LOST AT SEA! Need Fire, Water, Food & Shelter! (Real Life Survival Challenge)

Now I'll explain to you in a moment how the hell we ended up out here drifting around in the middle of the Indian Ocean between Australia and Indonesia. But for now I've got to see if I can catch some food. Would you take your chances? That's all we want. That's how we're going to hopefully turn saltwater into freshwater. Oh you are joking. No way. Over the next few days I'm recreating this lost at sea survival challenge. This was without a doubt the worst experience of my life. It was about 2am we were on board a larger boat that was towing my smaller boat the Salty Dingo back from a big trip at sea. At this point in time we're about 100 miles off the coast of and a big storm hit us. The weather turned so rough that my boat that was being towed broke its tow point and then drifted off into the ocean. I had a decision to make whether we left the boat there that night or whether to jump overboard and get back on the boat and then do my best to drive it back to mainland Australia. In the heat of the moment I couldn't say goodbye to my beloved Salty Dingo. So I jumped overboard into the ocean and basically then started the the worst experience of my life. Once I'd made it to the boat over the next 12 hours was the the longest 12 hours of my life. I had a lot of time to think what would I do if the Salty Dingo sunk. It was every chance it was going to sink. If that bilge pump stopped for you know a matter of minutes the whole boat would have sunk. Or whether the already broken and damaged hull was broken apart further causing the boat to sink. I had a lot of time to think. That's why this is hoping to replicate like a piece of that fiberglass boat. What was going through my mind is I would have just had to grab something that floated and hang on for dear life. Also would have been going for one of the the many hand lines I had on board and that's what I've got at the moment. Just sort of trying my best to see if I can get lucky and catch something here for a bit of food. So that's what the survival challenge is all about today guys. What if, like what would have happened if the Salty Dingo went down that day and were adrift at sea. That's what we're doing. One thing's for certain my time on board a little raft like this would be very limited. So I'm going to need to get ashore. I'm going to need food. I'm going to need water and I'm going to need shelter. How exactly we go about all those things I'm not sure yet. But after a while floating here the fish actually become attracted to a floating object like this. It becomes almost a fish aggregation device. There's a few smaller fish swimming around underneath me that look like rainbow runner. This is probably my best chance. I've just got a bite. I've just got a bite. Holy moly. This is I think bigger than what we had in mind. This is something big here it's told me. What is it? Oh holy moly. Holy this is this is big. Oh no my hand line. This thing's big. Perhaps too big. It's tolling the raft around. Holy smokes. This could either have me eaten for a week and in heartbreak. Come on. Come on. Come on. What is it? What is it? What is it? Oh no. Oh no. This is a big shark. Oh no. That's not what I wanted. Oh no wonder it was so fast. That was a shark and that was my one hook. Oh bugger. Oh he's just here. Holy. He's just here. Well there goes our chance of catching something with a hand line. Oh bugger. There's definitely a few sharks down there now. Oh there's a couple of them here. I'm gonna try keep my limbs on board this at all times. Oh that's a bigger shark. That one. I'll have to keep an eye on him. Oh now I'm feeling and looking a lot like a turtle. Wasn't expecting that one. As we get closer to the isle this swell turns into a wave. Crashing on the reef. Uh oh. Oh no. A knife into my private spots as well. 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Basically in these conditions I reckon I've got maybe two days without water and two weeks without food until I perish so I need to be proactive. Basically the goal needs to be not just to survive but to aim to thrive out here. So we're going to go for a walk see if there's anything that can help us with water or food. This entire bank here has been eroded away in that big storm. See sort of like a meter of erosion but what that does mean this whole bank is now food. It's going to be tough to get into but these coconut trees we can actually eat them later on. But first priority has got to be water. To be honest I don't really know what I'm going to try do yet but I'm just going to try and find as much useful waste that's washed in and then we'll see what we can come up with. This is a Cinderella story after all. Solard didn't know they made green cans. Here is a little gold mine. Any of these back eddies like this where the tide comes in and washes all the plastic back for it to get trapped is a good spot to look. Would you take your chances? I don't think so. I'll give it a snip. So I'm at the very top of the windward side of the island. This