Chapter 66: Survival on a Desert Island 2
As the saying goes, the house leak coincides with overnight rain.
Wang Yong and Li Ran called the island the Leaf Island, because the island has a shallow bay shaped like fallen leaves, the water depth is 25 meters at high tide in the evening, and the water depth is only 4 meters at low tide, and the 800 pirate ship is basically stranded.
It's also good that ships can be repaired during the day.
Unfortunately, all the electronic communication equipment on the submarine on Fallen Leaf Island is out of order, which is a bit strange!
What is the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle inverted, black holes, electromagnetic oscillations, time eddies, extraterrestrial visitors, geocentric magnetic influences?
Anyway, what comes is safe.
Li Xiaoyu, Chen Mengling, and Li Jian were sent out to find water sources and shelters after getting off the submarine.
How to survive on a desert island?
Surviving in the wild is very difficult, you will face many dangers, and one mistake can be fatal. In addition, the desert island environment is dry and isolated, and your situation will be very difficult. But it's not entirely hopeless. Here's how to get enough water and food, and have a place to stay until help arrives.
Of course, the current 80 people's daily necessities can be used for at least 25 days.
Find food and water
Look for fresh water. If there is no fresh water, people can last up to three to five days. Head inland to see if there are any streams or waterfalls on the island that can be used as new sources of water. If the island is barren and inhospitable with nothing, you'll have to build your own solar-powered evaporator to distill rainwater into drinking water.
Li Xiaoyu and the others have already discovered Tanshui hot springs and streams, and they need to build a water storage tank.
Solar evaporators use the sun to heat rainwater, which is condensed to produce fresh water. Dig a hole in the ground and place a container at the bottom. Spread wet leaves around the hole, then cover the hole with a piece of plastic dew and put a heavy object in the middle to press it. The distilled water obtained by evaporation and condensation flows into the container, and you have fresh water to drink. When it rains, remember to collect fresh water in a container to make sure you always have plenty of water to drink. Water must be boiled before drinking.
Check for water under leaves or cacti, inside caves, hollow trees, or potholes on the shore.
You can also hydrate with coconut, cactus, or other plants and fruits.
Fill rainwater in buckets, plastic bottles, boxes, or trash cans.
Heating the water to more than 85 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes can kill all the germs in the water.
Severe dehydration can cause low blood pressure, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, confusion, or loss of consciousness.
Do not drink seawater to quench your thirst, otherwise it will cause dehydration.
This knowledge needs to be learned by everyone.
Collect plants from deciduous islands for food. Although the things on board can last for 3 to 4 weeks, they must be economical in the long run. Also eat fruits and vegetables that are confirmed to be non-toxic, such as coconuts, bananas and seaweed. Don't eat unfamiliar berries that can be poisonous.
An unbalanced diet can trigger scurvy. This serious condition is caused by a lack of vitamin C, with symptoms including exhaustion, anemia, and infection. Eating fresh citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges can prevent scurvy, although these fruits are relatively rare.
Catch fish, insects, and small animals for food. The protein and nutrients of meat and fish can give you energy. Shellfish, clams, oysters, crabs, mussels and fish may be found in the shallow waters on or around Deciduous Islands.
Stick sharpened to catch small reptiles, fish or birds on the island.
If you can't catch a large animal, look for slower-moving insects that you can eat, such as beetles, spiders, and centipedes.
Shellfish must be cooked before eating to avoid getting sick from contracting bacteria.
If you really don't have a way to make a temporary fishing rod, sharpen a long branch or stick and use it as a harpoon to catch fish.
Check to see if the food you're going to eat is poisonous. If you find a fruit on the island that you have never eaten, first check to see if it is poisonous.
Use the pulp to apply to sensitive skin areas, such as the wrists. Wait 45 minutes. If there are no adverse reactions to the skin, apply a little pulp to the lips.
If a rash appears, a stinging sensation is felt, or there is a burning sensation, then it is most likely poisonous. Don't eat too much food you don't recognize. Try to eat a little at first, observe for an hour or two to make sure you are not sick, and then eat the rest.
Be aware that fruits that smell like peaches or almonds can be poisonous.
Allocate all resources appropriately. Even if resources are abundant, don't waste anything. Store excess food and water and strictly adhere to daily rations. The average person needs about 950 ml of water per day, as well as 200 to 1,500 calories. Allocate resources in the right amount as much as possible, without causing dehydration or malnutrition.
