Amazing Island Survival Stories
Jun 02, 2021You won't believe what these people did to survive on a desert
island
. Let's talk about that. ♪ (musical theme) ♪ - Good morning mythical. - Sometimes when you're at a party or meeting, someone says, "Hey guys, what would you have if you were stranded on a desertisland
?" - That's a very good question for this - match. - I found you at this party, right? - Yes. - Now I'm the king of the party. - (laughs) - What do you say when someone asks that - question? - I tell him "Dude, think of a better question." - Actually? - I mean, come on, if you really want to talk to me, be honest, let's talk about something that - can really happen. - I mean a briefcase full of all the - things I will need. - But what is my answer? - Yes my wife. - Oh.And my wife. My wife is in... You know, she's my real partner. - briefcase. I take it back baby. - (clicking noise) My true companion. Okay, now, but the thing is, when you're at this party and people ask this question, you know what people have actually survived on desert islands and we're going to talk about some of the most
amazing
stories
we've ever known. heard - about the people who survived. - Do you think you're going to make a party talk? About these, these people lived it! - Yes, this is not a party. - (laughter) - We're talking about October 1704, Alexander Selkirk.He is on the crew of a ship called Cinque Ports, Cinque Ports. -Well, to begin with he was condemned. -Yes.-Did she sink? - Yes, well that's what ends up happening. He ends up stopping first at the Juan Fernández Archipelago, western Chile. -And then Selkirk says "you know what, this... Thanks for the geography lesson. The ship is in bad shape and I..." he had a feeling she was going to sink. -And she has a sunk name. And he said: "I'm not going to continue with you, leave me here on this island." - He chose the lesser of two evils, huh? - Then the captain said "okay." and he left him on the shore with some clothes, a musket, some tools, a Bible, and tobacco. - MMM. -So the first thing he did was stay on the shore like you do when you get stranded. - Like a vacation. - Like in Lost.
The time at the beach - Correct. - first on the right? - Waiting for people to pass by. - That crashed plane is really ruining - the view, but-- - But then the sea lions started mating. - Oh... What? - And you know what happens when sea lions start mating. - They are big and bad. - A... Action? - and they were in heat. It was ugly and... Oooooh. He was disgusting and I guess they thought he was a sea lion. - No. They were aggressive. - Did it look like a sea lion? They took him inland.
He took off his sea lion suit (laughs) and went into the jungle where things got better. And this is where it gets
amazing
! He found wild goats... They are wild goats. He hunted them, ate them and used their skin for clothing. So he's walking around, - I-- - goatskin clothes, eating goats! Question: How difficult is it to hunt a goat? - Oh really? - Have you ever killed a goat? - I mean... We'll just be... - Have you ever killed a goat? - No, but they're just standing there, Rhett. - These are savages. They are running. - They won't accept it. - They were like (makes a goat sound). - They're going to take it like a goat. -Ooh.He chased a goat off a cliff...he fell off a cliff-After that? - with the goat. Because it was like a cliff in the jungle. He didn't see it coming and survived because he (in unison) landed on the goat. - No! - I'm not making this up people! But he was. He invented it. - That's the key. -And he didn't limit himself to wild goats. There is no one there to corroborate any of this. - He bef-- well, that's true. He-He made friends with wild cats and trained them-(laughs) to tame them, to defend himself from the rats that bothered him in his little cabin that he built himself at night. - Alexander. (clicking noise) - And twice the Spanish explorers came to rescue him, he said (Scottish accent) "No, I won't go with you." Because he was Scottish and he didn't want to go with the Spanish because he thought they would kill him and he waited.
He was there for 4 years and 4 months and finally got picked up by another ship and became a bit famous and is the supposed inspiration for what? Robinson Crusoe. You heard it here, Robinson Crusoe was a Scottish guy who dressed like a goat and was afraid of mating with sea lions. (hitting) Learn something new every day. - What do you have? - Someone at the door, can you let that person in? - (laughs) What do you have there? - I have Tom Neale. - Uh oh. - Now, my last name is Neal. - It's. - This one has an E at the end, so there's - Eee. no relationship, except maybe in the past there was some relationship. - This guy is in New Zealand. - Maybe maybe.
The interesting thing is that I think I can see you being this guy more than I can. For a couple of touchpoints, okay? - Contact points. See if you can catch these. One day he decided: this is what's interesting about him. He actually wanted to be stranded on a desert island. - Yes, I do. -He made the decision to do it so he could-Yes, I understand. on a boat passing by some islands and then "hey, leave me there." - Just like your last guy. - Yes. So they left him on this desert island. Spoiler alert, he's not a des...he doesn't have dessert.
