I’m so surprised by how little comments or views this has. Amazing content from a trained professional. Yet so many take it for granted. Remember everything is all good till it’s not. Thank you Les Stroud for your great videos
This was the most impressive thing I've ever seen Les make on the show. The combination of salvaged materials working perfectly together with the overall implications if he DIDN'T make it work made it such an amazing achievement. If I recall correctly, this was his only reliable water for 3-5 days prior to finding some rain pools further inland. So this was truly a life or death MacGyverism!
This works and I've used it while surfing at a remote beach after our large water bottle had a sneaky leak. We actually made three so we didn't need to head home while the surf was pumping.
I didn't see it mentioned in the video, but you should add a little bit of salt water back into the fresh water because humans can't survive on distilled water for too long.
I was going to comment this as well. In one of these shows Les even drank about a shotglass full of straight sea water to get the minerals and salt missing from the distilled water he made
Interesting. I would have missed this idea, so thank you for sharing. If this is true, then that bit of salt water might also give one that extra little bit of water. I wonder what ratio of common sea salt water to distilled water is safe for one to drink on a regular basis.
You can actually wrap the outside of the steam pipe with something that soaks up and holds water and it will help to cool down the steam passing through even more since water takes up heat a lot better than the air going against the pipe and it will make it easier for the heat to spread evenly and create an equalibrium faster, since it can conduct heat more efficient, only downside is that you have to keep it wet or it will actually become like an insulator, so when you're close by the fire, perhaps recovering from a day of walking you can use this trick to get even more of the vapor into condensation.
Thank you for posting these masterclasses! I love them!. While I have not personally tried this, I would first fill the pipe with sand while bending it to keep it from kinking. If anyone has first hand experience with this technique, please reply to this comment and let me know how effective it is. Thanks!
I worry about all the things no one talks about.... parasites in fish? Can i cook in a bean can? Don't those have a coating inside? Can burning certain wood (or plants) give off bad stuff? I must know! Big fan... thanks!
I understand that the effort exerted needs to be for a reward. That said I have viewed a survival tactic that seemed to make more sense than making the still. That technique was to dig wells at varying distances from the salt water source until the earth filters out the salt. I can't remember who I saw uae this technique but I always wondered what Les thinks of it? Often if not always you are at sea level and those wells don't have to be all that deep Similar to how far guys in the woods used the earth and a bucket to filter swamp water.
That would 100% not work unfortunately. Water can be desalinated by filtration, but not in a simple way like this. A Sawyer Squeeze, the popular backpacking water filter, which is undoubtedly much finer and more effective than digging an adjacent well, can filter out bacteria, but cannot desalinate water. Molecular sieve devices that CAN filter out the salt are less than 1 nanometer, which is 100 times smaller than the .1 micrometer pore size of the Sawyer. I think the adjacent well technique is only applicable for pre-filtering large particles like dirt from water before further purification. In Les's Australian Outback episode he does this and follows it with boiling before consuming.
@@laurelrunlaurelrun I am not advocating for only 1 well but moving from the salt water source in terms of 10 meter increments. I find it hard to believe that the earth couldn't filter out the salt over distance? however I don't live near the coast to try the technique.
@@cjgia4898 well you mix your sugar with your grains let that sit for about 5 days depending on the temperature after it's been sitting turn it off into a pot you are the same technique that he is using and you will get pure alcohol
@@jb.899 Thank you. So, hypothetically speaking, if I were to do such a thing (maybe up in the woods back here), I could be making moonshine in my backyard!? I love learning something new everyday. 😊✌❤
