just offering it up for the inevitable "5 MORE Extreme Survival Tales" in the future.
@@thinlineofsanity1035 Never heard of Qxir, no idea what content is there and no intention of adding another channel but I would watch a SW vid on any subject. And just because there's a vid made doesn't mean it needs to be released at a specific time.
@@andiward7068 oh boy... please give qxir a go, I beg you, because he is amazing. I'd rather not even attempt to describe his style, but if you like Simon's channels, I put my word on it that you'll frigging love qxir!
Ps watch the "tales from the bottles" vids especially, the one mentioned above Is a great first watch in fact.
I really, really liked this. Weirdly enjoyable stories of survival.
Agreed.. more like this please.
Look up Harrison Okene.
Thanks for the tip about following a stream when lost in the wild.
Another tip is to walk downhill. Walking downhill leads to streams.
I'm certain this video could turn into a series in itself, and I would very much like that.
You should check out mrballen ‘s channel! I think you’d like his series on this topic, but I too hope Simon makes more on here
He'd have to hatch a new clone to keep up.
@@andiward7068 right? I already dont understand how he manages to keep up with everything he's already making!
@@pb9611 im just watching "part 21" of one of his series. I'm only a few minutes in but im subbing already. Thanks for the recommendation!
Knowing Simon he's gonna create a channel out of it
The last story reminded me of something similar occurring near where I live a couple decades ago. A high school student went off the road and down an embankment. There was a search for him, but for some reason they didn’t think to look in the area he was in. This happened in early summer. He was discovered in autumn, after the brush died and his car was more easily visible. Apparently he survived the crash, but he was trapped in the car. They found evidence he survived for over a week before his body finally gave out
That’s so sad. May he rest in peace.
That is very tragic and high on my list of ways I do NOT want to go out of this world.
a really cool historical survival story is that of william bligh and his crew after the mutiny on the bounty. bligh (former captain of the bounty) and 18 others were put in a 23 foot lifeboat with only enough food and water for about a week and were nearly 4200 miles away from the nearest european settlement. bligh was an expert navigator and managed to get there in 47 days with only one casualty from an encounter with hostile natives in tofua, though some of the crew succumbed to sickness and weakness post-arrival. he wrote a book about it which goes into more detail.
These stories are pretty amazing. The human will to survive can be undefeatable. I'd love to see more of these, please.
Definitely should do more episodes on this topic! There could be a dozen 15 minute videos of amazing survival stories. The guy who survived in a sunken boat for 3 days. The British SAS operator that had to walk out of Iraq to Syria in the Gulf War. Thousands of amazing tales of human endurance.
Simon: "I don't have some sort of giant, monster sized hands. Just regular sized hands"
*nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, Say. No. More.*
The fact I’ve watched this channel for years and I still have videos I haven’t watched is truly impressive.
It’s not a survival thing… but two years ago I nearly died of starvation because my digestive system shut down (I have complex gastrointestinal disorders) and I couldn’t even keep water down.
I was in hospital for two months, we started with an NJ tube (nose to intestine) but my body couldn’t cope, and I was getting sicker and sicker. After two weeks (and 3 tubes!) I ended up on TPN (a picc tube is fed in to the upper arm in to the heart and specialist liquid nutrients are pumped in slowly over several hours a day). At first I had to have a single bag for 48hrs, and then it was worked up to 12hrs. After a week I was well enough to try actual food again.
Then I got sepsis!
But thankfully recovered and just barely managed to stay out of ICU, thankfully the ward I was on was a specialist support ward with higher staff ratios anyways…
Finally a few weeks later (having lost much more weight!) I was well enough to go home.
Since then I have fought to keep things in.
But it’s only a matter of time until it happens again really!
Some weird things: when you are genuinely starving, you crave fats and sugars, I would probably have eaten pure butter! You also start to lose your brain power. It’s like things are confusing and sometimes too hard to think. But I had no idea how slow my mind had got until I was on TPN and suddenly felt myself again!
Jeez, you certainly had a rough go at it. I hope things are going well for you now.