is where everything washes in. You can see behind me here. I've found lots of bottles. I'm just trying to find anything else that could be useful. I'd love to find something I could use to boil water. Something I could put on top of a fire. That is a good sign. Means there's crayfish off here which are obviously a great source of food. I've got to get my shirt on. It's getting seriously hot out there and if I do make it through the survival challenge I definitely don't want to be dying of skin cancer so let's cover up. I've collected a heap of these plastic bottles and plastic and the hope is that I can turn these into a couple of different contraptions that can provide me drinking water. Out here I'm obviously surrounded by salt water. You can't drink that. In order to try and turn the salt water into fresh water we can drink we need to set up something that's called desalination. The first thing I'm going to do is set up a solar still with one of these plastic bags and actually quite ironically it was one of these plastic bags which was my biggest threat while I was in the Salty Dingo that night and driving home. So we'd used a bag just like this to collect a lot of little plastic before we left the sand cave but then on the trip home when I was in the boat all this plastic had broken through the with it being so rough waves are crashing over the side it meant the bilge pump was on the entire time the bilge pump pumps the water from inside the boat out so that was keeping me afloat but any little piece of plastic that went in and potentially clogged up the pump the boat would have sunk in a matter of minutes so I was kind of cursing this plastic bag full of rubbish the whole entire trip home but now let's use it to see if it can provide us with a bit of drinking water. All right first step we're going to dig a big hole I've come down here to where the sand is damp because we actually want to use the moisture in the sand and the tide is dropping now which means it's basically a perfect time to do this do this right here probably have about 10 hours of that tide being out before it eventually comes back into this point perfect see I've got down to water now that's all we want this is still salt water so we can't drink this but that's the moisture we want all right you want to do this through the hottest part of the day in broad sunlight and out of the wind if you can if you're by the ocean side or a water source you want to get down to some moisture down there if you're in the desert or something like that you can actually use green leaves and this solar steel will suck the fresh water out of the leaves we'll do a bit of both all right I think we're good to go let's get some leaves this looks like full of moisture these ones all right so this is what my drinking water will collect in I'll give it a bit of a wash out made the hole a little bit big here I just need to close it in a bit all right finishing touches I've just topped it up with a bit of salt water so we got as much moisture in there as we can get and now we'll close him up and let this sun do its work oh actually no there's one final very important thing and the final touch this coconut basically x marks the spot and that is creating the lowest point so what we're doing all that moisture through the leaves and the salt water is evaporating hitting this plastic and then as it condenses it's then going to run down to this coconut and collect for our drinking water let's see how it goes you can see already there's moisture on the underside which I'm hoping is the fresh water we're going to eventually drink all right so I want to set up a couple of these different water traps that are working for us through the heat of the day while we then can go and start looking for food this one I've never done it before but the theory is the same as the solar still we got one big plastic bottle one small plastic bottle let's see how we go first step chop the base off your bigger bottle all right step number two we're going to fold this lip up on itself step number three chop the top off the smaller bottle so this is what we're left with this smaller one's going to be we're going to fill with salt water place it in here full of salt water that salt water is going to be heated by by the sun evaporate up hit the lid of this where it's then going to condense cool down and fresh water is going to drip down the outside and be caught in that lip that's how we're going to hopefully turn salt water into fresh water let's see how we go perfect sits nice and snug around it put this in the sun here all right now with this one I imagine a glass or a can would be better I reckon it'd store the heat more and evaporate quicker but I just couldn't find one that would fit perfectly and didn't have holes in it so we'll see how we go with plastic on plastic all right while our water makers are doing their best here in the sun let's go for a walk and see if we can find any food of course while I was driving that boat I was wearing my mask as the the waves are crashing over the boat uh the salt