Survival Kit in a Water Bottle 

the best part is that you not only show 'oh, look i have this and that' but you also display things at work which provides audience with a much better understanding

Everyone needs this in every vehicle.. and Every family member needs one

I like finding Nalgene bottles (in good condition) at thrift stores and repurposing them for camping. First aid kits, dry or wet food storage, survival emergency packs, condiments, maple syrup, milk, etc. they’re really a great product.

Some thoughts to this already excellent kit: 1. I’d include a signal mirror and a whistle (e.g. acme slim or fox 40 micro). 2. Add some instant drink powder (coffee, electrolytes, bouillon cubes) 3. What about a mini-bic and reducing the amount of matches? Larger variety, more redundant and the bic will last longer. 4. Tie a short hank of Paracord below the little lip on the bottleneck and clip your carabiner there. The plastic might tear if the bottle get tangled up and then the lid could get lost or even the whole bottle. Also I wrapped some additional duct tape and some para-cord around the outside of the bottle to have it at hand. If you decide to do so, think about swapping the Paracord inside the bottle against dyneema rope. Almost as durable, but you’ll be able to carry more rope with the same bulk. 5. Might consider also a small sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil to be able to make an improvised container foor boiling water or food in it (or even be able to char some cloth). 6. A small canvas needle could be included as well. 7. I’d consider to swap one esbit against a small candle / tealight 8. Maybe some ibuprofen, Imodium and caffeine Tablets in a small pillbox. Just some quick ideas I came across watching your vid.

I’ve been making those for years and the simplest thing is just to carry a 1 gallon Ziploc bag so you can dump the contents in the Ziploc bag dump it in your ruck while you use the bottle to collect water If you use one of the single wall stainless steel bottles available, you now have the ability to boil the water in the same container, doubling it effectiveness

Excellent kit, but you need to have a proper signaling kit built in there (proper signal mirror, signal panel, whistle) and a sterilized bandana (you can dump the bandage and add all the things I'm telling you and it will fit) you can change the mylar blanket for a one who has orange in one side. And add a Steel who fits below the bottle and a couple of Bouillon cubes (some fats and electrolytes) and instant coffee powder, they're very small and excellent morale boosters. Excellent kit above all! Keep the good work! Greetings from Venezuela!

I like all of the items you chose for this kit, my biggest qualm though is that you put the good knife, the matches, and the toilet paper all the way at the bottom

Thank you for an excellent video -- really like that you demonstrated items. Simple suggestion -- line the bottle with a large ziplock bag so you can i) keep the interior of the bottle clean, ii) retrieve things easier, and iii) store small items in the ziplock bag once they are removed. The bag itself can be used to carry stuff, including water. Looking forward to your upcoming Version 2! Thanks again.

I would suggest a coffee filter or 2 as a pre-filter to remove the majority of sediment, before using the Sawyer mini. They are extremely lightweight and can fold down quite a bit. 😎

Awesome kit! Loved the way you explain and demonstrate! Thank you.

Thanks for demonstrating the Sawyer water filter. Really good kit.

additions to the larger bag you showed as an option at the beginning: 8’x tarp or two 4mm contractors bags, touk style beanie, full size chems (saw signal) Cliff bars -great kit

Wow I really enjoyed this! Thanks for demonstrating, you don’t see that a lot on these types of videos! Great kit and great recommendations from everyone. Thanks for the video!

The tiny flashlight with the crank is a dope gadget!

Another great job. Thanks for your time.

Switch out the plastic Nalgene bottle for a single wall SS Kleen Kanteen water bottle so you can boil water. Also, ditch the wire saw...marginal at best. You have SAK with the excellent saw. Just my two cents. Good kit brother! Thanks for posting!

Great video... everything you need in one go. Thanks! 👍

Great kit. The best thing about your videos is that you actually demonstrate many of the items in your kits. Other channels don’t.

This is a really good kit!!!! The only thing I would add is a few more first aid medications and wound treatments, and a little more of that emergency food ration! This is the best water bottle kit I’ve seen! 👍🏼

Amazing !!!! Brilliant idea and organization !

