this sounds like the guys from dune - sorry for forgetting the name of the volk, but the ones who wear special suits that recycle your sweat and pee for water that keeps you hydrated.
Think of it as your body's thermometer experiencing an underflow error (in computing, this is where a value gets so low that it wraps around back to the highest possible value)
Nearly nobody knows this about leeches! I had my legs COVERED in them at a school camp 20ish years ago. Teachers poured salt on, and a few hours later I was being picked up by an ambulance, I was so sick. Blood infection. Don't fuck with parasites 🙃
I have two, both disaster survival myths. 1) In a hurricane, you are *NOT* safest under a highway overpass. If the overpass collapses, you're dead. The safest place to be is an underground shelter. 2) Don't open one window during a tornado. Open zero windows.
I was shown that you somewhat go around the fire and close in on it, if you directly blast the fire straight on you could accidentally send embers flying and something or someone else can catch fire. I'm glad you brought this up, it's not something most people know. But on fires in general, FIRE BLANKETS! Underrated and often a better solution to putting various types of fires out, especially in an enclosed space or if somebody is directly on fire.
@@Mizzybelle. Agreed with the fire blankets being way more useful. Or in certain cases kicking sand over a small fire is better than trying to use liquids(I live near a beach. Some people got drunk and accidentally lit a bush on fire. In the panic of trying to find any liquid to pour on it they used the alcohol that were drinking. I helped kick sand on it instead which fixed the problem. Using liquids can be a gamble for fire)
@@RHTQ1 Yeah. Extinguishers got a lot of force. So using it to directly shoot the fire is a good way to send stuff flying. And it can be hard to remember technique right in the moment. So the fire blanket is way better for if you have to worry about panic
For the first one, there's a rule of three: 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. Prioritise accordingly.
something that some people still seem to believe actually works: If you're stranded out at sea or somewhere with no water, _do not drink your own pee._ Urine is _extremely_ salty, which will pull the water you're trying to conserve out of your cells. Not to mention the amount of water your body will waste trying to get rid of all the excess salt. Urine is a waste product for a reason, it's the stuff our body doesn't need, mixed in with water to make it easier to pass. Yes, if it's filtered enough it can be drunk, but most people aren't exactly going to have the equipment needed to filter. Adding on to that, if you're stranded at sea, don't drink the seawater either. It'll have the exact same effect as drinking urine. If you're stranded somewhere without drinkable water, stay out of the sun as much as you can, do as little strenuous activity as possible, and do your best to find drinkable water. Rainwater is pretty much always a safe option if there's nothing else, but it's best to find water that's proven to be safe. If you get sick you're only going to lose more water when your body has to fight it off. If you have to choose between walking or running to find civilization, walk. Only run if you're sure you'll be able to get water at whichever place you're heading to, and even then it's still better to walk.
To go with the snow stuff a fear I unlocked is tree wells, pockets of air covered by snow under trees, If you fall in one and no one sees you will die. So if you're skiing or snow boarding stay away from the trees.
Yes, super scary too. I've been face down in powder (fluffy loose snow that's super fun to ski & snowboard through). When I pushed my arms down, there was nothing to push against, so they just sank into the snow, but I still couldn't breath. Luckily, this wasn't a tree well and I was able to get out and turn myself over. It was a super long time ago, but if I hadn't moved fast, I would have passed out... People were on the run, watching me, but they all stayed back out of the way along ways away. I guess, they would have come helped if I stopped moving. So, yeah when I ski trees, it's with my family and we keep an eye on each other, but writing this out, I've realized that if the tail person fell, we probably wouldn't be able to hike back up to them in time... I think I'll talk this over with my dad and sister.
Story 8: Interesting that the friend got the idea to put salt on a wound from the movie Gladiator. It's historically accurate! The Romans DID pack wounds with salt. However, that was because salt is an antiseptic. It doesn't promote healing - in fact the opposite is true, it can damage your skin and causes a lot of extra pain - but it does prevent bacteria from developing, which is important when it's gonna take you a couple days to get to a physician.
You'd actually be better off packing a wound with sugar, it promotes healing and is also antibacterial. Not a substitute for medical intervention, but if you're alone in the wilderness. It should be noted that you would then also have to keep the wildlife (particularly flies) off the sugar!
Despite being disgusting parasites, the idea of a leech projectile vomiting from pain humanizes them in a way I didn't expect, and actually makes me feel really sad. They really are just animals like the rest of us, just trying to survive.