I just want to be clear for the rest of the video. - Don't get your hopes up, there aren't any. - Some probably do. - dessert on any of these islands. - some of them are probably covered in - whipped cream. -This was in 1952, he was off the Cook Islands, a desert island off Suwarrow. - Cook Islands. He quickly transformed a handkerchief into a thong. And then from there he says "now what do I do?" - I have done. -He had with him two cats, some water tanks, a hut and some books. When you know you're going to be stranded, is that all you bring? - Yes, I should have brought some goats.
I mean, this guy gets tough! There were remnants of World War II on the island and some wild pigs and chickens running around. - Easy. -He killed the pigs instantly because they were a nuisance. I'm sure he ate them. He spent 6 months building a dock and took 1 day off to celebrate and after that day a storm hit and completely destroyed the entire dock. - Totally Rhett, right? - Did you just spray yourself completely? - spit everything in my face. - Sorry, do you want to wear my purple? - I hope I don't have an outbreak or anything. - An outbreak of what? - (both laughing) - I'm not going there.
Very good, I'm sorry. Can we just take a break? I didn't spit on you intentionally, but I'm glad I did. - You can apologize, it's okay, thank you. - I'm just kidding. You can survive on saliva, maybe he did. He broke his back in 1954 throwing an anchor over the ship's side. I also did the same. -And he was semi-paralyzed for 4 days-Are you laughing at this guy? - Paralyzed on a desert island? - It's like what happened to you. The people on a yacht came, found him and took him... Back to shore. He had to be cured, and in those four years that he was there he got married, had two children, but in the spring of 1960 he left and returned to the island. - And then... - This guy couldn't get enough.
And then pearl divers began to arrive. He wasn't alone, so he left, but then he wrote a book, took the money from the book and came back a third time and stayed there until 1977, when he had some kind of stomach cancer. - Oh, that... Well. The latter also has a horrible ending. I'm going to go ahead and prepare you. This is Juana María. She is known as a reclusive woman from the island of San Nicolás. - Well. The Channel Islands; Some islands just off the coast of California here. You have Catalina. This is one of these.
It is no longer inhabited. - Oh really? - But in the 19th century, there was a tribe of Native Americans... Their tribe was the Nickelinos who were there and the Russian otter hunters. Always causing trouble, those Russian otter hunters show up and kill everyone in their tribe except for, like, 20 people. - Oh no. - It's a bad day. The Spanish missionaries heard about this and said, "We are going to go rescue the remaining Native Americans and bring them to the mission." Well, they had some weather problems. They had to end up leaving a little earlier. She did not get on the boat and was left alone.
She lived alone on the island. She was abandoned because she was the only one there, but she was living in the place where she had grown up, so she did... she kissed. She-she lived there for 18 years. - That is very sad. In 1853, another otter hunter, not one who kills, but just a guy named George Nidever, finds her and she lives in a hut made of whale bones, surviving on seal blubber which she turns into dried meat. Well, seal jerky. - Did you make a cabin with whale bones? - I would have liked to see how that turned out, but he ends up taking her to this - Santa Barbara mission. - I can't get them on RAI.
She has lived on this island for 18 years. He takes her to the Santa Barbara mission, she is fascinated by all this new culture, all this new food, all these new things that she has never seen. She dies 7 weeks later - Oh man. - of dysentery. Nidever says, "His fondness for green corn, vegetables and fresh fruit after years of consuming such nutrient-dense foods...Few nutrient-dense foods caused the serious and ultimately fatal illness." She then thought that vegetables killed her. So kids, now you can tell your parents every time they ask you to eat vegetables: Oh. - Have you heard about the lonely woman on the island of San Nicolás, mom?
Ah, well, but the truth is that she was giving dysentery to the vegetables. - Oh, that's a big mistake. - I mean that's the deciding factor. - (team laughs) - We would like to thank our sponsor godaddy.com (Rhett). Visit godaddy.com and enter the code “GMM” to get a domain for $1.99, link in description. Don't let anyone steal your awesome website domain idea. I sneezed in your face when he was talking about survivors and I'm sorry. Dot com - not in use yet, available - Yes. - Godaddy.com code "GMM". - Thanks for liking and commenting.
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story. The Robertson family sailing around the world, you won't believe what they did to survive. Unisong about hot dogs. Well, in unison, this is where we sing in unison about... (both singing) Oh, I wish I had a hot dog, I can put some ketchup on it.Because honey, you know how much I love to taste!
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