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I'm stranded on a deserted island off the coast of Central America.
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I have no food, no water, and no shelter.
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Woo!
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I need to survive out here for the next three days until rescue comes.
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A tropical storm is rolling in off the coast now.
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There's no time to waste.
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Yes!
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I've been failing everything that I trained to do.
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Yeah, Lexi, what's that?
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Oh, I don't know.
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What do you mean?
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Are you smuggling an iced latte onto...
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I mean, we're like on the way, so I don't think it counts.
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I don't think it counts.
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A few months back, I attempted to survive alone for the very first time in the Amazon rainforest,
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and that challenge pushed my limits further than anything I've ever done before.
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Ah, it really hurts.
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I'm okay.
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But this time, everything is going to be different.
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Now I only have five days to learn everything I'm going to need to know to survive out here.
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well i guess there's no turning back now from uh this decision what am i doing with my life
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there's nothing here one day at a time i'm gonna focus on setting up camp now
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i set up my hammock on a ridge overlooking the ocean in hopes
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that the wind would protect me from these sand fleas.
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Next, it was time to learn my first real skill on the island, building a shelter.
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Being immersed in nature like this unlocks a kind of creativity I haven't felt since I was a little kid.
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Wow, that's so fun.
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That's so satisfying.
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I suddenly notice every detail, finding the perfect piece of driftwood for the structure, the healthiest palm leaves for shelter
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and using bark for rope it is now the end of day one
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and i gotta say we have made
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so much progress with base camp look at this thing behind me
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this is amazing learning how to build a strong structure with
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the resources around me feels like it's my
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only defense against the storms
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on the horizon
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first skill
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of the day today is making a fire
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and this is a little bit outside of my comfort zone
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because it's actually a bow drill fire
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which means we're not using any type of fire starter
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or flint I honestly have no idea how I'm going to be able to learn this, this quickly.
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Got it.
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Got something.
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I don't know.
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Keep going, keep going, keep going.
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I can't.
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You got it, you got it, you got it.
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Now pull it away, pull it away.
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Stop smoking.
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You almost had that.
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It's so hard.
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Arms are so tired.
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Trying to do this for like an hour.
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it's infuriating my arms are just like shaking at this point I don't have anything left
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so much harder than it looks challenge is uh failed at the moment
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but I'll be back out in survival how many of these should I be aiming to collect
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and drink a day eight to ten is about a half a gallon
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so minimum in this kind of heat with the amount of work
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you're doing like absolute minimum 10 maybe 15 to 20 ideally
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so if you're out for three four days you're looking at collecting maybe 60 coconuts
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so it's a big job it takes a lot
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and then you dehydrate collecting a lot of coconuts and
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so you have to get a couple more just to just to make up for that energy loss
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oh
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so first crushed coconut how many more to go probably gonna
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end up doing at least 75 of these by the end of the trip
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if i can manage to climb coconut trees to acquire them
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that looked really hard oh my god i'm not gonna lie
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this definitely feels like the scariest thing to attempt out here
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but there's only one way to find out if I'm going to be able to do it or not.
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That's exhausting!
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Wow!
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Feels like impossible.
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palm tree one lexi zero gonna have to work on
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that one the big thing to remember with this is
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that this is literally a gun
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this is going to put a hole in a human being just as much as a 22
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rifle or anything like that like it's going to put a little hole in you
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and this is going to flop up and it's going to hit up with me.
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Yeah!
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I can't believe I just caught my first fish with a spear.
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That was so much fun.
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I was feeling a little bit discouraged after the fire
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and i did not want to come home empty -handed but it looks like we got some fresh fish for dinner tonight
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It's coming apart pretty easy yeah actually it's perfectly cooked wow a little fishy but it's food
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I'm about halfway through my training now and to be honest with you I'm not feeling very prepared.
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I don't know how I'm gonna be physically strong enough to build a shelter, make a fire, catch fish,
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all while having had collected enough coconuts to be able to sustain myself for water before extreme dehydration.
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It's just feeling like the point in the challenge where I'm feeling a bit desperate
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and I honestly have no idea how this is going to work out.
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I only have a little bit longer to learn all these skills before I'm out completely on my own.
