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10 Things to remember if you’re shipwrecked | gCaptain.com

Started by gcaptain · 10 ヶ月 ago

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  • When there is no fresh water, and if there is a tube available, try saltwater enemata for re-hydration.
  • Fred... just don't use the same tube tube for you beer funnel during the "We've been found" celebration kegger!
  • My foot is a horrible judge of lots of stuff. Tried to convince me to buy shares in Enron once.
  • @ Point 4: paralysis is a noun, try paralyse (or paralyze if you prefer American English)
  • Priceless!
  • On number 2: of course drinking urine or bird blood isn't something you would like to do, but couldn't it save your life?

    @fred Does that really work, or is it a joke?
  • I don't know about the enema or bird blood but urine is sterile and ok to drink the problem is it could have a high salt content especially if you've been swimming to save your life.

    "Urine is mostly water, and relatively sterile. But this does not mean it qualifies for the recommended 6 - 8 daily glasses of H2O, and here's why: in addition to the water content, urine contains trace elements of hundreds of other things —from undigested alcohol to nitrogen and potassium, and sodium, which makes it such a salty drink. (By the way, the first pee in the morning is more concentrated; and the more water you drink, the more diluted it will be.) Urine could — in rare cases — also have some toxic substances in it, such as lead or arsenic. It can also contain trace amounts of drugs that the urinating person has recently ingested, though probably not enough to actually give the sipper any high or show up on a drug test.

    Also, if a person were to drink his or her own urine as a substitute for fresh drinking water, the proportion of water content would rapidly decrease as the proportion of harmful waste products increased."

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