The Island -Bear Grylls
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briangriffin said:
Yeah I'd agree the weakest one so far, what would you prefer the set up be for next series?
I think I'd like to see perhaps white collar professionals/ typical city folk who haven't ever had to get their hands dirty on one island vs blue collar workers/ tradesmen with hands on skills.
Brains vs brawn perhaps In a simplified sense
I like that idea! I'm just getting a bit bored of the 'almost dying' storyline. Let's see a group really flourish (I can't recall a series yet where this has happened but I'm sure someone else will be along to point out the obvious)!I think I'd like to see perhaps white collar professionals/ typical city folk who haven't ever had to get their hands dirty on one island vs blue collar workers/ tradesmen with hands on skills.
Brains vs brawn perhaps In a simplified sense
I do want to see a group that builds a proper house with running water, from a stream, and constant supply of food from daily hunting parties.
Can't some of the greenery be eaten like spinach or a salad?
As a previous poster has said. Plenty of stuff on Youtube on how to survive.
Jerrycan of seawater on the fire, a long pipe attached to the spout to collect the boiled and desalted evaporated water and bob's your uncle.
Unless planted, if there is one turkey, there must be loads more. Capture and stick in pens.
On the Surviving the Island programme they showed the guys/gals saving turtle eggs from a crumbling sand ledge and burying them elsewhere.
40 odd turtle eggs! Eat them you fools!
Can't some of the greenery be eaten like spinach or a salad?
As a previous poster has said. Plenty of stuff on Youtube on how to survive.
Jerrycan of seawater on the fire, a long pipe attached to the spout to collect the boiled and desalted evaporated water and bob's your uncle.
Unless planted, if there is one turkey, there must be loads more. Capture and stick in pens.
On the Surviving the Island programme they showed the guys/gals saving turtle eggs from a crumbling sand ledge and burying them elsewhere.
40 odd turtle eggs! Eat them you fools!
croyde said:
Jerrycan of seawater on the fire, a long pipe attached to the spout to collect the boiled and desalted evaporated water and bob's your uncle.
More chance of a Liebig condenser washing up on the shore than them figuring that out.Mind you, they still wouldn't know what to do with it without prior training and a few phone calls to the support team.
croyde said:
I do want to see a group that builds a proper house with running water, from a stream, and constant supply of food from daily hunting parties.
Can't some of the greenery be eaten like spinach or a salad?
As a previous poster has said. Plenty of stuff on Youtube on how to survive.
Jerrycan of seawater on the fire, a long pipe attached to the spout to collect the boiled and desalted evaporated water and bob's your uncle.
Unless planted, if there is one turkey, there must be loads more. Capture and stick in pens.
On the Surviving the Island programme they showed the guys/gals saving turtle eggs from a crumbling sand ledge and burying them elsewhere.
40 odd turtle eggs! Eat them you fools!
I don't know if they're still using the same island but certainly on the first season it emerged that there wasn't a suitable (ie. reliable) supply of surface water on the Island and that the producers had to basically make a large pond and fill it with fresh water. Mind you, I think that was in the dry season. Can't some of the greenery be eaten like spinach or a salad?
As a previous poster has said. Plenty of stuff on Youtube on how to survive.
Jerrycan of seawater on the fire, a long pipe attached to the spout to collect the boiled and desalted evaporated water and bob's your uncle.
Unless planted, if there is one turkey, there must be loads more. Capture and stick in pens.
On the Surviving the Island programme they showed the guys/gals saving turtle eggs from a crumbling sand ledge and burying them elsewhere.
40 odd turtle eggs! Eat them you fools!
Distillation of seawater sounds good in theory but it's really inefficient and fiddly to do, so it's never going to be suitable for providing water for a large group over an extended period. I'd have thought that given how they seem to be there in the wet season this year, the 'survivors' would have had the gumption to set up a water collection system which would have minimised their trips to the water source.
Edible greenery is going to provide some useful vitamins but isn't going to give you the calories to do work or even stay alive.
The turkeys were likely put on the Island by the production team - probably introduced 'on demand' whenever it's imperative that the survivors get some meat or they want to get some footage of them 'hunting'.
The best bet is fishing - that should provide a steady source of food. However, they seemed to be pretty rubbish at it, relying on pole and line from the rocks which was very hit and miss. Would have thought that they'd try to make fish traps and a raft to fish from. Maybe even make a net if they could scavenge enough cordage from the washed up rubbish.
I suspect that they were coddled enough by the production team that they didn't feel the need to put too much effort into anything and had the mindset that they were on an adventure holiday on a tropical island.
I do it know what type of turtle the eggs were, but you'd have to be a solid gold 
to eat them in my opinion, this isn't real life it's a game show, for amusement for people to pick over back home.
The format needs a rejig, not sure what though. U.K. V France? Wales v Scotland? Labour versus tories? Yorkshire versus Lancashire
to eat them in my opinion, this isn't real life it's a game show, for amusement for people to pick over back home.The format needs a rejig, not sure what though. U.K. V France? Wales v Scotland? Labour versus tories? Yorkshire versus Lancashire
Halb said:
I do it know what type of turtle the eggs were, but you'd have to be a solid gold to eat them in my opinion, this isn't real life it's a game show, for amusement for people to pick over back home.
The format needs a rejig, not sure what though. U.K. V France? Wales v Scotland? Labour versus tories? Yorkshire versus Lancashire
If they disturbed turtle eggs in Panama they broke the law. to eat them in my opinion, this isn't real life it's a game show, for amusement for people to pick over back home.The format needs a rejig, not sure what though. U.K. V France? Wales v Scotland? Labour versus tories? Yorkshire versus Lancashire
TTmonkey said:
The croc they killed in one season, which it was admitted was planted by the tv producers, turned out to be a rare and protected species. But of a fuss about that one.
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