Dehydration - Ray Mears Extreme Survival - BBC

[MooseHunter911]

@chowmeinchowdown it was a few years back during a semester, caught a feaver and drank to little water. Endes up in a hospitalbed before i could collapse.. Had problems walking for a few days and was weak for half a month afterwards. Drinking water is underestimated

[MooseHunter911]

I have been dehydrated. it's not fun at all. then I ended up in a hospital in Cyprus.

[ChowMeinChowdown]

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

[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...

[VerbosityFail]

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

[rabit1233]

this guy is moronic and i doubt he know what to do if he actualy had to survive

[Repenter101]

@rabit1233 They see me trollin', they hatin'...

[TheseSummerDays]

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

[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..

[XColumbX]

drink your rine.....it's 95% h2o :)

[meandkg]

this nissan advert is so childish

[TheCondemnedProphet]

I have some queer vacation resort advert lol.

[qbthething]

dont be stupid...u can drink salt water if your not thirty, but if ur thirsty it will kill you instantly...

[kgmachine]

not true salt water will increase dehydration dramatically as well as vomiting

[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.

[thrashmantim]

what about the amish? they don't count as humans?

[abigor315]

yes so bad humans are relying on things we accomplished thanks to our huge brains... oh how stupid we are..

[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

[staphinfection]

@MultiZephyr You can blame all of that on CAPITALISM.

[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.

[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..

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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.

[DeadlyVeggie]

quick and easy fix for our economy: demolish our cities and live off the land.

we did it for thousands of years, didn't do us any harm... quite the opposite in fact.

[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?

[oblivion292]

A little too late for that... Can't fish for anything in our polluted waters and where Im from (New York) our land is so infertile. Modern life isn't that bad though.. its only downside is that it turned us all lazy. Just remember back thousands of years ago it was a miracle for a person to live to be 30 and it was easier for entire civilzations to go extinct ie the ancient egyptians, romans, greeks, Incas myans etc.

[wallonthefly]

@oblivion292

Id say its easier for a civilisation to go extinct where there is so much specialisation, 90% dont know how to grow food.

Especially with the questionable morality of modern man...

[TheZefMan]

That would just remove any form of economy. You're stupid.

[pilgor87]

I went walkin in the sun tday with my stepdad, And half way through i felt horrible. Still feel a lil dizzy and weak but ive been drinking alot of water and it seems to help. DRINK WATER itll only take a second

[lennoxlude]

why would you have any equipement. if your boat sunk, then i'm sure you will have nothing. fighting for survival is that, fighting with nothing, creating your own inventions to use, not a massive advantage piece of equipement like that. it was a massive advantage. i bet anyone stranded on a boat would of loved having one of them, but they never had that luxury.

[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.

[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!

[lennoxlude]

it's a fight for survival, you got to think of having nothing when you fight for survival so he should show how to make one from scratch.

like i said i bet everyone who has been stranded wish they had the chance to have such gear on them becaue the chances are you would forget to take it after all the panicking.

soon he'll be in the jungle with burgers and chips with his cooking gear showing people how to survive in a deserted island. you have nothing, that's what you got to think.

[TJH1974]

Yea, good idea! Let me just pull a reverse osmosis pump outa me ass..

[lennoxlude]

it's good advice he's telling us, but when you're fighting for survival, then basically uo have nothing, when i watch these clips, he's always got tools or something to help, i mean if your boat crashed it's going to be unlikely you will have the equipement he's using to make drinkable water from the sea.

[unsavourycharacter]

Watch Bear gay boy grylls then.

[lennoxlude]

you're such an unsavoury character.

[pokerstarboxer]

ray sucks,yeh ill remember to take 1 of those with me the next time i plan on geting totaly lost sumwer in the desert or at sea cheers .

[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..).

[krisUSA11]

cooooool :)

[maltijien]

Cool. I didnt know about the solar still.

Thanks

[phmilkshake]

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

[Fireballofdolera]

to expensive prolly to get on ur pleasure boat.

so pritty useless

[xgouldingx]

learn to spell

[DocGreen15]

My god! Who fucking cares you sad cunt!

[SkankinPaul]

no comments?! well 1...

[tommyknight90]

this is mint and very helpful!!!