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This is considered the most poisonous tree on the planet.
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The fruit is also known as the death apple
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but this little apple would be enough to kill a few people apparently
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it tastes really good for about the first 30 seconds
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and then it will just absolutely start burning your throat
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and this will kill you kill you
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so definitely number one thing to know out here
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we definitely have some black tip sharks out here we've got stingrays
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that if you step on them they can definitely inject you with a poison
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that really really hurts
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there's the banded sea snake is one of the most deadly snakes in the entire world there's crocodiles occasionally.
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And then there's another one we've run into called the Brazilian wandering spider, which if that bites you,
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you're going to be in a lot of pain for probably a solid three days and probably need to get evac'd.
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And then there's what's known as a stonefish.
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One touch from the stonefish
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and it feels like you've injected the hottest hot sauce underneath your skin and you're going to get a lot of pain.
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So with all those things aside, all of the poisonous animals and things you got to look after,
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really it's just having a good head on your shoulders.
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It's always the unexpected out here.
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We are just getting up to the wet season
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when we are having some really good lightning storms and
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so we're taking every precaution to make sure that during the lightning storms we're in a safe place.
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Every survival expert in the world is like an expert in their own backyard.
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They know it so well.
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Then they get lost on a deserted island.
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When you don't know the names of everything, how do you figure out what's good for what?
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Every resource on this island seems to have purpose if you know what you're looking for.
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Palm leaves can be woven into protection from the sun.
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So much you can do with a palm tree.
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Never ceases to amaze me.
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Gourds can be carved into cups which help for boiling water.
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And even dried bark can be transformed into a useful tool.
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Now we have rope.
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Everything that I'm learning on this island is possible because someone else learned it before me.
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How to build a shelter, how to hunt, how to make fire.
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These are the kind of skills that humans spent thousands of years developing, refining, and passing down.
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Now let's go see if we can put some of this knowledge to the test.
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The more time I spend out here, the more I realize that survival isn't about fighting the environment.
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It's about learning how to work with it.
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Last day of training.
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Tomorrow, the real show begins.
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This is fire starting attempt number two.
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I feel like I got enough rest over the past day to try it again, but this is not easy.
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I am seeing smoke from out of here.
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I think I'm doing it!
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Oh my god.
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It's so hard.
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There's black smoke.
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Oh wait, I think I got it.
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Oh, yeah, you got it.
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I got it.
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Oh my god.
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Yeah, get out of here.
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Fire!
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Fire!
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One step closer to being able to survive alone on this island.
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Wow.
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Look at it!
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I just started pouring rain.
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All of the rain is dripping directly from my tarp into my hammock.
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So I'm getting absolutely soaked.
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This is brutal.
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Tomorrow morning is survival
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all right we've had wind rain we have a forest fire
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and now we've got lightning this is definitely the most hectic conditions i've ever let survivalists go into isolation on
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and so I've got my reservations about doing this right now
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but hopefully they're all doing really well out there." Whether I felt ready or not,
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the time had finally come to answer a question that every human asks themselves at some point in their lives.
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If I were stranded alone on a deserted island.
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Could I survive?
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I'm stranded on a deserted island, completely alone, with no food, no water, and no shelter.
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need to survive out here for the next three days before rescue comes and
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there's no time to waste
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I need to get a shelter built to get out of this rain immediately I thought
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that right about now I'd be focusing on water but
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because it's been raining so much I've used one of the bottles
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that I found the trash on the beach to start collecting some of the rainwater
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so I should be good for water at least for tonight and my number one priority now is fire.
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I was able to collect some of this dry coconut husk and some of this dry bamboo.
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And we're going to use my flint stick to see if we can get some fire going.
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Whoo!
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Oh, wait.
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You guys see an ember?
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Oh!
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Oh my gosh, yes.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Okay, it's okay.
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Come on, little buddy.
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Keep going.
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A great success!
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There's a literal swarm of bugs right now.
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It's taken a couple hours to get camp situated.
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I think the bugs thankfully don't like the smoke.
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I'm very very grateful for this fire right now but now
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that I have camp a bit organized let me show you what I've brought with me.