spray my eyes was just like agonizing so I had a mask on all through the night so now when it comes to the survival challenge the mask is really actually going to come in handy because it's going to allow me to have a bit of a swim offshore uh where there's potentially food source for us as that tide's dropping out now leave some of these rock pools exposed it's a great spot to look for something to eat let's see how we go there's little snails like this which I can eat isn't this crazy that this was once a turban shell a snail and then it's now fossilized into the rock actually there's lots of these shells fossilized into the rock that's really really quite cool I think we're hundreds of years too late to eat those shells so we'll keep looking oh see what I see there's a moray eel too many bones and not enough meat in them when they're that size but if we do get desperate a little bit later they are a source of food this moray eel has got an amazing hunting spot here there's some rapids pushing down he's based at the bottom of the pool and any crabs or anything come over his head he's just he's getting them it's amazing that they're comfortable going fully out of the water getting up on the rocks and slipping around looking for a feed actually while that sun is directly overhead I'm going to try use that to get a fire going so I've come back to back to base camp here and this is a good sign look at all that condensation here all that's that fresh water up the top there that should be then dripping down into the lip how's this guy going there's a double layer so it's a bit hard to tell this here's where I'm going to try get a fire going directly exposed to the sun and a nice wind barrier so pretty much right here I'll just get all the ingredients I need I've got some shavings of the perfect kindling in there got the sun at just the right angle hitting that hopefully that creates an ember when it does we get the other kindling on and up she goes that's the plan oh my eyes come on come on come on oh my eyes there we go yes yes yes yes oh we're away we're away we're finally freaking away oh I really get this cranking and then I'll actually take it up into the shade and out of the sun oh finally oh that's a huge relief so the game plan is now you can keep going all afternoon and then we gotta go find some food all right once this bloke gets started once that one gets started that'll burn all afternoon it should still be going once we get back oh yes low hanging coconuts while we're waiting for our water traps to work these will keep us hydrated perfect nice juicy coconut oh nice beautiful good for eating good for drinking that's good all right let's see if we can go find something to eat oh I think I've spotted a slipper tray over the other side of this bommie I'm gonna go the other side and try oh you are joking no way these guys the slipper craze are so well camouflaged I wasn't sure if I'd seen one actually from the other side I might have spotted two eyes so I thought I just stuck my hand in there and hoped for the best and uh I just felt something moving but luckily they don't move too much they just fully rely on their camouflage and I was able to just pick him up but I just wanted to show you what they look like when they camouflage themselves look at that I've got a knife here so I'll just quickly um finish this guy off and we'll take him back he's gonna be dinner still smoking which is a good sign we'll be able to get this guy going all right that'll smoke up and then eventually light but we've got a couple of hours of light left I still need to build a shelter so that's probably next on the priority list there we go oh tougher than I thought these big salty bits of driftwood they'll just kind of smoke away and burn for hours and hours so you can leave them and by the time you come back even if the fire is out there'll be enough heat in them to to get the fire going again the water running down when I do that between bamboo and coconuts you can do a lot of good things I think we just need three bits of bamboo need a third one oh the anglerfish perfect I think this here is a pretty good spot for the shelter that fire will have a bit of smoke coming over us to keep the bugs off and we have a bit of shade through the day just do a bit of a tidy up one cross member here it's gonna go a pretty simple lean to with three bits of bamboo and some palm fronds that means we just need to give ourselves a little bit of shelter oh tie that down pretty good there we are room for one it's no Taj Mahal but a bit of shelter we're right out of the wind here so it doesn't need to be too sturdy and this will do this will do for the night I need to get something a little bit extra for dinner tonight I've got my eyes on a couple of these coconut trees let's go see if we can find the perfect one so all palm trees in the core of them have a something called a heart the heart of palm coconuts are no exception and it's edible but if you do remove this the tree will die although all these unfortunately are all doomed kind of like a smorgasbord of