Great vid. Well presented. Two point. The Nalgene loop is not strong enough for long term use being hung from a carabiner. Broken a couple doing that. Second, like the filter demo. In the field use coffee filter or some kind of stainer with dirty water. Make the filter last longer and will not get clogged with dirt.

We like it.! Very functional mate.

I like this video, because not only tell us what you carry, but also demonstrate some gears. Thanks.

the only thing I'd add is a steel cup for the bottle to nest in or change the cup to a steel one so you can boil water but otherwise it will work for short term survival.

I have a similar kit, utilising a steel, single walled ( that was the hardest part to find) bottle, and also containing a rolled up 3L bladder totalling 4.5L ( a bit over 1USgal). Here in Australia, water is especially needed. The steel bottle can also be used to boil water, and is quite sturdy, to say the least. It has an oxygen absorber in it for long term storage in my vehicle.

Add mini bic lighter, fox 40 whistle and some 1 liter whirl pac bags for water and some yellow 3M earplugs can be used for bobber when fishing as well as insert in ears for extra warmth small packets of neo’sporen some tongue depressors and some kind of survival candy( cough drops/peppermints/charms candy) and if possible small packets of honey or peanut butter

Good info. Thanks for sharing!

first of all great kit and great demonstration! Thanks or filming. Like others have said before me. Signal mirror and whistle and maybe a bag liner for the bottle itself so when you have all the items out you can put it in the bag and keep them dry while drinking from your bottle. Also the sawyer mini sp 128 comes with a backflush syringe. If you can find a replacement one smaller and fit it into there do it, because that filter will jam up and water flow will be very slow. Maybe stick the a mirror on the inside of a lid. Also You could upgrade and fins a comparable all 18/8 stainless steel container to replace the nalgene with wide mouth single walled, so you can boil water in the container itself to purify the water to a certain extent. Good stuff. I make EDC bags with a bit of emergency gear in mind too. thanks!

Great survival kit!!!

Super clever!!

This is a cool idea. I like how you demonstrate how to use things. I’m guessing this is for basic or wilderness survival. Thanks for sharing.

One of the best water bottle kits I have seen, very well thought out, Including a pouch is one thing many forget and like you say what you going to do with all the gear? I have a few suggestions that you might like to add, a nesting cup, great for cooking, making pine tea, couple of coffees, Oxo cubes, nice warm drink always makes life seem better ! wrapping duct tape around bottom section of the bottle (to suit nesting cup fit) also some around the top half under which you could trap a loop of para cord, this can be utilised as a carrying loop, but also you could attach a length of cord to lower into a well or a creek. So glad to see the sawyer filter, anyone who as ever boiled water to purify will attest it’s often gag inducing to drink, the sawyer makes palatable safe water, you can of cause use the straw to drink from crevices and puddles. Went camping with some friends, they were all lugging tents, when we got to the spot we were camping they asked where’s your tent? Pulled out a home made tarp from water bottle case (like the one you showed with pouch on front) it was a large tarp too, about 9x9 foot. That would make a fantastic addition to your kit👍

Brilliant Kit - I would look for adding a foldable backpack - I scored a few from a Trade Show freebies give away pack & perhaps a few garbage bags (transpiration water gathering or just making a shelter on a wet trip. The idea below are very well thought out & maybe a small fero rod too.

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Great mini kit😀.

That was actually a cool idea and kids could get involved and make a game of it (Scouts). Something to consider would be a cotton cloth and a drum liner garbage bag both of which would take up to much room. might be able to stuff the drum liner garbage bag at the bottom of the bag and tie the cotton cloth to the water bottle bag? Thank you so much for sharing

Really love how you demonstrated how each of these items work, ie the magnesium striker, the Esbit tabs, the Sawyer mini, etc. I built a similar kit but at a much larger scale. Imo I'd swap out the crank flashlight for a battery flashlight. It gets very very old quick using the crank imo. I'd also swap the medical supplies and have a more fleshed out one, unless of course this is just meant to be an EDC on the go with you and the medikit is its own thing. I'd add a Knipex XS in the bottle because the weakness of SAK are its weak pliers. I'd add a Bic Mini lighter - unless that's part of your EDC kit. I'm torn on the compass thing - it's likely never going to be used but it's also so lightweight and takes no footprint.