Love extraordinary tales of survival. This video makes me think of that show "I Survived"... The stories are amazing, captivating. It's truly amazing what we as humans are capable of overcoming even in the trying of circumstances. Love it.
Wish you would do a story about Leopold Engleitner. He survived four concentration camps, the war, and lived to be 107. Before his death in 2013 he was the oldest male survivor of the Holocaust. There is also Simone Liebster who was taken by the Germans when she was 9 years old. They are true survivors and didn't kill anyone like Hiroo Onoda.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Steven callahan
5:30 - Chapter 2 - Juliane Koepcke
8:25 - Chapter 3 - Hiroo onoda
12:05 - Chapter 4 - Angela hernandez
Please do a video on LIGO. The station that was built to detect gravitational waves!
Gravity wave = space-time ripple. No such thing as 'gravity'.
More of these, please, Simon!
Sitting in the mountains with a beautiful view and Simon vids playing in the background 👌🍻👍
Once I got stuck in the San Francisco air port late at night for like 6 hours. The only food I could find was some nasty sushi place and a yoga room. The horrors...I could have died!
What about Harrison Okene? He was a ships cook trapped 100 meters underwater in the Jascon 4 for 3 days and survived.
4:08 Oh they probably saw him, they just had a schedule to keep or just plain ignored him like a housecat. If walking in the middle of nowhere don't expect a car to pick up hitchhikers these days either.
That's not likely. Seamen are a different breed and having worked with them they don't mess around with signs of distress. It's really easy to miss a flare, much easier than you might think. Especially during daytime.
Was just googling to find what I'd get my husband for Father's day. Somthing considerate, playful, and useful to my husband. This video came on the tv and I stopped my search. Beard Blaze. Perfect. Simon coming through to save the day again.
And order placed before the video was over!
I'm just here for more Simon Whistler lol love you man.
You might want to look into the story of LT COL William Rankin, The Man Who Rode the Thunder. He ejected from an F-8 Crusader at an altitude of 47,000 feet over a thunderstorm and was caught in it, taking some 40 minutes to descend through a storm, observing lightning only feet away from him, being tossed by updrafts above his parachute, and exposed to extremes of cold and low pressure. I have his book and it is a well documented event.
More of these PLEASE
Check out Joe Simpson, author of Touching The Void. Badly broke his leg on a mountaineering trip. While his partner single handly lower him off the mountain, Simpson became trapped suspended over a huge glacier crevasse ... Utterly gripping book! Both Simpson and his partner, Yeats survived!
I remember watching the Werner Herzog documentary about Juliane Koepcke. I can honestly say this is the only documentary I've ever watched with my mouth wide open in amazement for nearly its entire duration.
The guy named his boat Napoleon Solo? He had to have been a “The Man From UNCLE” fan.
Archie Bunker
These were great. Thanks Simon.
I am actually growing a moustache and a beard, so I think I will get some Beard Blaze stuff. Then I will BLAZE MY BEARD OUT!!!
legend
The Juliane Koepcke story was local lore where I grew up, good to see that story here.
Great video. Like survival stories.
History lover and love how you explain it Ty
Yeah, well, once I received full fat soy milk in my half-decaf caramel mocha-frappa-chino instead of lo-fat. I ,too, have suffered. Any film producers are welcome to contact me regarding my journey.
No one cares about stories from Liberals and their so-called “suffering”
Very interesting video thank you very much for doing it good
Quality video! The story of the 30 year war is incredible! If there's any more interesting detail I'd enjoy a full length video on that
Congrats on the new product launch!
The confluence of events in the Hiroo Onoda story is utterly unimaginable.
Gobsmackedly amazing stories of survival, beats Bear Grylies's TV shows anyday!
I can't wait to try your beard stuff. Great video, keep it up!
I was trapped for 9 years. It was almost unbearable. When I was rescued, I was a broken man, surviving off of beer and porn.
I was finally rescued by a divorce...
Wow, men can be such crybabies.
I legit thought, from your first sentence, that you were one of those women/girls held hostage by some man in his basement for 9 years.
