The Island -Bear Grylls
Discussion
Halb said:
The great Pacific garbage patch is yuuuge, wouldn't be surprised at anything that gets washed up
I read a travel book once written by a guy who trekked down the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula. He found bottles of spirits every day, often still full and sealed. He thought it was hilarious to start with, getting p*ssed every night, but hiking through desert heat with a hangover soon cured him.I suppose the bottles came out of larger containers which had been washed overboard.
Robertj21a said:
Given that the island isn't really very big, and they've now been there for some weeks, it seems strange that they've never seen or heard any pig at any time, let alone two.
Surely they hadn't been conveniently imported overnight .......?
I claimed in an earlier post that the net wouldn't catch it, and indeed it didn't - a trap succeeded. However, although the participants are given some training in advance, we didn't see the trap being built, only a couple of people fiddling with it in fully-assembled state. I have a (cynical) hunch that they didn't construct it or have much to do with the final entrapment.Surely they hadn't been conveniently imported overnight .......?
How long has the show got to go? They were talking about the pig being sufficient to get them to the end. I can't see that happening.
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Bear tells us in nearly every episode that he has ensured there is enough food on the island, yet every week someone pipes up 'I bet that pig/bird etc was planted there'.
No s
t sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before.
Just *ensuring* there is enough food isn't the same as deliberately planting food there.No s
t sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before. Robertj21a said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Bear tells us in nearly every episode that he has ensured there is enough food on the island, yet every week someone pipes up 'I bet that pig/bird etc was planted there'.
No st sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before.
Just *ensuring* there is enough food isn't the same as deliberately planting food there.No s
t sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before. Ayahuasca said:
Robertj21a said:
Dr Doofenshmirtz said:
Bear tells us in nearly every episode that he has ensured there is enough food on the island, yet every week someone pipes up 'I bet that pig/bird etc was planted there'.
No st sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before.
Just *ensuring* there is enough food isn't the same as deliberately planting food there.No s
t sherlock...they still have to find it and kill it which isn't easy if you've never had to do that before. It is real, I do some work for the guy that decides wether the island can support the people for that period if time by being placed there with minimal equipment for a couple of weeks.
He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
shedweller said:
It is real, I do some work for the guy that decides wether the island can support the people for that period if time by being placed there with minimal equipment for a couple of weeks.
He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
No, it is not. The pigs and flightless birds do not live on the island. He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
Ayahuasca said:
shedweller said:
It is real, I do some work for the guy that decides wether the island can support the people for that period if time by being placed there with minimal equipment for a couple of weeks.
He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
No, it is not. The pigs and flightless birds do not live on the island. He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
shedweller said:
It is real, I do some work for the guy that decides wether the island can support the people for that period if time by being placed there with minimal equipment for a couple of weeks.
He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
Russian bots get everywhere it seems He's an adventurer and a safety & survival expert that has worked with bear for years, A really interesting chap..... He's the one you want to be stranded with... Not Bear...... Bears a great motivator and leader with great energy but he's not a true survival "expert" like Dave is.
Schermerhorn said:
I have a naive question; how do pigs end up on such remote islands anyway?
Same way we have land animals in the UK, at some point in history there was a land bridge, then it either got eroded away or the sea level rose or whatever to remove it. Or humans sailed there at some point and left them to establish a population.Or did you mean the rotund contestants on this show? In which case send a parrot my way
Edited by budgie smuggler on Wednesday 25th April 11:03
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