A list of contents visible in Bag is also great ..and any perishable items ..need a date

You might be able to use a plastic grocery bag to tote the contents once you empty the bottle. It folds up fairly small and has handles that can be tied or looped around the waist with cord or a belt. A bit of gum or hard candy is always a morale booster:)

Realy good, but one thing I would change: the light. Because the battery would not work alfter 3-5 years and you have to trash the whole lamp. A little AAA lamp is brigther and you can use (expecive) lithium cells, they will work after 10 or more years laying in the bottle :-) Greetings from Germany PS.: Google displyed me your 2. bottle version, fine...

WoW amazing kit...

Nice kit I would for sure add a metal cup that could go over the bottle just to have a way to boil water or cook easier. Have fun be safe.

Really enjoyed the video. A really sound idea. Useful details in the comments regarding what could be added or changed. In addition to having access to a survival kit, how many of the viewers would already have useful items on their person? For example, I always carry an SAK, small torch and a Bic lighter in the right hand pocket of my jeans as part of my EDC.

Hey Cody! It would be helpful to know up front the purpose of the kits. Hard to assess adequacy of contents if we don't know the goals. How long do you anticipate relying on this stuff? Lost on a hike? Bugging out on foot for a destination how far away? E&E? Do you want to be found or not want to be found? Some thoughts anyway: Agree with redundant fire sources but small butane lighter seems an obvious first choice. I am never without a SAK on my person except in the shower. It would be redundant in the kit. Let the lighter take that space. That bottle can handle a bigger fixed blade. As it is, it appears your fixed blade isn't much bigger, if at all, than the long SAK blade. Again, redundancy good, but what exactly is the intended use of the fixed blade beyond what the SAK offers you? Consider a larger folder with locking blade if you need a bigger blade - less space required than large fixed blade. Someone commented on a saw: you have 2, one on the SAK which is very good for its size, and the wire saw. Personally I wouldn't add a third unless it was a 2nd wire saw - so little space required. BTW you can improvise less painful grips for the wire saw by cutting 6-8 inch sturdy sticks with SAK saw to put through the rings for handles. Even with the best gear I am not a good fisherman, and I have never snared anything in my life. Depending on where you are, there may or may not be fish to catch or game to snare. Having the items to do those things is fine, particularly if you have those skills, and they don't take up much space. However I think you have significantly underestimated caloric and macronutrient needs when working strenuously and under stress to survive. I would search out a better protein/fat/carb ratio bar and try to have at least 2400 cal/day. Hard to focus when hungry, hard to wait on snares and fishing to eat. Can set those and keep working to create/improve shelter, gather fuel, etc. or just keep moving if that is necessary depending on scenario. I agree with commenter who expressed concern about the filter and bag fragility. I understand from reviews but not personal experience that some third party bags for the Sawyer are more durable. They also clog, and allowing sediment to settle before filtering is important. You have purification tabs as a backup - I would add more and use the 2 tab version that clears the iodine for palatability. Dysentery is a BAD thing and you'll need a sh - load more wipes than you've got - literally - if you get it. And more water, if you can keep it down. Again depending on your surroundings and intent, carrying potable water to start with would be huge - say in a canteen. I know that defeats the purpose of the water bottle kit idea, but water is SO crucial to survival... IDK if water bottles of this type come in stainless steel or not. If so, would consider because you could boil your water in that which is another tried and true back up for purification and can be used to make instant coffee or tea from packets or bags, which are a morale boost and minor stimulants - which I would include with sweetener/whitener packets in small ziploc. You would lose the transparency and view of bottle contents, but worth it imho. Consider a small travel toothbrush/toothpaste/dental floss for hygiene also. I have small free brush/tiny 1-2 use toothpaste kits from air travel that would fit. Floss useful for a lot of stuff, especially if you include a good sized sewing needle or two. I get the "no batteries - no recharging" idea of the micro lights, but really, do you want to rely on those in a survival setting other than to look in your kit for various items? Some small rechargeable lights will last over 40 hours on low setting, have beacon mode for rescue signaling and afford much brighter settings to evaluate the environment. Clip your Rovyvon or Nitecore to the bottle cap loop or bottle bag where it is readily available for emergency use and for top up charging periodically, or tape it to the inside of the cap if it has to be in the bottle to fit the theme. While I like the idea of maintenance free grab and go kit, the lack of decent illumination in survival setting is too big a trade off for me. A spare recharheable battery for an LED light isn't too bulky either, and can be rotated periodically. IDK how rugged your mylar space blankets are. Some are significantly stronger than others at expense of thickness/size/weight. It may be that two thinner ones might fit where one thicker one won't. Locally foraged insulation - leaves, small bush/conifer branches between two blankets would help. Or ground layer of leaves and brush, blanket, you, and 2nd blanket on top. In general if on the ground you need at least as much insulation under you as over you. Personally, I am blind without my glasses. I'd find a way to cram in a backup pair because I'd be dead without 'em. Finally: WHAT??!! NO tiny harmonica??!! Anyway, some thoughts FWIW, YMMV. Kind regards, John