No. You were, AT WILL, in a marriage that made you unhappy. Take responsibility for your own life, guy. This is absurdly dramatic and pampered.
I was rescued by the mother-in-law crashing her broom stick one night, whilst she was not paying attention where she was headed. Mount Everest has never been the same since.
Holy s dude! You're ex pmberkeley is here
Geez The mans just having a laugh triggered much @pmberkeley You should research "satire" before getting defensive.
So I apply the beard oil... and then light it up for maximum beard blazing?
Gotta say the beard blaze, soothing antiblaze is great 👍 I have eczema resulting in sensitive skin and it give me no issues and feels and smells nice
There's also the survival of Tony Bullimore in the upturned hull of his yacht in the freezing Southern Ocean.
I can always support a sponser that the creator/narrater is clearly worthy of.
That was thoroughly enjoyable
Please look into Peter Bird(UK), the Father of modern ocean rowing , the first man to row solo across the pacific ( USA to Australia), the longest time at sea solo, the longest distance rowed solo by a human at the time , sadly lost at sea on an attempt to cross from Russia through the sea of japan to America . An absolute legend, father, friend and my uncle. In those days they just had an idea and dream of adventure , built a boat and went off into the blue; no satnav ,no internet , no weather updates, just the occasional radio contact. True Adventurers
when you dont have a beard but Simon sells you on a bottle with the mere term "glorious"
I was hoping for the guy that collapsed on the top part of Everest. Other climbers coming down thought he was dead and left him (not that anyone could have carried him down). The guy turned up in camp in the middle of the night. He'd gotten back up and did it under his own power. (Covered in the book, "Into Thin Air".)
I love how Business Blaze is starting to leak into Simon's other channels
Great video, please do a sequel 👍
Hi . Look at the Nayarit fishermans (México) 9 months adrift. Saling (surviving) in a small boat trough south pacific Solomon islands.
Imagine living in the jungle for 30 years fighting a war that over for nearly that whole time, then returning to your home to find things like anime, jpop, close political ties to the enemy country you were aposed to 30 years before and that it had been nuked twice by that same country.
My vote(s) would be for two stories that surpass anything in this video except the girl who fell in a piece of an exploded airplane and survived. It doesn't get much crazier than that. There's another story of a woman who survived a passenger jet explosion in Europe, including a fall of like 30000 feet in the tail section of a 747.
Anyway, for those with, shall we say, an appetite for the extreme, look no farther than the book _Alive_ by Piers Paul Read. It's the harrowing and, uh really gut-churning story about how some members of a Latin American soccer team survived a plane crash at extreme altitude in the Andes mountains (think desolate, like the North Pole, like Antarctica, like Mt Everest) by cannibalizing the bodies of those on the team who didn't survive the crash. Had to read it in college about thirty years ago and regretted it ever since. According to that book the least palatable parts of the human body are the brain and the genitals. Point taken. Ugh.
But my vote for number 1 unbelievable survival tale comes from a book I read as a teenager about bears. There was a story in it about an American Indian man who went to hunt a bear for food. He shot the bear once with a very powerful rifle. He approached the bear, which appeared to be dead, and put his rifle down before making absolutely sure of that. Well the bear wasn't quite dead, and when the Indian stuck his knife in the bear intending to gut and skin it, the bear came alive and swatted him once in the head. This bear was later weighed at over 300 pounds and that one blow stripped the flesh and skin off the man's face and torso such that his facial skin and musculature was hanging down his chest like a bib. He was also blind. The bear died shortly thereafter. This man, utterly blind and bleeding like crazy and probably also in an unbelievable amount of pain, crawled sightless on his hands and knees through the woods for like ten miles before someone finally found him and took him to the hospital. He survived, extremely disfigured and almost completely blind in one eye but vision in the other was preserved and he eventually went back to living the same sort of wilderness life he'd led before his injury.
That's what you call a serious will for survival.
12:45 how is anything going to get jettisoned with all the windows intact??? Hmm 🤔 💭
😂 gotcha
I literally just watched the first two stories from MrBallen, Trippy. Nice.
