Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

Yes, they didn't even bring water!

After all, under normal circumstances, this is actually the situation when you are stranded at sea. After all, not everyone can read a navigation chart, and not everyone can identify directions at sea!
So in most cases, it’s just drifting, wherever it drifts to is where it goes.

In this situation, it is rare to be able to bring a lot of food, and generally there will be nothing.

So how did they get food and water? The answer is simple: catching crabs and distilling seawater.

Yes, it's just as outrageous as it sounds!

But in fact it is a very reliable practice. For Xia Yuan, who was born in a family of old fishermen, these are life-saving tricks passed down by the elders in the family.

His grandfather had an accident at sea in the past. He drifted on a small raft for a month before being rescued and brought home. He survived by floating on the sea and reaching an island.

Use clothes to make a shape similar to a net bag.

Then, in fact, crabs do not swim at the bottom, but they hunt and take oxygen not far below the water surface at night, and they jump in the water.

At this time, as long as you are quick, you can fish it out directly.

Not to mention that from time to time there would be some small schools of fish passing by, and you could catch some fish, so there was really no need to worry about food.

The most important thing is the fresh water issue, which is the most difficult.

Don't drink sea water carelessly, it can really kill you.

Water is known as the source of life, and not drinking water for two days is enough to make an adult weak.

If you don’t drink water for three or four days, you will die.

Therefore, water is definitely the top priority no matter where you go.

As for other things, food is not urgent. When there is a lack of food, the human body will consume the fat in the body as nutritional reserves, so it will not be so easy to starve to death in a short time.

Food in the wild is uncertain, but water must be certain.

Xia Yuan chose to distill seawater and brought a plastic bottle directly onto the boat.

The method is also very simple, which is to cut the mineral water bottle into two halves horizontally, and turn the upper part upside down on the lower part to form a funnel shape.

Then fill the lower half with sea water, making sure the water level does not exceed the edge of the inverted bottle mouth, and place another part of the bottle under the inverted bottle mouth to collect the condensed fresh water.

Finally, use tape, plastic wrap, or other material to seal the cut seams of the bottle to ensure that steam cannot escape.

Xia Yuan used a small sail here.

Then tilt the device, for example by raising one side with stones or blocks, so that the condensed water can flow to the collection container.

When exposed to sunlight, the seawater evaporates to form water vapor, which condenses into fresh water on the bottle wall and drips into the small bottle.

Wait a few hours and collect a small amount of fresh water.

However, this method also has a problem, that is, the salt in the seawater cannot be completely evaporated.

Even if water vapor condenses into fresh water, there will be a small amount of residue.

This method removes most salts and impurities, but it cannot eliminate volatile pollutants such as petroleum.

If conditions permit, other filtration methods, such as sand filtration, can be combined to further purify the water.

Unfortunately, Xia Yuan's conditions did not allow it.

However, this kind of water can still be drunk in a life-saving critical moment. Some harmful ingredients can be metabolized by normal human physiological levels as long as they are not in large doses.

Even though solar energy has a slow distillation speed and can only collect 100-200 ml of fresh water a day, this is enough to meet the minimum needs of the human body.

What's more, they have multiple devices connected in parallel. Because from time to time, a few water bottles would float over from the sea, and there was even a big bottle from a certain Fushan Spring!

It has to be said that this is the current state of the marine environment.

So you will definitely not be short of plastic bottles at sea. This thing is really a frequent visitor among frequent visitors, and you will see it every now and then.

So, the problem of food and drink was solved. They ate raw crabs and raw fish, and after two days of drifting, they arrived at the filming location.

That is the uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean that was selected.

As soon as they got off the boat, Xia Yuan and Tang Ying towed the boat ashore.

After all, boats are made of wood.

There is no need to say much about the role of wood.

Xia Yuan would definitely not let go of such a good resource.

And no one knows whether this small boat will be used for other purposes in the future.

So it is definitely impossible to just throw it away like this.

after all
"In the wilderness, we have to keep anything that might be useful to us, including these plastic bottles," said Xia Yuan.

Yes, and he also brought over the bottles they had salvaged from the boat.

There are a total of five bottles that have not been cut and can be used for other purposes.

Even bottles made into distiller's bottles can have other uses.

"If there is no water source on the island, these tools we have will come in handy and we can use them to collect distilled water."

Once they reached the island, they selected a place to spend the night during the first phase.

It is located not far from the beach, behind a huge rock.

Tang Ying acted as the photographer, and Xia Yuan said to the camera, "This is our best choice. It's getting dark soon, and it's not a wise choice to go into the woods at this time.

Since we had just arrived, none of us could guarantee what was inside.

So for the sake of insurance, in order to avoid encountering something that we can't deal with, especially when we don't have anything in our hands, we must protect our own lives. Here, we don't need to enter the forest, and we don't need to worry about being flooded after the tide rises. It is actually the most perfect choice."

Then, they carried out the first-time operation.

The first thing is to build a shelter, and then make a "clothes" for Xia Yuan that can wrap up the little brother.

Otherwise, it would not be a good idea to be naked all the time. In fact, he would not feel comfortable doing so.

After all, he is a civilized person in modern society. This makes him feel like he is running naked in public, which is not comfortable at all.

This is true even if the only audience member is his wife.

But their luck was good, even very good.

Because not long after they arrived at the selected shelter, they walked a few dozen meters forward and saw two coconut trees, which were densely covered with young coconuts.

Xia Yuan was immediately overjoyed: "We have come across a good thing! This thing has many uses. We won't have to worry about the problem of fresh water in the short term, and we don't have to worry about our lives for the time being.

Coconut water can also provide the human body with necessary electrolytes. In fact, its osmotic pressure is very close to that of normal saline. Here’s some basic information for you. In times of crisis, as long as you have a needle, you can even use it as glucose infusion!

Yes! That’s right! Directly injecting coconut water into the human body as glucose! It’s so exaggerated! "(End of this chapter)