Dehydration - Ray Mears Extreme Survival - BBC

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Tq for the video. I use this video for my online class Form 1 DEDIKASI of #SMKKota #Malaysia. Question 6 Topic 5 KSSM Textbook Science

[@phmilkshake]

any homemade condensers will do. nice tip on the reverse osmosis pump.

[@reforest4fertility]

I'll just remind or inform people with that forests are our source of, and maintain our stores of, fresh water. Yes, we're experiencing more rapid desertification of our lands than we realize, just as most of us are oblivious to the rate we're dehydrating as we careen thru life. We tend to take water 4 granted, tho our need for it ranks a close 2nd to our need for air. Since we can fast from food, & it has a healing effect, tho it ranks a distant 3rd in our skewed hierarchy of needs.

[@matszz]

You can actually drink sea water, a french scientist did an experiment with it. The body can absord an ammount of salt per day. Its not alot, but you can drink 2 dl of sea water per day safely. Look up that exact ammount if you're planning to do it cause im not 100% sure on how much you can drink.

[@maltijien]

Cool. I didnt know about the solar still. Thanks

[@Bucky640]

@MultiZephyr you're paranoid, bro. And I'm 17 and I love this stuff, I'm an outdoorsman, and several of my friends do the same. Don't think the young are so apathetic.

[@anyjaszemit]

Actually, a condenser is relatively easy to make (or so I've read..). I would assume next time you get totally lost in the desert you would still have something with you (unless you just wanted to take a random walk), such as some fabric you could hold down with stones at the edges and prop up with a stick in the middle (or a tent for that matter..).

[@MultiZephyr]

Some ppl are naive to think that theyre gonna be old when it comes time to need these skills so they dont care. Thats what is going to force us into a state of survival which we're already in if you think about it, just as we're already in a state of WWIII except that it isnt human vs human, its human vs human vs nature. We're quickly running out of resourses and nature is fighting back by changing all of its patterns and we are fighting each other for what is left.

[@rainmechanic]

Many people watching this are missing the most important survival tip he presented... and that is "Survival starts before you ever leave home".. If you can afford a boat you can afford a solar still .. It should be thrown in a roll top waterproof bag with some bottled water, sunblock, a hat,signal mirror,whistle, and a PFD... Something bad happens at sea, just grab the bag and and you now possess the TOOLS to survive..Otherwise you wont survive for long floating in the open ocean unprepared..

[@DocGreen15]

Thing is though, you only hear about the one's stranded because they are the one's who didn't have these types of things and were ill prepared! Obviously you could create something similar to that bag divide, all it is, is evaporation? If you don't plan, it's not Rays fault he didn't show you how to magic water without using any tools at all, in the middle of the ocean!

[@reforest4fertility]

I was only saying how & that we take water for granted, not to mention air. If we take care of ourselves then we keep a strong immune system & don't leave ourselves susceptible. Then re the recession, we people need to work together starting an along-the-ground economy, rise up in participation building the economy from the bottom up, implementing sustainable alternatives, so then not just yielding to their imposing their usual top-down disasters-waiting-to-happen.

[@reforest4fertility]

Yes, when something has as clearly failed as practically all we see, then scrap & start over. How much more convincing should be needed? But for the intransigence from those relatively few for whom this clear failure serves. Many people are starting subsistence "victory gardens". More farmer's markets are sprouting. So the people are starting 2 change positively as we can see more negative change take hold too. But how do we form positive critical mass, or shall we just count the ways?

[@geppegep]

@MultiZephyr what is really important then? i sure dont know, and computers and cars help ppl make money so they can get all the things they need to survive without needing to really find them or make them

[@VerbosityFail]

@ben1996 They aren't showing how to distill water without anything because it is close to impossible.

[@ChowMeinChowdown]

@MooseHunter911 How did that happen and how long did you last before collapsing?

[@Photobyke]

Yeah, but he outlined the problems about drinking seawater and the survival situations connected with being stranded at sea and then drew our attention to the fact that there are these things available. If your boat sinks and you are in a raft, then you should have one in your raft, right? It's not like you can't afford one if you own a yacht.

[@Norwification]

@MultiZephyr haha bit of a 2012 idea there... the current situation is nowhere as bad as you've described man, even the thing we rely on the most (oil) is plentiful and has several reserves. no doubt it will run out, but we'll have other sources of energy. the population will decrease as 3rd world countries have less children per family, not as a result of a catastrophic WWIII over resources..

[@ben1996]

I wish they would show a way to purify and distill any water if you are left with nothing at all. It's so dumb because none of this shit helps...

[@staphinfection]

@MultiZephyr You can blame all of that on CAPITALISM.

[@TheseSummerDays]

I'd love to see Ray's REAL survival techniques if BBC stops paying him....

[@MultiZephyr]

Continued.... Humans are in lazy mode relying on computers, cars and other things we really dont need and we're forgetting about what is really important. Just remember that w/o a planet we cant live. The least of our worries are recession and swine flu.These are other cases of human error that could have been avoided.

[@NiTheGod]

says the guy using a computer

[@meandkg]

this nissan advert is so childish

[@davylove21]

yeeeeeeeeeeeah but I'll be too old to care when that kicks off, the biggies right now are swine flu and recession, get in line!