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This is all of the gear that I have.
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We can start over here.
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Camera case.
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We've got a spare battery charging camera batteries, microphone, spare batteries for the phone,
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phone for filming, got a walkie -talkie that's used for emergencies, tripods.
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Then for clothing I've got a pair of pants, an extra pair of socks, a long sleeve, and a rain jacket.
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I've got a few just essential first aid items.
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I have headlamp, some flip -flops, these I have a machete, a smaller knife, and a saw.
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Here I have the fire starter.
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This is my luxury item for the trip.
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This is the mosquito net to try to combat all of the bugs since it's the rainy season here now
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and as you can see there is a swarm of bugs.
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I blanket for sleeping.
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This is fun.
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I've brought my dive kit and a spear gun for fishing.
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I've already found some useful stuff on the beach.
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This fishing line, I filled up this trash bottle with some rainwater that I've collected,
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so I'm good for water for tonight.
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And a trash bag that can use for my knees.
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The fire over here is keeping this gigantic swarm of bugs at bay.
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I don't know how well you can see this on the camera, but that is a massive swarm of bugs.
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I'm very, very grateful for the mosquito net.
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I'm going to set that up now.
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These bugs are insane.
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They keep going down my shirt.
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It's horrible.
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Cool.
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Okay, um, I need another hole to put this up.
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Nice.
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The day honestly just flew by.
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I'm feeling a bit discouraged about how much I got done.
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I didn't have enough time to go fishing or to collect any coconuts.
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Thankfully I did get this rainwater.
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Also ran out of time to make an elevated bed so I'm basically just going to be sleeping in the sand.
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Thankfully I did find that garbage bag
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that I'll be able to use as a little bit of a divider between this soaking wet sand
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and the sand fleas and my skin.
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When I was arriving here, I have never seen rain that hard before in my entire life.
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It was almost like anxiety inducing because there's so many things
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that I wanted to do as soon as I arrive into this.
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situation I need to make shelter I need to clear ground I need to do this I need to do that
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and just being absolutely paralyzed by a torrential downpour was um
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not what I envisioned for my tropical beach uh survival challenge
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but hey that's nature for you you really never know what you're gonna get.
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It's day two.
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I slept all right, all things considered, but at around three o 'clock in the morning,
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I felt this big thing crawling up my thigh.
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I almost lost it, but it was a giant Halloween moon crab, but it scared me so bad,
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and the sun is now peeking through the clouds, and it is so hot.
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I can immediately feel the dehydration in my brain, so the first thing I need to do this morning is get some coconuts
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because dehydration is the biggest risk out here for me right now I'm just
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so dehydrated this one has a little bit of a sharper edge wow
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that's exhausting also just getting eaten alive by sand fleas.
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Yes!
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Let's go!
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Woo!
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Oh, that was so hard.
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Oh, this guy is so full of water.
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First coconut of the day.
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Will not be my last because I need to stay hydrated, but whoo, I'm excited.
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I can see the nut just starting to peek out now.
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Getting close.
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Oh yes, look at that.
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Amazing.
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Found a nice shady spot to drink my first coconut of the day.
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Wow that is so full of water.
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Absolutely incredible.
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I'm gonna need a lot more of those and technically
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if I just got enough coconut water to drink
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and then also ate the meat which is very calorie dense I wouldn't starve out here.
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I wouldn't have enough to survive
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but I also want to get my fire going today
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because I want to go foraging for some snails and limpets
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and there's no point in doing that unless I have a fire to cook food with.
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I also want to go spear fishing
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but my shelter also really needs a lot of improvements especially
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if it could potentially rain again tonight
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so there is a lot to do under the scorching sun but for now it's time to enjoy this coconut.
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Wow oh oh
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yeah wow this is what dreams are made
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managed to carve out this coconut meat in one big piece
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so cool there's a lot of nutrition
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and calories in here breakfast of champions right here i bet i'm gonna get
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so sick of the taste of coconut meat by the end of this but wow life -giving
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just opened up my second coconut of the day because
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it is hot out here and i think i'm a little bit more dehydrated than i thought i was
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I got really lucky with those first coconuts
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and I just need to go forage because I have a feeling there's a lot of them that fell during the storm.
