1st comment. It is not about the ancestor similaritity. It is about of what you can give for your country.

Sheck did not have a resistance to decompression sickness, (6:27) he simply planned his decompression stops well and followed his plan.

Bunch of idiots. Fuck around and find out.

Wow, that was great, thanks!

When my father was a small boy (he's 82 now) he knew "uncle" Tom Dawson a survivor.

An incredible story 😲😲😲 Human endurance against hopeless odds 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

If I had the survival skills, living on an island with a bunch of cats would be ideal for me,

I wouldn't wanna go back. I would have stayed with the cats talking to Wilson.

At 10:01 what's with th40 foot boat to the left of screen. Bullshit story

What is with all the prolific word use 😂. Very strange and over the top

R I P my brothers

Terrible times!

ben gunn

No internet-Politics or Trump=Bliss.

Yes heard of him ....seems robinson crusoe came from this ...😊

I think you need a maritime historian. William Dampier recovered Selkirk. Selkirk had been abandoned by the crew because of Selkirk violence. Selkirk was the second man William Dampier had gone back for. Dampier is has over 200,000 words in the dictionary that he gets credit for (Words that say Damp next to them are from William Dampier). Dampier circumnavigated the globe at least 6 times. Selkirk was the model for the book Robinson Crusoe.

Great story ❤

This man Alexander survived his personal trials and thrived 'on other's' as did The Spanish who conquered essentially ALL of Latin America. As people like Alexander were just then starting to do to All of India and what they could Take from China and Africa. Yess its all worth remembering but No One has the right to- sail into other's lands and take whatever they want through bloodshed, lying and cheating as The Brit's were world renown for!!!!

Can we get a "tempestuous" count😂

I am an old bastard, so when i was in the cub scouts and boyscouts we were taught survival and nature skills. No one heard of such obscure concepts of cultural Sensitivity and transgender recognition.

How dare they take the horrible holocaust of a whole group of black people and say that this white man experienced it, after white men did it to those black people that actually lived it. Just desperate.

This is a hagiography of Alexander Selkirk. Though a great tale of survival, in reality Selkirk was a terrible human. He beat up family members (including mom & dad), was a drunken brawler, & committed bigamy. Author Daniel Defoe fictionalized much of Selkirk's experiences.

Must have been horrible.. no nagging.. no bills..no whining

Pimento trees do not grow where it snows ! Do your research before you try and pass off a story as non fiction.

Pimento trees are tropical.

i would pay to have a ship bringing me in a stranded island. i wouldn`t be stranded i would have peace from this crazy world,

The island of San Fernsndes. Off the coast of Chile?

Robinson Crusoe

10:36 Why is there a portrait in the middle of the forest?

Not all pictures fit the timeframe.

Someone's who has made a history video. Needs to do research, one minute england is at war with the Spanish , but the British Navy is the one doing the fighting. Alexander Selkirk is a Scotsman from Fife

Absolute stupidity. No single person can be "at the helm" of two vessels simultaneously. One person might be in command, but definitely not "at the helm." Fuck me dead.

Hearding cats ...😂😂😂

An introvert would have no problem mentally. In fact, he/she would be in their element. An exrovert, being needy and annoying, would go mad.

Nobody teaches a cat to dance

Thank you for uploading this incredible story.

Alone does not mean lonely.

Not in 1704!!!

What’s with using the Captains first names? We don’t call Captain Cook Captain James. It makes the narrative sound childish.

I can’t help but remember the first man created by God in His own image and likeness in the Garden of Eden so happy content so peaceful and enjoyed nature and with solitude amongst the cats and other animals until God created Eve to be his companion and all became tupsy turvy since then k!

Nice story ! The message of this movie is never to give up hope ! you you must struggle for life because there always could becomme better times in youre life ! 😉

Those interested in this story will be interested in the story of Tom Neale in the book “An island to oneself” True story of his time on Suwarrow island

Fascinating man and remarkable life. Poorly written (sorry, but it was) and mechanically read...by a computer.

This shd b made into a movie..

The only thing a guy needs on a desert island is ginger mary ann.............!

Robinson Crusoe Island 33 south latitude rough climate equivalent of the Carolinas 33 north Lat is approx state lines between the two. Winters easily survivable. he lucked out, goats cats sea lions.

These wer named privateers, but in fact, they were pirates and when caught by the Spanish Crown, they were hung on the gallows and watch them dancing while dangling from it.

Daniel Defoe met with Alexander Selkirk in the Llandoger Trow, a pub in King Street, Wesh Back, Bristol . Selkirk told him the story of his marooning and it gave Defoe the ideas for 'Robinson Crusoe''. The pub is still there in spite of it being smaller than it used to be, courtesy of the Luftwaffer in WW2. The flat-bottomed sailng barge which plied the Severn Bristol, Gloucester and the Wye Valley was called a Trow. The Wye is tidal for about ten mlies inland to the village of Llandogo. The trows would sail down the Wye with cargo (timber) across the Severn Estuary and up the River Avon to the Wesh Back dock in Bristol and rest-up in the pub,hence the 'Llandoger Trow' name.

Pacific island with snow storms? You've got to be kidding. I have lived in PNG, Vanuatu, Solomons and have never struck a snow storm.

Watching this video just cant imagine the days of pain he went through and a confident thought flow taking him back to the civilization. Greatest video ever i have gone through. The resilience making him just superb. Thanks for bring up such an historical importance video.