Survive on the island
Collect any tools or supplies that still work. Search for something useful in a pirate ship or submarine. Sheets, bedding or cloth can be used as ropes, and other things can be transformed into shoes, bedding, or shelter. Don't forget to find a sharp tool to cut things.
Search for other useful things, such as radios, lighting fixtures, submarines, lifebuoys or life jackets, cell phones, buckets of water, first aid kits, or other working electronic devices.
Find a suitable place to pitch your tent. It is better to build inland, not on the shore, otherwise shelters and supplies will be destroyed or washed away by the tide at high tide. It's best to find woodland close to a fresh water source.
The overhanging foliage provides shade during the day and helps keep you cool. Trees are also great natural barriers, slowing down the effects of wind, sand, sun, and other elements of the natural environment.
Don't spend time in the sun. Heat stroke or overheating can cause you to hallucinate, pass out, and even die.
These things must be paid attention to by Wang Yong
If you find a plastic tarpaulin or cloth, you can also build a desert shed. Insert 4 wooden stakes into the sand to form a square. Lay the tarpaulin on the stake and secure it, then spread a second layer of tarpaulin on top. Leave a distance of about 5 cm between the two tarpaulins. You can tie a rope to a stake and tie the other end of the rope to a wood, tree or stone, and bury the stake in the soil to fix it.
You can also build other types of shelters out of wood and leaves. Regardless of the type of shelter, the most important thing is to have shade.
Plastic tarpaulin is more effective in sheltering from wind and rain.
Firing. Fire is important to keep you warm at night and to cook fish or animals you catch. If you salvage matches or lighters, wait for them to dry and be ready to use. If you don't have any tools to make a fire, you may have to drill wood to make a fire. A stick is sharpened and rubbed with a quick turn in a pile of igniters.
Treat the wound immediately. Staying alone on an island without medical care can be more dangerous than usual for injuries and illnesses. Injuries should be treated immediately, cleaned with clean fresh water, and bandaged. Don't push too hard, as fractures can be fatal.
The water used to clean the wound should be boiled first.
Keep your mind active and hopeful. Isolation can make your sleep irregular, alter your brain's logical and verbal reasoning abilities, and lose your sense of time.
Build the tools you need to escape from the island near your habitat, or use your brain to think of other ways to escape. Use your creativity when there's nothing to do and create works of art out of what you salvage. If you have people around you, you may want to keep in touch with them and communicate with them as much as possible.
Escape from a desert island
This is where outside help comes in. At night, three piles of flames are arranged in a triangle. This is an internationally accepted distress signal. If a nearby plane or boat sees it, the rescue team should be contacted.
If you have salvaged any lights, you can use them to draw attention when you see a boat nearby.
Another distress signal is to collect the stones from the island and put the word SOS on the beach.
Try to communicate with the outside world by radio. If you manage to recover a working radio, you may be able to contact a rescue team to rescue you. As soon as you successfully contact someone, you can tell them your coordinates and ask them to help you contact the rescue team.
Some radio transceivers have tracking hardware called an Emergency Radio Position Indicator (EPIRB) that confirms your position at sea.
Of course, these are not needed.
Build your own raft and leave the desert island. This should be a last resort, and there is really no way to do it, because you will encounter many problems at sea, including dehydration, hunger, or various threats to the natural environment. You can repair the raft you have salvaged and use it, or you can build one out of what you have found or out of wood from a desert island.
The last one refers to a single person surviving on the outlying islands.
Three days later, 80 people had set up a rudimentary nearly 15 treehouse shelters on Deciduous Island.
Long wooden poles, sticks, and branches are erected between the large trees, and finally the leaves are covered and fixed with vines.
In the house, a tarpaulin was pulled up, and a layer of branches and grass was spread on the ground, and a tarpaulin was covered.
Outside the floor, there are three large pavilion-style semi-bright kitchens.
The first meal of eating potatoes and his beef stew was only to take care of foreigners, after all, it was not easy to talk about anyone for three days and three nights from the wind and rain!
I left some potatoes, onions, peppers, and corn seeds, and planted them in a few days.
Yes, in the long run, food is the most important thing.
"There are fish, seaweed, flamingos, pheasants and a herd of goats on this island. In terms of eating, I found a coconut grove and a lot of mushrooms. There are mountain springs, but it's not really a desert island. ”
Li Xiaoyu reported on the investigation, and in comparison, it was much better than going to Isabella.