Good run down and for adding some creative thinking! Great rescue items in there. Staying alive to get rescued within 72 hours is the job. Hopefully your family would make it to the Life Raft which also has essentials, then get to safety. If separated from it, then your Ditch Bag will have to be more robust. I think emergency repair items could be an extensive talk so I'll mostly stick to just surviving. 1.From a practical approach, does it float? If not, I would use a couple of Heavy Duty Garbage bags with Zip ties as a Liner inside and it adds Buoyancy. Maybe a proper Drybag could be used in the future. 2.As a minimum, Maintain body temperature by adding some old fashioned Wool Watch Caps in safety orange. Trauma of ditching and exposure to water leads to dropping body temperature and shock. Wool glove inserts would also help. 3.Consider adding: Multi-tool/Knife, Fire starter/Bic, Tarp with a Reflective side. 4.Rehearsed? Glad you're setting the right example!
Make sure you have a tourniquet in your first aid kit and get rid of the big can opener and replace it with a military P38. Also a couple of glow sticks
The rope can be used as a tourniquet in a pinch. I’ll look into the P38. Kids have glow sticks that i can steal and add to the bag. Great suggestions. Thanks for sharing.
@@lmannyr1 agree P38 is perfect for compact packing for outdoor adventures, however, in the water with wet hands, it is so tiny, will drop it in a heartbeat ... for this application, I believe the big yellow is appropriate.
@@lmannyr1 Yo! Dont just add glow sticks, tie strings onto the glowsticks! They are used to spin around over your head at night making a visible display to get seen!
A ditch bag is the bag you grab as you are abandoning ship. If you’re ditch bag is to heavy it will sink to the bottom. There was nothing in that ditch bag to save you only a radio. No EPIRB, no PLB, no signaling device, no dry box for a phone to call for help. He needed a separate box for all that boat junk. He needed water packets not water bottle. Throw that water bottle over the side and watch it sink. With EPIRB he would be rescued within hours.
Friend, you need to do a better job on battery storage. DO NOT store batteries in the radio emergency backup; they will leak and ruin the accessory. DO NOT use alkaline batteries. Pay the tab and get Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries; they're good for about 10 years and do not leak. To store them there are various plastic holders online, which then can be kept in plastic bags. Another cheap way to safely store one-at-a-time AAs, or a couple AAAs, or two CR123s, separated, is in the $1 entirely waterproof matchbox cases. Your instincts and actions are correct, just fix the batteries issue. Best.
I wonder why people on youtube repeatedly smack stuff that they hold up in front of the camera? Ditch bags are interesting and handy, but what and where is your life-craft? Many thanks.
No life raft on this boat. I boat in South East Florida, USA. Its a busy area. The ditch bag is simply something that will help me out during an emergency and until someone can reach me. In this area, being how busy it is with boaters of all sizes, types, and interests, I feel confident in just a ditch bag. Worse case scenario, boat sinks, epirb should have already be on before I hit the water. I'm sure FWC, Local police, local boaters, Coast Guard and more would be headed our way in short order.
Great bag, I am taking away some of your suggestions for sure! One thing I might add is one of those thin thermal emergency blankets (the silver sheet) ... put a big reflective tape X on each side - it can be used as both a sun shade for the group and a large reflective visual aid for search and rescue at the same time (day or night). Takes minimal room and adds no weight.
Finally someone who includes water in their hit! Freakin good on ya bud!
We are made up of mostly water. The sun and sea will suck that water out. Need a way to replenish. Drinking saltwater will kill you.
loved the video, safety first
Always!
Really great content here … I would dump the can opener and put in one more water and get easy open cans
Good tip!
Good video also its good have strove lights and matches o lighter
Good tip.
Good run down and for adding some creative thinking! Great rescue items in there. Staying alive to get rescued within 72 hours is the job. Hopefully your family would make it to the Life Raft which also has essentials, then get to safety. If separated from it, then your Ditch Bag will have to be more robust. I think emergency repair items could be an extensive talk so I'll mostly stick to just surviving.
1.From a practical approach, does it float? If not, I would use a couple of Heavy Duty Garbage bags with Zip ties as a Liner inside and it adds Buoyancy. Maybe a proper Drybag could be used in the future.
2.As a minimum, Maintain body temperature by adding some old fashioned Wool Watch Caps in safety orange. Trauma of ditching and exposure to water leads to dropping body temperature and shock. Wool glove inserts would also help.
3.Consider adding: Multi-tool/Knife, Fire starter/Bic, Tarp with a Reflective side.
4.Rehearsed?
Glad you're setting the right example!
Thanks. We hope to never use it.
Make sure you have a tourniquet in your first aid kit and get rid of the big can opener and replace it with a military P38. Also a couple of glow sticks
The rope can be used as a tourniquet in a pinch. I’ll look into the P38. Kids have glow sticks that i can steal and add to the bag.
Great suggestions. Thanks for sharing.
@@lmannyr1 agree P38 is perfect for compact packing for outdoor adventures, however, in the water with wet hands, it is so tiny, will drop it in a heartbeat ... for this application, I believe the big yellow is appropriate.
@@lmannyr1 Yo! Dont just add glow sticks, tie strings onto the glowsticks! They are used to spin around over your head at night making a visible display to get seen!
Good idea. Thank you.
Where do you buy the bags and the other things?
Everything can be purchased locally or online.
A ditch bag is the bag you grab as you are abandoning ship. If you’re ditch bag is to heavy it will sink to the bottom. There was nothing in that ditch bag to save you only a radio. No EPIRB, no PLB, no signaling device, no dry box for a phone to call for help. He needed a separate box for all that boat junk. He needed water packets not water bottle. Throw that water bottle over the side and watch it sink. With EPIRB he would be rescued within hours.
Yup.. There is an EPIRB as well. Good tips. Thanks!
Friend, you need to do a better job on battery storage. DO NOT store batteries in the radio emergency backup; they will leak and ruin the accessory. DO NOT use alkaline batteries.
Pay the tab and get Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries; they're good for about 10 years
and do not leak. To store them there are various plastic holders online, which then can be kept
in plastic bags. Another cheap way to safely store one-at-a-time AAs, or a couple AAAs,
or two CR123s, separated, is in the $1 entirely waterproof matchbox cases.
Your instincts and actions are correct, just fix the batteries issue. Best.
Great tips thank you.
This is not a ditch bag but an in case your boat stops running in which case use the boat radio instead of handheld. Better range.
Hand held is a back up for many purposes. If boat sinks too fast to get a radio call out, handheld is in the ditch bag as well.
I have a brother who went fishing it been 5 days it ain't come home yet
Sorry to hear that.
And that's from West Africa Senegal
Awesome
Rather than can foods like a tuna cans. They have tinfoil sealed tuna foods .
Thanks for the tip.
I wonder why people on youtube repeatedly smack stuff that they hold up in front of the camera? Ditch bags are interesting and handy, but what and where is your life-craft? Many thanks.
No life raft on this boat. I boat in South East Florida, USA. Its a busy area. The ditch bag is simply something that will help me out during an emergency and until someone can reach me. In this area, being how busy it is with boaters of all sizes, types, and interests, I feel confident in just a ditch bag. Worse case scenario, boat sinks, epirb should have already be on before I hit the water. I'm sure FWC, Local police, local boaters, Coast Guard and more would be headed our way in short order.
Great bag, I am taking away some of your suggestions for sure! One thing I might add is one of those thin thermal emergency blankets (the silver sheet) ... put a big reflective tape X on each side - it can be used as both a sun shade for the group and a large reflective visual aid for search and rescue at the same time (day or night). Takes minimal room and adds no weight.
Good tip.