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  • Hey, guys, Bear Grylls here and I am on a little island off the West Coast in the u.

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  • Beautiful at the moment on, I'm back from my friends of Vanity Fair.

  • We've done this before where we review Cem Survival cliffs and show how realistic or not they are.

  • We're taking out to the next level of genocide you.

  • So this is life or pie after he's been stranded at sea trying thio catch food.

  • Yeah, First of all, good job respect.

  • I mean, that's a big old fixed to pull out the sea on.

  • As a survivor of that stage, you're pretty desperate.

  • But the thing to remember it in survival good advice is go hungry because your priority really is water, not food.

  • You could survive three weeks without food, but only three days without water.

  • So priority is to source water and conserve water.

  • Whether that's gonna be rainfall or water have already got or you're in.

  • If you're well hydrated, good job for him for catching that fish.

  • Then the game is how do you make it last?

  • You know, he wants becoming thin slivers of that off and then drying it.

  • So you're getting salted fish on did in January and survival Fortune favors the brave, And you have to be brave to land that once a good job.

  • Yeah, So this is all his last and Robert Redford trying to attract attention in Iraq by lighting a signal fire at night.

  • First of all, to do a signal fire on a little rubber raft like that at night is a high risk strategy, but it's actually probably the right one to do.

  • The problem is, that goes the movie magic from a little fire to suddenly a huge fire in the blink of an eye.

  • And the reality is, that's gonna be unlikely to happen.

  • You're gonna be soaking wagon of water.

  • Swilling around in the bottom of that wrath is very unlikely to suddenly turn it on uncontrollable fire.

  • But if that's all you got in that raft and you don't want to take the risk of that, you could have Also, it was millpond in that clip.

  • You could have floated that little box just off to the side of his raft and build the fire, and then and then floated it away so definitely can't rage out of control because, as you saw, when it does go out of control, well, he's in a lot of trouble.

  • That's the end of his raft end of his chance of survival.

  • What happened?

  • But hey, desperate times, desperate measures on.

  • And I think he made the right call.

  • He just didn't concentrate enough hard enough to contain the fire.

  • So this is from the edge, Anthony Hopkins being chased down by an angry grizzly.

  • First thing is, choose your battles in the world.

  • Don't take on the big grizzly like that.

  • Bears especially dangerous when they're with their young or if they're fornicating, don't disturb them then or when they're feeding.

  • Also, if they're surprised, you know they'll be like us as humans.

  • Nobody like to be disturbed doing any of those things.

  • So if you come across a bear back away slowly, don't be a threat to it.

  • Yeah, there was a classic story not so long ago of a polar bear.

  • Attacking people is pretty uncommon and basically turned out that the polar bear had really bad toothache and was trying to ease it to take my chewing on this guy skull.

  • But the key is with survival.

  • You're not gonna be too grisly with your strength.

  • You need to beat it with your brains.

  • And finally, anti Hopkins get smart and realized Fire is man's best weapon.

  • You're not only cook with it and boil water and make food and stay warm.

  • And all of that you could also deter predators.

  • And that's what he cuts onto on fire.

  • It would definitely work against theirs.

  • But maybe he had food in this camp on.

  • If you've got a really hungry bear and you've got food in your camp, even fire, you know it will be some deterrent, but not 100%.

  • So if you have a camping, you got food.

  • Make sure you put the food and any waste food far away from your camp and you store any of your other food up a tree in a bag and then you won't get in that situation.

  • Yeah, So we're about to see the gray with Liam Neeson when he ends up on the wrong end of a fight with a very angry walk thing about wolves.

  • Human attacks by wolves, actually, very rare.

  • I mean said that they are incredibly efficient hunters.

  • They will track and still follow their prey over huge distances on.

  • They will work as a pack if they are really desperate and you are vulnerable and bleeding and dying.

  • That would be a signal to a pack of wolves in with regards how good it is.

  • Thio fight like that.

  • Hey, listen, survival is all about being resourceful and adaptable and coming up with smart way to be using things like you had a knife there and some bottles.

  • I'm not sure about trying to gaffer tape the bottles broke bottles to your knuckles.

  • I think you're probably better off with a knife in one hand on a bottle in the other.

  • Break it.

  • So it's like a stabbing thing is less likely to come off.

  • You know you can control it better getting into the eyes if you need Thio rather than just having it on your fist.

  • But I think the idea of being tracked and hunted by one wolf is unrealistic on DVI.

  • Very, very uncommon.

  • Yeah, okay, so this is into the wild where Chris thinks he's got lucky by getting this huge moose as a source of food.

  • The thing is, people thinking survival on, You know, You know, I'm hungry.

  • I need to go out for the big game.

  • But actually, the key to survival is not hunting the big game because a you're going to use up a lot of energy.

  • You're gonna have a lot of risk to try and kill a moose like that on.

  • And if you are successful, then you've got this problem.

  • You've got all this food.

  • You're not gonna be able to eat all that amount of one go.

  • Unless you really know what you're doing is pretty hard, actually smoking, actually a lot of meat like that.

  • So it preserves for a long period of time.

  • So the great survivors are always forage is what I mean by that.

  • Is there always after the bugs and the grubs and the Berries and the roots on the worms, rather than trying to catch a massive buffalo or moose or whatever for exactly this reason, By the time you get Thio dealing with it on your own and cooking, it is going to spoil very fast.

  • There are things you could do.

  • You can smoke meat, but it is a laborious, actually pretty technical process.

  • So you're much better off going for the grubs.

  • Worms?

  • The Berries?

  • Yeah.

  • So this is from the film Jungle with Daniel Radcliffe, where he had a full on battle with a little lobby.

  • This is where Daniel Radcliffe starts pulling out a bit of larvae that's bird into his forehead, essentially about flying.

  • They lay their larvae inside, and then there's a protected place but the larvae to grow, and then they'll eventually burrow out on DFLers.

  • I away there, no, actually harming you.

  • He's trying to pull it out.

  • They hang on pretty tight.

  • He's fighting what looks like a gargantuan battle, trying to pull this thing out.

  • A good way of getting them out is you just put a little bit of Vaseline or something because they have, like a snorkel antenna that goes out to breathe from, even though that under the skin that stick that snorkel out to be a to breathe on.

  • Then all the eggs will be laid inside, and then those eggs will lobby will grow.

  • But if you started of oxygen, you cover it with a little bit of Vaseline stuff often, then they'll start to appear on their own, and then you can pull them out if he does get it out.

  • Eat it, though.

  • That is great protein.

  • Okay, guys.

  • So there you go.

  • The realities of survival when compared to the movies.

  • Although movies, they're getting better, they're getting smarter.

  • And they're doing their research better than I like to see that Stay safe out there.

  • Remember, all survival could be summed up in three words Never give up.

Hey, guys, Bear Grylls here and I am on a little island off the West Coast in the u.

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