Myth: you will have your survival gear with you if something happens. Realistically just always carry a bic lighter and a pocket knife everywhere you go. That is your base tools, carry food, water, compleate change of clothes and a sleeping system in your car at all times.
@@LegendStormcrow Depends on where you are, really. I spend most of my life here in SouthEast Texas, freezing isn't so much of a concern here. If I'm in a disaster situation, it's more likely to be due to a hurricane than anything else.
Even if you do recognize a mushroom, they have almost no nutritional value. Also, careful with heavy snow covered pines in winter. The snow can fall in a mini avalanch, and bury you. You will die. That said, if ut's cold/windy/raining, and the tree is not weighed down in snow, it's going to be a decent immediat quick shelter.
That's entirely dependent on what mushroom you find. Chicken of the woods is fairly nutritious. White puffballs not so much, but it will fill your stomach. Then you've got the psilocybin species. NEVER attempt to eat those if you're starving no matter how many times you've done them before.
Fascinating that RUclips has so many videos to moderate that they try to automate it and the way they do it is to punish creators that use the word "kill" and now every creator uses unalive, which was funny at the beginning, now it is annoying and 40 years from now will be just a regular synonym for "kill" if not a bad word.
If you are impaled, do not pull it out. It's the only thing stopping you from bleeding to death, wait for a medical person to remove it safely, and preferably in a setting where they can help stop further bleeding. Unfortunately, this is similar with crushed injuries. Removing the thing crushing the alive person might be what ends them. But if it's still significantly crushing the person, then it might still be doing damage. It's a tricky thing to navigate. An impaled object, the damage is likely done, taking it out will only do further damage.
About the brown bear thing, it depends on the sex of the bear, if its a female its probably defending cubs so it wants to immobalize you as a threat, but if its a male its probably predatory encounter, and in that case if you lay down, it will just eat you alive. And please note the "probably part" its a wild animal, you can try to predict its behavior but you cannot be 100% sure. If you go to a place where you can encounter a bear please prepare accordingly to the guidelines of the local authorities edit: typos
adding to ships... i grew up at a marina... one thing you learn is to NEVER swim next to a moored boat.. if it moves you can be dragged under it or even worse get sucked into the propellers.
The reason snake bite advice in the US doesn't include the "Stay put" advice is because in the US, the places where you are most likely to get bit by a snake are also the places where ambulances can't get to you. Heck, you might not even be able to call for help. That's why our advice suggests walking to someplace where you can call for help, if you can't just call for help where you are. As for sucking venom out, yeah, don't do that. You'll only end up introducing bacteria to the wound. One piece of advice I've gotten is that if you can take a photo of the snake, do it. Photographing the snake will help the doctors determine the best course of treatment for you, as some snakebites just need painkillers and others need antivenin.
* I am not an expert, but this is what I've been taught/learned through experience winter camping in temps down to -25C for over 10 years * If you are in a cold place, the most important thing is to avoid getting wet. If you have wet clothes, it's better to remove them than keep them on. I'm not sure if this is accurate if you have no other dry clothes, but if you do change or remove that layer asap. Silk and wool are the best things you can wear. DO NOT WEAR COTTON!! It absorbs moisture and does not insulate you. I've worn cotton underwear camping before and no matter how warm I was otherwise, my butt was frozen lmao. Even polyester is better than cotton. Wool wicks moisture away from you, and stays warm even if damp. Although I personally have not used it, I'm pretty sure leather and furs are a superior external layer above all else, so if you have access to that then sweet! Make sure to drink and eat lots, as being in the cold consumes a lot of energy, and drink hot water, not cold. If you start to sweat, remove layers to avoid making your clothes damp. Don't sit on the ground directly, as it will absolutely sap the warmth from you. We use anything from cardboard to hot water tank insulation for our sleeping mats. Try to breathe through your nose instead of your mouth. It can sting and be cold, but it's better for your lungs, as the air has more time to warm up before reaching them. The most important parts to keep warm are you limbs and appendages, especially feet, hands, and your head. They lose warmth super fast, and will make the rest of you cold very quickly. This also can be applied during hot weather,, to help cool down quickly. These are more so how to be safe and comfortable in extreme cold weather than survival tips, but I live somewhere with fairly mild weather so I see many people really struggle when we get cold snaps, especially people not used to cold weather at all. Something A super easy but very beneficial thing to do is just get some wool socks! It's crazy how helpful they are, as they keep your feet warm and dry. Bonus, wool is antibacterial!! so if you have issues with stinky feet, switching to wool socks will definitely help. You can even wear them in warmer weather, as they thermo regulate well!