Great kit 👍

Another good video. Love that you demonstrate the items. I suggest also including a coffee filter or 2. I would def strain the dirty water a time or 2 before putting it through the lifestraw filter. The coffee filters are good for many other things as well.

Hello, very nice and informative video. I don’t know if you heard about the german survival show “7 vs Wild”. The third season is going to be recorded this year and the nominees are already preparing for their time in nature. The basic concept of this year’s season is that seven teams consisting of 2 people are being dropped off in either Alaska or Canada and need to survive 14 days. There is no camera team, they have a camera kit consisting of several go pros powerbanks, memory cards and so on. There is also a flashlight in the film equipment. They also get a medikit and a defence kit against animals, these of course are not allowed to be misused. The last season was on an island in Panama but solo so no teams. The equipment they are allowed to bring is, one sleeping bag for each person and one Nalgene bottle filled with anything they want (apart from illegal stuff and multimedia devices). The bottle is the exact same one you are using. (the metal version is not allowed) The kit you are showcasing already seems to be very good for that purpose, but I really would like to know what you would bring in a bottle for that specific scenario. You could leave out the flashlight and maybe the medical stuff since that is included in the medikit and film equipment. Also you could add more items for catching food or building a waterproof shelter. I would be very happy if you would produce a video with a survival kit for this scenario. And I am convinced that the video will be well received, you could also add the hashtag 7vswild to draw even more attention to it.

Hey, where's the fixed blade knife link?

I have a similar setup with the bigger bag. The only difference is that I use a steel bottle so I can use it to boil the water as well.

I’d definitely switch to a metal bottle for the redundancy of sterilization option of boiling water

Yes please were did you find the splint outer tool. I had one but daughter walked off with it.

A good kit. I liked the fact that you demonstrate several items like the Sawyer, matches etc To maximise it it would be better in a stainless steel Nalgene (or Pathfinder or any other brand) to allow for boiling water. Survival is not mean to be permanent by definition so I would drop the MiniSawyer and add 50 water purification tablets, save space and weight. 50 liters will give you 25 days and you may also boil water from the steel bottle. For fire, once you've master it the firesteel is enought, no need for matches (take space). So 2 firesteel (the main with magnesium and the backup Firefly, a great product) and the fresnel lense should cover all fire needs for a loonngg time. Replace the gauze by a clean buff, so it has other uses if you do not have wound. Regarding the crank light...you have to understand that it carry a samll battery in it to store the crank energy it so it will died. Unfortunately those little gadget are not made with quality in mind so I would not trust my life on it, I would rather carry a quality AAA flashlight with 2 lithium AAA. Won't last for eternity but some 100 hours with the same lumens as the crank one. Should be enought for survival. Instead of the fancy Titan paracod, bring Dyneem cordage, much stronger and lighter so you can take more with you, cordage will help a lot to built shelter, traps etc etc. so the more you have the better. A 1mm dyneem rope have a 195 daN or kg breaking point and weight 0,09kg/100m when the titan paracord weight 1kg for 100m for a 250 daN. As for the multiwire...you already have tinder (magnesium and solid fuel) you have fishing line so if weight for weight you replace the paracord by dyneema you can have a lot more. I would use the space and weight saved by the above changes to add another space blanket or any other kind of tarp to keep you warm and protected from rain. As mentionned by Rafael from Venezuela who has good advices in his post : A mirror is a must have, if you ever got something in your eyes when alone you know how much a miror is priceless and you can signale yourself too !! And yes, weight for weight replace the ration by some coffee or tea and some Bouillon cubes, it will be worth it after some days to be able to drink a warm soup or a good coffee for morale booster. Remember, after 3 or 4 days your body will enter in ketosis and use your body fat so you will not be as hungry but you will need your morale to be strong, survival is a mind issue, not a material issue.