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Thank you.
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Let's go.
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it is the middle of the day now
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and the heat has really turned up
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I've gone to jump in the ocean a couple of times I even tried changing into shorts
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but I was just immediately destroyed by all of the bugs.
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So back to the pants.
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Sweating, sweating away.
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I am already getting a headache from the heat and the lack of a really, really good amount of water.
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So I feel like I can't even like speak straight right now.
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I'm feeling pretty confident with the number of coconuts that I was able to collect today.
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They are so full of water.
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And I really need it because the heat of the day has fully set in now.
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And now that I'm good on coconuts for a bit, at least until tomorrow, I want to turn my attention to my shelter.
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It felt like because I arrived here in such a downpour, I didn't have much time to really think about my shelter.
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I just threw up the tarp to get out of the rain as fast as possible
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so now I want to kind of clear everything over to
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the side get an idea of what I'm really working with here
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and attempt to build a little bit more of a sustainable structure in this space
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I wove this little hat out of palm leaves
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it's definitely helping a lot for sun protection
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you need all the help you can get I feel like my shoulders are already starting to peel
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so i'm pretty happy
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with how this initial structure is turning out
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but i need some more support going this way i think i mean i guess this way
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but ideally this way to support the like the palm leaves
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so they have something to lay on rather than just hanging in
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i need to find something that's long enough like this would work but
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also needs to get hooked on something this one worked out super well that is long enough
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Now I actually went over and stripped some sea hibiscus which works really great as rope.
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So I can maybe tie these in here to secure them a little bit more.
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Hopefully it doesn't come falling on my head in the middle of the night.
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It's not going anywhere.
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Looks like there could be another rain cloud coming in.
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Pretty good.
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Now I just gotta keep layering them all in here until it gets nice and thick.
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it looks and feels so funny to be swimming completely clothed even with my shoes on
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but let me tell you when it is this hot out this is the only way to truly regulate my temperature
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and also because it's so hot it takes less than an hour to basically completely dry.
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My shoes are also really well made so they clear all of the water out of them quite quickly and
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this has definitely been worth it.
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I just finished my shelter thankfully because it just started pouring rain right now.
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The tide is also really high so thankfully the shelter seems like it's
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Holding up pretty good, at least for right now.
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Crazy timing.
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I just got hit by a massive wave of discouragement.
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it just feels like I haven't been able to do like anything.
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I was just trying to get my fire started again
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and it completely went out and now there's this wind that I wasn't expecting.
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I got too comfortable for some reason.
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I even built my shelter facing the wind because I thought
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that I would be cooler at night because I was so hot last night.
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I didn't pay attention to the tide
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because I was going to go out to collect limpets and snails to eat for dinner over my fire tonight.
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And now the ocean has totally come in.
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The beach has disappeared.
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It's too rocky and dark for me to go spearfishing right now.
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It just feels like I've been failing at everything that I trained to do.
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I always saw these like survival shows growing up and thought
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that it was like the coolest thing ever and I still think that.
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It's just so much harder than you think it is watching it on a screen and seeing someone like
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Bear Grylls kill it.
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Like it's so much harder and so much more uncomfortable than you would think.
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I'm also just really lonely.
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I hate being alone like this.
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It's so quiet and your thoughts are just so loud.
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I'm not a survivalist at all.
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I'm like feeling extremely not qualified to be here right
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These sand fleas are just eating me alive.
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I'm just feeling really negative right now.
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I'm not sure how to get out of it. so well
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this evening took a very unexpected turn this is a very new thought
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so I'm going to try to explain it
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but it feels like I just had such a special almost spiritual experience here
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I was feeling really frustrated earlier it felt like nothing was going the way
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that I wanted it to and I felt very out of control
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and I decided okay that's it I need a break
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I'm not gonna film I'm gonna go walking along the water and
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I took some time to honestly just be with God
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and pray and try to just reflect on this experience as a whole rather than the granular frustrations that I was experiencing.