coconut heart of palms here ready to be eaten they're all perfect perfect timing really this tree is probably a good size for us to have a bit of a crack out with the little knife the heart we're after is about here just back from the fronds under about here to get to it we've got to chop away at all these see this core here this is all edible all right there's the top half of the tree oh that's a bit of edible stuff in there yeah that's good that's good got a bit to go still oh here we go we're getting there all right this is the bit we're interested in I'll clean this up a bit but this is the bit we're interested in the core in here peel the outer layers away and then all that shiny interior is what we want to eat that's the heart of palm coconuts aren't they just amazing hey there's so much you can do with them so many different parts you can eat and here's the heart of palm shave the dirty parts off it's coming home for dinner all right it's now the moment of truth to check our water source you can see down here on the lip it's caught a bit of water take the salt water out it's very hot i think something other some little sand flies have gotten in there to be honest there's not much there's a little bit there's a little bit but i guess the moment of truth let's see whether we've turned salt water into fresh drinking water i'm gonna get a mouthful of sand flies here but be a bit of revenge because they don't they don't mind biting me it's definitely fresh water there's a hint of salt because the bottle was obviously covered in salt but that is definitely fresh drinking water so that's a success a minor success i think for long term we um there's no shortage of plastic bottles so we'll kind of put a whole series of these in here and uh that'll get us a little bit but this is what i always had the highest hopes for let's check how our solar still went let all that raw water run down to the lowest point trying to get the last of those water droplets in the right spot oh there's some serious heat in there that's like an oven at the moment we've got some water we have got some water moment of truth oh you little beauty we have managed to turn salt water into fresh water it's not that much you know like a cup but at the end of the day that could be like all we need to survive another day combined with the hydration of coconuts that we've got yeah this is an essential kind of skill to have if you're ever stuck on a tropical island oh beauty you can see it's just sucked the moisture out of all these leaves i can't believe how hot it is in here be able to cook the um the lobster in here just put him straight in like an oven well i will set that up again for tomorrow all right for this slipper cray they also get commonly called a bug you might know them as i'm just going to give him a nice bed of coals there and put him in it's kind of like an oven in there at the moment oh that's hot i have i've never had one like this cooked on the fire to be honest they're just so well camouflaged they're not as rare as you think there are actually a fair few of them around but they're pretty hard to find being so well camouflaged they do come out at night time and kind of graze over the shallows that's probably your best bet to try find them i think he's done just perfectly let him cool down for a minute all right dinner and lunch is served so on the night of the incident guys when i jumped overboard in that backpack i did have a personal eperb a personal location device of course if the salt didn't go sunk i would have set that off but just due to the remoteness of where we are i can't imagine there'd be any rescue attempt within a couple of days so now that we made it ashore the game plan is to of course stay hydrated with the solar stills the coconuts where we can there's plenty of food getting around with all the heart of palms lining the beach i'd be looking for seafood when i could i got pretty lucky with this bug here but basically get in that type of routine keep the morale up and just kind of cross your fingers that uh that rescue's not too far away just chop these bugs straight in half like you would a a um a crayfish oh it's a bit hot i'm just gonna let that cool down for a sec these bugs are actually my favorite seafood i think they're kind of sweet like a prawn but um cross with a crayfish oh that is just delicious guys amazing now this incident we've recreated guys was without a doubt the worst moment of my life and it's something i hope to never go through ever again and with this survival challenge i've certainly had luck on my side to end up in a tropical island like this eating a crayfish and coconut and i definitely cannot rely on that being the case but it's probably just a bit of a reminder for everyone guys the ocean can be a horrible place so look after yourself when you're out there and that's it for this episode guys i'm going to get into the rest of this food and hopefully that rescue boat's not too far away in the meantime tell your mom you love them and look after your mates see you on the next episode guys cheers