Not bad. I would add a nesting metal cup for your bottle to sit in. All the professional survivalists (Les Stroud, Mychal Hawk) base their kit around a metal container. Fire kit should be one handed since your hand might be injured. Utilize outside of bottle by wrapping in duck tape, maybe cordage.

Great kit! I'd add one thing, for pure amateurs like me, and that's a... List! Just to remember what you put in there lol in case you want to add anything inside.. Thx!

Stuff in there could seriously be improved, but the biggest flaw is the water bottle. Should be a stainless steel bottle, preferably with a nested stainless steel (or titanium) mug. Just because you have a Sawyer Mini doesn't mean you forego the need to boil your water. And you're already set up to fail, because without a bandana (or some other cloth), which you would use to pre-filter your dirty water before running it through the Sawyer Mini, it will clog up really fast. Plus, without the syringe to backflush the Sawyer Mini, which will clog up badly without pre-filtering your water using the bandana, your water filter is pretty much dead. And the jackpot question of the day would be: where does all the rest of the stuff go when your water bottle is full of water?

I just wanna point out, that for your wind up flashlight to last, you need to keep a lot of charge in it. It does have a battery in it. If you don't keep a charge in it, the battery will stop working, AKA it won't hold a charge. Better to have a small AA light and stick 2, 25 year energizer batteries in with it. Should take up about the same amount of room, and you'll have a better chance of the batteries working after sitting in this kit for years.

The blanket is a Mylar blanket. I would put a Banda to filter water

Good kit complet bravo 🇲🇫.

Buen kit de supervivencia ........pero si a la botella de echo agua donde guardo el kit......

If shit goes down were all headed to the woods with our tinder sticks, and multi tools.

Hello, can you please tell me where you bought your food bar? Thank you.

Great kit. Can you leave a link for the neck knife?

This showed up in my feed within days of me getting the idea for a survival kit packed into a single wayer bottle

How about something to carry everything when you wish to put water in the bottle and then carry the bottle.

The gauze takes up too much room, I would eliminate it and put three times as much 550 cord. The matches should be in a small ziploc pill bag. The compressed towels could also be used as tinder. I also include a heavy duty quart Ziploc bag to put the gear in when I have to remove it from the bottle, and I include two 12" by 12" sheets of aluminum foil and two cone coffee filters to pre-filter my water. You could tie a bandana around the top or put it at the bottom of that pouch, also.

Great kit when and where are they for sale

Excelente

I am currently trying to build a spydernox sak deluxe tinker. I know you built one on camera before but could you do an in detail on how to disassemble and reassemble?

Do we need to dry the water filter after each use?

Having a good saw could be the difference between making it through the situation and being a missing body

The miniSawyer...it is a great filter BUT as all filters if submit to freezing temp. will break inside. You will not know it but the water you will drink won't be purified anymore. So these filters are wonderfull when backpaking because you can carry them against your body in case of low temp. BUT in a survival idea it is a dangerous item, unless you live in tropical area of course...

Check those wind up lights. I had a couple in my gear for years, then when I went to check them NONE of them would light. OK, I'm an engineer, so I open one up. There were watch batteries in there. Just like many of the shake lights have a wound weight connected to nothing and there are 3-4 coin batteries.

(in portuguese Brazil): Achei muito legal! Falta um recipiente metálico para fazer algo exemplo sopa. Eu tenho comigo uma folha de alumínio que poderei formar um copo. _ Por um momento, achei que era um kit sobrevivência em local de trabalho. Eu colocaria mais corda fina para nós e construções com amarras. A proposta é um kit. Kit são pequenos, minimalistas. Nessa abordagem está bem construído.