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And honestly, through like clearing my mind,
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I started noticing all the little details specifically I saw
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this shell on the beach the colors kind of looked like a sunset
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and it reminded me of home
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and then I do get to go home somewhat soon
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and I just felt flooded with this like really incredible sense of gratitude after taking a solid moment to myself
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I came back up I finished setting up the mosquito net
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and then I decided hey
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I got nothing else going on I might as well just play around with the flint stick
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and it felt like it really gave me this sense of ease like taking a moment for myself
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and I was just playing around with it oh
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there's a couple more sparks
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there's a couple sparks here wait a second these sparks are actually kind of starting to catch
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and then the momentum just started building
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and i started feeling my excitement coming back
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and voila it turned into this big beautiful fire which i was so grumpy
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and i was very much not expecting to have a fire tonight
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i still don't have anything to cook on it i don't
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have any fish limpets snails nothing definitely feeling hungry hunger pains are starting to set in.
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I do have coconut though.
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I just drank this one which felt so good after getting this fire started
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and it honestly all just reminded me that I have everything that I need in this moment.
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I might not be as comfortable as I would like but I genuinely do have everything that I need over here.
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I have a roof over my head.
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I have something to drink.
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I have something to eat.
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I have a warm fire and i have a place to lay my head
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and that's all you really need in life like we technically don't need more than this
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which is right here everything else is a bonus basically is my takeaway
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and i'm feeling really grateful for that
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and i'm feeling really grateful for you actually who are watching this video right now it's
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because of you that i get to come out here
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and do these kind of experiences and make these videos for you to watch.
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So I just want to say that I'm very grateful.
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And I also recently started a new tradition on the channel where for every YouTube video,
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I do a custom giveaway with my newsletter of a bundle of mementos and tokens from each episode.
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And I think this shell is the perfect base for this episode's giveaway way.
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Good morning.
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It is day three.
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I slept terribly last night because there are
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so many crabs circling around my tent and just hearing them walking around is
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so unsettling when you're out here in the dark.
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I also heard a boat engine get pretty close to my beach
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but they didn't have their lights on which
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when you don't know who they are or what their intentions are is pretty scary when you're out here by yourself.
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I'm feeling some really intense hunger pains this morning but even more
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so than that just the dehydration i woke up with this like shaky feeling in my hands
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which is making me like really nervous for trying to use the machete at all
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and trying to open more coconuts i don't think
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i i hit the mark at all with how much water i was supposed to be drinking yesterday
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and now i'm really feeling the uh repercussions of that
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but today's agenda is to try to catch a fish at least some limpets
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and snails because it would be really nice to eat something that's not just coconut
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but just really feeling it a lot right now with the dehydration so time to get after it
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So, I just wandered down to a different beach and basically just hit the jackpot.
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I found a hog's plum tree, which gives off all of these yellow fruits.
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And this feels so amazing because I think it's going to go so well with my fish tonight.
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But worst case scenario, even if I don't catch a fish, this is going to be some much needed variety from the coconuts.
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By the way, everything that I've learned about how to survive on this island was taught by Desert Island Survival.
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Their team hosts experiences like this around the world,
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giving even the least qualified people like myself the chance to push their limits and learn real world survival skills.
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If you've ever wanted to try something like this for yourself, check out their link in my description.
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It's absolutely blisteringly hot out here
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and I want to try to go fishing on this side of the island before the tide comes back up.
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I just can't get this knot out of my gun.
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It's like crazy making.
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Dehydration brain is definitely setting in.
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This is only the third time I've ever gone spearfishing
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and all of that has been on this trip so we'll see how it goes.
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I'm very motivated because I'm very hungry, so we'll see.
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Woo!
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Look at this.
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We're eating dinner tonight.
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Oh my god. That was exhausting.
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I found a treasure trove of snails.
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we are eating so well tonight i've got my damselfish i've got some snails
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or escargot if you will then i have some of this hog plums and two coconuts to wash it down
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after a nice little ocean dip it's now time for my final challenge
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which is going to be getting this fire started again.
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No matter how hard I've been trying, the fire just keeps going out completely every night,
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and it was not very easy to get it going again last night,
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but I've got extra motivation now that I have something to cook with it, so I'll get this started.
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A nice dry bamboo base, splintery bamboo.
