So I am currently watching 7 vs. Wild Season 3 a german youtube survival show. This season 7 pairs have to survive 14 days on nigel and hope island north of vancouver island. The only gear they were allowed was anything they could fit into a 1 liter bottle + clothing and sleeping bags and some filming equipment. The contestants aren't allowed to move much. Anyway after 3 days the founder and his buddy aborted their stay because they couldn't find non salt water. What would you have done in this situation:
> The river close by was flooded and up to one kilometer inland (as much as they were allowed to go) the water still was salty
> The moss they came across barely contained any water
> The only non salt water was a small body of swamp water (will post picture later)
> Nothing they could use to distil water (will post loadout and translation)
> The rain was salty from the spray of the ocean
I'll be glad to answer more questions about the situation. If you understand german here is the youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@7_vs._wild
The swapwater they came across. Fritz's (the guy in the picture) reported that his stomach didn't particularly like the water.
Looks like a high water table. Maybe they should try to dig down to some ground water.
Their shelter. The rain that was collected contained salt as they had to built their shelter close to the ocean
>split up plastic
>wrap around live trees
>they respire water at night
>barely scrape by
It's bullshit but it's one people miss and they have the plastic.
verpiss dich und shill deine kacksendung wo anders
Season 3 is the worst by far, wouldn't shill it but its fun to discuss this.
Loadout translation:
> Water filter
> Knive
> Wire
> Painters Tarp
> Firesteel
> grindstones
> Mosquito net
> Saw
> 2x Saw vlades
> Slingshot
> Fishing hook
> lead
> various baits
> Gillnets
> Soap
> Tweezers
> Painkillers
> Fishing string
> Diarrhea pills
Easy mode
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>Easy mode
Yeah they really had a good setup going. So sad they had to finish so early.
>Won't work if it's overcast, and setting up a transpiration bag on a tree branch uses less energy than digging a hole.
Wouldn't that just capture salty spray from the ocean? Their spot was either river, beach or thick forest.
>If he has a bottle he can make a basic filtration system from sand and rocks.
They had a filter but it wasn't able to filter out the salt from the water. The sand and rock filter wouldn't get rid of the salt as well right?
> The fact that they weren't allowed to go further inland is just stupid
Yeah, they weren't even allowed to go far on the beach because just around the corner is some infrastructure
>distillation
They said they knew how but don't have the tools and don't see it as a feasable solution for 11 more days. What would have you done whit the tools they brought?
Idk man I only PrepHole where I can drink fresh water from a mountain stream.
They are germ hogs, they could have followed their ancient tradition and drank each other's urine from the source, that way it would have warmed them too. A word of warning: germs have evolved to tolerate the small amount of refuse in such substance, such behaviour will kill or permanently damage any normal human.
They also have a technique for when they run out of food but that's a story from another time.
I don't believe the water excuse, the other guys back problems was the real reason they quit.
You need a tarp or plastic sheet. Dig or find a hole. Put a container at the bottom. Cover with sheet. Put a weight in the middle turning it into a cone. Optionally fill the sheet with wet sand if it's impermeable and can take the weight.
Water will condense on the sheet when it's cooler than ambient.
Won't work if it's overcast, and setting up a transpiration bag on a tree branch uses less energy than digging a hole.
That area is a temperate rain forest and gets 140 CM of rainfall a year. It also has dew almost every month of the year.
If he has a bottle he can make a basic filtration system from sand and rocks.
The fact that they weren't allowed to go further inland is just stupid and makes this lame and bullshit because finding water in a survival situation means going as far as you have to go to find water before finding out something more sustainable.
distillation
This show is maximum cringe inducing.
i have to agree, the idea and set up is good but the people they invited are mostly horrible.
I personally think it adds to the fun seeing newbies trying to survive but they might aswell just be viewers instead of some streamers.
Yeah, they were told that hey have access to water, I think that played into some of the more unfortunate decisions.
whoever packed that loadout isn't the brightest cookie. the bloke who couldn't stomach filtered water isn't going to do so well in any survival situation. not being able to use fire, plastic bottles, tarp and wire to distill water?
grim
you can Black person rig a distillation apparatus from a pit, any piece of plastic foil and any object that holds liquid.
put dirt water in pit, make condenser with foil, super heat water by immersing heated stones.
or they could have milked some trees for the sap and run that through the filter, plants are natural water purifier
> or they could have milked some trees for the sap and run that through the filter, plants are natural water purifier
For the salt or the swap water?
>just pump that saltwater right up your ass, you'll take it in and be fine. Isn't that what some family lost at sea did?
lmao really? Can someone confirm this?
Yes, saltwater enema (if you can hold it in) will absorb fresh water through the intestine like osmosis.
> i was wrong and I'm sorry?.
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/would-sea-water-enema-help-hydration
just pump that saltwater right up your ass, you'll take it in and be fine. Isn't that what some family lost at sea did?
>germs
>"Interest" in enemas
Pottery.
Just boil it under a big leaf and collect the steam into a separate container? It will be pure 100% h2o
Filter the water...
Step one: make activated charcoal
Step two: layer rocks/pebbles/sand/charcoal in that order in a container, ideally a big one that can hold lots of material/water like a barrel
Step 3: Poke holes in bottom of barrel and fill with whatever salt water you want and be amazed as pure clean water filters through to the bottom
Activated charcoal doesn't remove salt from water moron. and even if it did, you'd need to replace the charcoal regularly as it got 'clogged' with salt and lost its filtering capacity. and you need sulfuric acid to make actual activated charcoal. moron.
I love my zero percent efficiency distillation system
Just drink it. The water was fine to drink. Even better than pure fresh water in their situation as it would have given them valuable salt.
Joe Vogel, a German biologist and survival instructor has made a video about this. Humans can drink water with up to 9% salt content. That tastes very salty but is exactly the salt concentration the body operates at.
Felix, the guy with the cap, was barely able to taste any salt, which means their water was perfectly fine to drink.
Oh and also salt water is heavier than fresh water and so the upper part of a body of mixed water is less salty.
Supposedly you can safely drink small amounts, a "hand full", of sea water every ~20min.
Rainwater with some sea spray is obviously not going to be a problem .
wrong
its rather 0.9%, actually
--> Saline_(medicine)
How long do you last if you usually operate on 10.000 kcal a day to nothing because you don't eat sea weed?
i've done a 7 day water fast before, went about my day as usual but i stopped going to the gym on day 3.
>only salt water
>The river close by was flooded and up to one kilometer inland (as much as they were allowed to go)
in a survival situation, you would walk to fresh water. it's what determines where you make camp in the first place
there are various techniques for purifying water, yes, but it's not a long term solution. the artificial limitations are moronic
fake
cringe
Stop watching TV
Mach den Fernseh aus du Loser und geh raus bevor du den Sinn fuer die Realitaet verlierst..
>discount language
This is an English board. Keep germ to krapchan and smelly dumps alike.