How To Turn Sea Water Into Drinking Water | Ed Stafford: First Man Out 

imagine being on an island needing to survive and the camera man is just standing there drinking from one of his bottles of water and eating a chicken sandwich

YES!!!! FINALLY SOMEONE DOES IT!!!!! I did this in middle school as part of a science fair (boiling salt water and condensing it with a tube), and everyone criticized it because there was still a bit of salt in the water so it still wasn’t drinkable (LIES!!!!), and I said you needed to boil it 2 or 3 times to completely eliminate the salt, but they said that it was going to have salt no matter what because the tube collected salt and re-salted the water vapor, and I ended up loosing to some asshole with a stupid rainbow *PLANT!!!!* (Sorry for the outburst. Watching someone prove an idea that everyone laughed at years ago resurfaced some repressed emotions)

Good to see all of the RU-vid expert survivalists are here in the comments to teach them what they are doing wrong.

This is one of the best shows i have watched in a very long time, honestly...this is so good, and in fact, one of the only shows worth watching on tv.

so should we throw more garbage into oceans to help unfortunate stranded people ?

I love how this guy deals with nature

wooooow he boosted my morale and I'm watching this next to a fridge full of water. i need a drink now lol

im guessing they didnt let him put charcoal on his whole face for sensitivity reasons

He looks special Ed in the thumbnail

Ed Stafford is the best

Man: let's build easy raft to get of this island quick Woman: Pirate Ship

Ed : Let’s build a raft and get to the objective Woman : I shall build a raft with a mast on it to contribute to the tribes that built it last time .

You've got Coconut Water hanging in them Tree's buddy.

I saw this episode a long time ago and I never forgot how he managed to make drinkeable water from seawater

“I need to up the pace now.” Five minutes later.... “I need to up the pace now.”

Me: cool I wanna do that Also me: struggling to fold bed

"This is the moment of truth..........yup.......its meth!......Look at thaaaat.......thaaaaaat is meth that I made.....now we up the ante!"

The legend is bacc

Well if I'm ever stranded on a remote island now I know how to make drinking water from seawater. Just hope I can find material to mimic the process. I don't recommend boiling water in a rusty can but if that's all u got.

I'm conviced Ed Strafford is actually Will Forte playing a European survival expert.

3:56 S W A M P L E T I C S

I learned how to make that kind of water desalinator in the Army. There are actually a few different ways to do it. This is the best in my opinion though.

I learn something new from this vid... Awesome

4:47 camera man spotted!

1:11 I just thought this is something else

Expert survivor

I thought Survivorman do this and then I saw Ed do this and I was like is it possible so I took a big metal drum made the water start boiling and I had a plastic pipe going from the top to my water bottle containers and it worked I could not believe that

We'll need this very soon

I was living in Palau at this time and worked on cats crew. She was a total badass. Great time

Thank you for your kindly shared information how to help.

Why doesn't school educate us on these things? What if I just wanna live on an island?? Or what if I get stranded in one?

No beers makes a desert Island just another prison. Beers are the cornerstone to happiness

Anybody is going to comment on the fact that she isn't getting dehydrated?

Ed's like a hyper-evolved karl Pilkington

Boil the sea water and put something above the thing ur boiling in to collect the drops. The drops are basically pure water

3:38 look at the his pants 😂

I like ed's smile

yes yes yes. I win your competion. I love your idea. I really love your video. You are a man of the year.

I wanna see an Ed and Bear team up!

This man is such a freaking badass

salt taste likely from inside of bottle tube

Love these videos gives me ideas if my mrs ever dumped me on a island

Can i have the full link for this episode please :'(

she is building a mast lol

Ild use sand and a flat ended stick in the hole to drill through

Keep pouring water over the plastic bottles so they don't melt

This is mind-blowing

it’s when you see clips like this you can truly grasp the negative impact we’ve had on earth. Just look at the trash that will remain there for years and years.

So by double or triple boiling you would probably have good salt free water

Its fresh wutah da a mayd🥰🥰

Design for this method are thinkfor water by sun light if plantaion must than some dropping irrigation methods can helful

First man out spoil the final of this episode...😂😂👍🏻

All full episode please

boiling the water and collecting the steam is good but if you're taking the salt out you should add a small bit back in because you need sodium

The camera man: *i dont see anything wrong here! Ima just walk around.*

Thanks to reality tv, for making this.

THAT IS FREAKING AMAZING!

3:40 anyone realized his pants are ripped

Extremely beautiful beaches!!! Great device to make drinking water from the sea. You could show your high tech machine to NASA because we need to make drinking water affordable for the masses.

Public "It can filter and remove the salt" Chef "Gimme the salt, is finished, the jar is empty!" People *Pee in the sea* Me "So how do you filter the pee!?"

I know Ed. Who are the guy and Cat? Are they ex-soldiers as well?

@Discovery UK - Is there a proper longer video from which this clip is taken???

So cool I love it. 🤠

I like how he says water That is fresh woahtuh lol

Ed Stanford

yeah, a little salt is fine for electrolytes, as long as the water is about the same level of salt as a sports drink pack so around 600mg per 16oz or 500ml should be ok then , Im not an expert but seems like it is true.

This is the only time that your excited the beach is covered in plastic.

Why did he say my head is throbbing😂😂😂

cooking by turns things that won't hurt you but can't be eaten like bark and other things such as boiling fish and crab my be tested with salt test kits for future show. good luck.

Upload full video of first amn out

Will doing the whole process again will remove that little bit of a salt?

ほんとにエド可愛い。

Would grounded charcoal be able to filter out the salt further?

"Thaht ees freesh wootah thaht i mayde"

Wouldn't putting black charcoal on your face absorb more light thus heating your skin up more? I could understand making the floor of the raft black so less light is reflected back up but i don't understand putting it on your face

It's actually a blessing and a curse that plastic bottles exist

*So this video could have been 30 seconds?*

How is this program called ??

4:26 he looks like that homeless guy from dennis the menace

What this show called and what’s this specific episode

U don’t need a sail girl look at him he used a paddle

these survival islands always have trash on them, but what if they didn’t? i suppose no matter where you were stranded in the world you would be around trash but still, i mean, how did they do it before plastic?

who else likes Ed's smile

Everyone ignores the obvious when it comes to water... leaves. Until you can purify enough potable water, you can inhibit the acceleration of dehydration by chewing leaves. You’d be surprised.

Desalination plants were like this before they grew bigger than this! 🤣😂

surely you could use the tip of the light bulb if its intact to start a fire like a magnifying glass. Youd have to hold it upside down i suppose but i bet thats doable

My Minecraft skills would carry me through that 😄

One word. “Alone”

was trying to find in the comments what idea won, the mast or getting water then paddling. couldn't find it, darn

anyone notice ed had a knife to cut the bottles !! but cat was using a rock to make the mast hole what the frig !!

We have so much water

Is it distilled water?

Who won?

If you dig down will the water that comes be salty

How did it produce so much water

Nigga's don't get sunburn ?

I just use a desalinator that I have. It’s a lot easier.

im guessing, how did he find a lumber to the boat?

0:03 as a surfer I would like to see that left with a big swell

Water distillation. I distill my tap water and it filters so much out....