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Originally Posted by Bobcat
I realy don't understand why you are harping on still about drinking sea water after reading one book!!
Just dont do it. The energy you use passing the salt "in sips" will use up more energy, hence you become dehydrated much faster...Salt is used to cure food as it sucks the moisture out of what you are curing.
PLEASE DONT LISTEN TO THIS PERSON> It will end in a faster death...
Better off thinking about fishing with whatever you have and eating the intestines then the flesh raw.
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You can actually take a sip of salt water now and then, and then, lacking fishing gear...you simply drink urine. The Chinese nautical explorers drank urine to fight sea borne disease based upon vitamin-mineral deficiencies. Vitamin C can be recycled via mid-stream urine ingesting (the first pee of the morning) and there are numerous cases where trapped earthquake victims drank nothing but urine for up to 18 days. The same goes with miners.
http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/tra...ne-therapy.asp
Buddy lived to 99 drinking his ****...seems he had no ill effects.
But hey, drinking urine all day would suck, but a Royal Marine sniper I used to know (even though the SAS book says not to) whom got caught in a tree for 3 days, started drinking his urine (to avoid any dehydration) as soon as he realized he was on his own for awhile.
The SAS survival manual also, may contain disinfo that they do not want the public to know.
Anyhow
SNIP
"Tales of valor, sorrow, survival and loss have threaded through conversations in the area. They talk of a Dujiangyan middle school that collapsed, killing 50 children. And of a man from outside of Mianyang who was buried under rubble for an entire week but survived by eating toilet paper and drinking his own urine. Another man tied his dead wife to his back with a rope and rode his scooter across Sichuan to find a respectable place to bury her."
END SNIP
http://www.latimes.com/news/bal-te.s...,2512115.story
SNIP
"Actually, coal is bitter and unsmooth but you can chew up pieces the size of a finger. In the mine, we picked up two discarded water bottles, and drank our urine. You can only take small sips, and when you've finished, you just want to cry."
(ME...they we already dehydrated so it was probably really salty, fresh urine is only mildly salty and after having fasted on it for three days once...it actually go less salty)
END SNIP
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asi...al_urine_diet/
So, there you go, I'd sip a wee bit of salt water now and then, and not allow myself to become dehydrated in the first place, live on urine, and catch killer whales with my talons! Probably a gallon per eyeball...