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I'm also going to be mainly using this palm tree bark because all of my coconut husks are too wet.
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Wow!
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This stuff lit so fast I didn't even have time to record it wow okay yay we're getting a fire going
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whoo okay this fire going crazy
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stay with me fire fire wow
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that was the fastest fire i've ever started
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i literally didn't even have time to get the camera going one attempt my lucky fire Woo!
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Dinner is served.
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So, I'm not really a fish person, so I might have overcooked everything a bit, which is fine.
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I don't want to risk anything, but this is looking pretty good.
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Got a little filet.
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got the escargot as well.
468
Ooh la la, look at that.
469
I'm not gonna lie, I really don't like fish at all.
470
This one actually isn't that bad, it's just like a classic white fish.
471
And honestly, with how hungry I am, I would pretty much eat anything at this point.
472
A little sandy, a little salty.
473
It's day four and rescue is officially on the way thank goodness
474
because I am not feeling well
475
I'm fully feeling the dehydration at full force my my mind is moving slowly my body's moving slowly
476
I'm feeling shaky a little bit of shortness of breath
477
it's hard for me to even turn on this camera right now
478
but I want to capture this moment because this is
479
probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my entire life it's
480
so wild to me
481
that without food you can forage for it without a shelter you can build one
482
but water without it you die and it's
483
so difficult to obtain enough water in a situation like this to actually survive there's
484
so many things that we take for granted every single day
485
if you were deserted on an island in the middle of the ocean like this,
486
you would just be dreaming and praying for the things that you have in your own house right now, a roof above your head,
487
food on your table, and water coming out of your tap.
488
I feel such a deep level of griminess in literally every inch of my body,
489
and I am ready to be clean and well -fed and hydrated but until then i gotta tear my shelter down
490
i'm gonna sit right here on the beach and wait for that boat to come
491
Rescue is finally in sight.
492
I've missed you guys.
493
I was worried you were going to forget about me.
494
You look good, not too beat up.
495
Wow.
496
I need water immediately.
497
I honestly can't believe that I'm leaving this place.
498
It's been a total of nine days since we've been out on these islands.
499
And I'm exhausted.
500
And I'm really ready to go home.
501
But first, I want something to drink.
502
This first cold beverage in nine days.
503
Oh my gosh, you have no idea how good this tastes.
504
I'm gonna go sleep for a week.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I Survived Alone on a Deserted Island for 3 Days”. This video has 504 sentences and 5356 words to shadow. The speech runs for 48:44. The speaker talks at a steady 110 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| coconut noun | /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ | A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed. |
| shelter noun | /ˈʃɛltə/ | A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave). |
| survival noun | /sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/ | The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life. |
| collect verb | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | To gather together; amass. |
| bug noun | /bʌɡ/ | An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). |
| palm noun | /pɑm/ | The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand or other primate hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers. |
| sand noun | /sænd/ | Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in… |
| desert noun | /ˈdɛz.ɚt/ | A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland. |
| snail noun | /sneɪl/ | Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell. |
| hungry adjective | /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ | Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. |
| grateful adjective | /ˈɡɹeɪtf(ə)l/ | Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful. |
| thankfully adverb | In a thankful manner; giving thanks. | |
| rescue verb | /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ | To save from any violence, danger or evil. |
| exhaust verb | /ɪɡˈzɔst/ | To draw or let out wholly; to drain completely. |
| strand noun | /ˈstɹænd/ | Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| check out verb | To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.). | |
| beat up verb | To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. | |
| come apart verb | To break, separate. | |
| come back verb | To return to a place. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I've been failing everything that I trained to do.
- What do you mean?
- I don't think it counts.
- I think I'm doing it!
- You guys see an ember?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been failing · it's been raining · I've been trying |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've ever done · haven't felt · have made |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | Being immersed · is considered · is also known |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | meat which is · bit, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 164 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, I've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, thick /θɪk/, throat /ˈθɹoʊt/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shelter /ˈʃɛltə/, trash /tɹæʃ/, shell /ʃɛl/, luxury /ˈlʌk.ʃə.ɹi/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: unexpected /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like coconut, shelter, survival.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.