Omg love everything about you simon
Amazing stories
40 years in hiding and someone found him in four days 😂😂😂
Minor mistake but at 9:36 but you said the "war had been over since October" even though Hirohito announced surrender in August and it officially ended in September
Ayyy thanks Simon!
And Mr. Hiroo Onoda ended his days a revered hero in the extensive Japanese community in Brazil.
As an Aussie, despite him being a WW2 enemy, this bloke was awesome! He found it really hard to fit in to post-war Japan.
@@owenshebbeare2999 Yeah, talk about culture shock.
Regarding Callahan... Orca whales have been recorded attacking boats. Doesn't seem aggressive, just a game for them. Same area of the sea, it's just this pods pastime if you ask me
www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/buqvasp1rr/orcas-spain-portugal
I mean in hindsight, if it was the same pod, his survival was because of abandoning ship to a craft with less sonic signature. The orcas would have continued playing games ramming the ship as he floated away to survival.
Good video 👍
Simon can’t you put beard blaze on Amazon? Wanted to buy it but the shipping is so expensive to the uk.
I live just south of Portland and I have family in Lancaster...
I don’t have a beard but I did check out your website, pretty fresh website I like the layout and UI
You'd have to have tiny hands to make the bottle look big though Simon!
8:34 ah yes, that guy
Have you heard of José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman who was found on the Marshall Islands after spending 14 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean, he was blown off course by a storm that lasted five days in mexico and was found alive more than a year and 6,700 miles later
We should start calling you baby hands Simon
I don’t want to be that guy but koepcka’s story of growing up in South America as a child of German immigrants in the mid 20th century kinda raised some red flags as to why a German scientist moved to Peru in 1947 …
A suggestion for another video: The discovery of cosmic rays from space. Incidentally, I can't use your beard oils (I'm a girl).
The hell you can't. You can use it. Just not on a beard.
More of theeeeeaeeee
Can we get a reality TV show where Simon and Vladmir Putin team up to survive in the wilderness.
These are some side projects that I don't wish to participate in. This was great. Thank you!
As far as my feet will carry me is a good book.
Yeah, well one time my internet went out for 4 hours.
I get the ad plug, but my 1 item, and I'm a combat veteran, is a sturdy knife. None of that folding stuff. Yes, I have one like that, but a full tang knife... If you know how to use it, you will survive.
An advert i pledge to never skip.
Ever thought of doing a Side Project of the italian factory with a racetrack on the roof?
Hi Simon can you do a mega projects on China turning reefs and small islands into large islands in the South China sea? Big fan!
Oh, congratz on Beard Blaze!
This brings back memories of Sam o’ Nella
I miss him too
"On the other end of the spectrum you've got guys like Phineas Gage". Absolutely love Sam.
Harrison Okene.
You never know what you can survive until you have to 👍🏻
My beard smells like rotten 🐢
An "Electra" knocked out of the sky by lightning......irony, anyone?
What’s the one thing you need to survive in the wild?
Rotting Turtle of course
The drinking urine thing somehow was fairly common between dehydrated soldiers during the Greeco Turkish War..
Very good!
Wouldn't giant hands make the bottle seem smaller though?
I think you got that backwards Simon. Lol
if i was stuck out in a hostile land i would like to bring Ray Mears!....
I read a book about Steven CAllahan a few years ago - cant remember if it was written by him or an autobiography - his story of survival was crazy. Im 99.9% sure I would not have made it
Adrift. We read it in school.
@@pmberkeley That was it, thanks! I Read it while I was in the hospital recovering from an illness, it was a great distraction even though I read it in a day
I figured she had brain injuries when you mentioned she broke out the driver's side window. Since in the pictures of the jeep, the roof had been ripped almost off and it would have been easier to climb out the top.
More survival stories, please.
The guy the movie 127 hours is based on should receive a mention! Crazy story that one is.
Lol Simon Thinks he has normal sized hands. While the beard blaze bottle is huge, Them hands be dainty 😘
I can't believe Aron Ralston is not on this list Simon...part 2 lol