Curious;;; see quite a few videos people using their water bottles for a survival kit;;; can't help but wonder how they plan to carry water with their bottle used to carry their kit

Substitute the plastic bottle with metal.

Never heard a carabiner pronounced that way but love the content

excellent kit; maybe instead of the emergency blanket; have a look at the emergency ponchos with reflective inners; then you get some instant protection and cover. the ones i use are camo outside and reflective inside; and you can turn them inside out obviously. they are also slightly better quality and have more options for creating a shelter (due to the poncho hood) heres some extra ideas that might fit the form factor: also adding some sugar, salt, coffee satchels and a couple ibuprofen (as probably will need them in whatever disasters causing you to open the kit for real; to make your feet stop hurting etc) some of the bags for the products could also be swapped out with bigger bags (or an inner lined glad bag) to use for the pouch and extra waterproofing. would also try a single walled metal bottle/canteen instead; if can fit; some cash and a memory chip with photos of SO, kids, documents, maps, maybe a small sheet of paper with local radio frequencies, repeaters etc :)

Good Kit, alothough I HATE "water bottle survival kits"! Reason being - if you are heading out, 10 out of 10 times, you should fill your water first! And you can't do that when your bottle is full of crap. Perhaps you should have a survival kit which includes a bottle?? Lastly... How in the heck did you fit that stove in the bottle???

Of you have room to spare I would put in some painkillers (like ibuprofene or acetaminophen)

Great Kit. Should be really helpfull in an emergency. But why did you chose a pencil and not Plus Scales for the Victorinox? You could have a pen with less space used. Also this set definitly needs a metal cup for cooking and boiling water

So what’s the benefit of having everything in the water bottle?

I recommend putting your first aid kit in a separate modular pouch - this is wasting the utility of the water carrier

This is a good kit. Copper wire is a bad choice tho' as it's much much softer than brass. Those old Vietnam spec magnesium Ferro blocks are excellent ! Fresnel lenses are a great wallet backup. A lighter might be better than matches tho'.

I basically like the idea of the firefly ferro rods; but they are so fragile. And I like to keep the toothpick. You can fit a 3/16” ferro rod under the saw. Fits perfectly with the SAK Alox Farmer & Camper, so I imagine it would also fit with your SAK Huntsman. It would be great if you could share the name/link of the small knife you showed at 13:10. Thank you.

Too bad if it's an emergency and you need to get something out fast.

I need to get me one of those furr-ose-um rods.

Will it fit an ounce of coke?

Can’t understand why you don’t use a metal bottle. Nalgene bottles are trendy, but you shouldn’t boil water in plastic. And that Sawyer filter is not going to take care of viruses

Where does one put all the shit that was in the bottle once you put water or juice to drink in the bottle

Swap out that plastic water bottle for a stainless steel one so you can boil water to kill the parasites that the filter doesn't catch

This Kit makes me go …. Do he - want to survive because shtf after a car crash, got lost etc … or is it a military Stil kit, that makes him survive the way from a to b. 🤔 so many questions. If u want to be seen … no marker? No Chalk? No Orange Tape or 550 Cord? No whistles? And if don’t want to be seen, grey tape in a forest? Bright Blue Bottle and Bag. + the sawer bags always like to fail the worst time possible. If urs would, u couldn’t filter water anymore, except for drinking with the filter directly. So a Metal Bottle and Water purification’s Tablets would be a easy answer. And depending on ur preference can paint or let the Metal bottle be unpainted- low/ hi vis.

So, every time you need something, you have to empty the bottle......

3 weeks I would still probably be fat

Macgruder has nothing on this guy

Whistle…

Interesting idea. But in a survival / emergency mode, I prefer to be a survivor and not a pack rat. Cool idea, just not my style.

Your idea is now copied for the next 7 vs. wild 3 show.

As soon as I saw the bracelet and that wind up torch I bailed

This is awesome can you please send me one as a gift sir?

do you intentionally pronounce everything incorrectly?