Here's one: Do not pee on jellyfish stings! Urine is full of bacteria and is, in fact, one of the last things you should be putting on what is essentially an open wound. Depending on the species that stung you, you might be able to treat it at home with vinegar or you may need to go to the hospital.
The sinking ship story. Mythbusters was completely wrong on this one. The boat they used to demonstrate was far too small. It's completely different if you're in the water with a 20,000 ton ship going down beside you! I was a seaman for 40 years and while I was never sunk, I have friends who were and have spoken to others. They all experienced suction of one type or another, most were pulled under and of those it was only things like explosions in the ship or large air bubbles that brought them up. They all also witnessed others being pulled under who never came back up.
To my understanding; it's not a suction, but a mixture of excess dissolved gasses and tiny bubbles that reduce the water's density. Less density means less buoyancy, so youll sink much easier. The same effect happens in aeration tanks at water treatment facilities; if you fall in, you sink like a rock. Strong currents can't really pull down something positively buoyant like that on their own.
@@kauskeI'm pretty sure the aeration tank thing actually is a myth. I vaguely remember somebody testing it by swimming in one and being just fine, but they still warn about it because it's theoretically possible. The much bigger concern is the god awful amount of infection and illness in that water.
Another one: Don't drink your piss. Just don't. Bear Grills does it like every episode for shock value. It is actually not beneficial as your body ahs reaped the nutrients out of the liquids by that point.
Yes the main reason people get bit by snakes is because they try to hurt them thinking that is going to prevent a problem when in reality it causes the problem, they are literally no different than any other animal just leave them alone and they will leave you alone (Source: I keep and study snakes) I am also from Alaska lol yeah the bear attack advice changes based on the animals behavior not on the appearance
Yeah, I read a statistic on rattlle snake bites. Most of them - like 90 % of them happened during that one month when people in texas are doing rattle snake hunts to keep the population down according to that statistic.
@@achimsinn6189 those snake round ups are disgusting and I swear the worst of humanity come out to participate in them I've seen a video of one where they literally gave knives to children and allowed the children to participate in killing the animals! Literally sickening
@@mollycontenthunting for population control in itself isn't really a bad thing, I live in the US Northeast and you basically have to hunt the deer around here to keep the population from becoming self destructively large, but hunting culture itself is kind of insane. It feels like it's literally dudes from the suburbs trying to roleplay as frontiersman despite putting a full magazine into a deer from their AR-15 .
@@pennyforyourthots rattlesnakes are beneficial as they kill rodents which can harbor ticks which can harbor Lyme disease. On top of which the methods used in roundups are just ghastly.
Another reason to get away from sinking ships: if you survive the immediate danger of being sucked in, do not stay near the ship. The corroding metal and such will create a toxic and corrosive environment that is really bad for your body. If its damaging the metal, it will damage you. Source: navy sailor who had to do abandon ship drills. Also, stay near everyone else. If you are on a big enough ship for this scenario to matter, there will be other people, stick together. There will be inflatables. Get in and stay in.
Not a myth but a bit of medical advice. If you’ve just inserted a tampon and feel any sort of unwell immediately remove it. Toxic shock syndrome while rare is a real possibility and is very deadly and if you don’t catch it early it’s debilitating at best. This is not some thing you don’t need to worry about cause u live in a developed country ,it’s an issue.
Yeah, I never get why people look for food/water before shelter. You can survive 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food, but you aren’t surviving a day without shelter.
The tampon in the bullet hole is never a good idea, but you can use a sanitary pad as a makeshift gauze pad. Place it over the wound, and tape it securely to your arm or leg, or use it to hold pressure against a wound.
A few of these tips are like: "If you're under the ice, make sure you brought your ice picks." Oh sure. May as well say I have a shotgun to fend off the bear attacks too then, huh?
the bearsprey and fire extinguisher refrence. when using a fire extinguisher, you dont hold it still. you sway it back and forth. thing sprey and prey in battlefield or something. cover as much area with it. thats what they ment
Another thing people get wrong about nuclear bombs: The radiation’s timeline. People think that the radiation will last for hundreds of years, it won’t. It will last maybe at most 5 years. The reason nuclear power plant failures have longer lasting radiation is because they both launch nuclear material everywhere and also create corium (the stuff the Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot is made out of). Nuclear bombs do neither, they instantly vaporize the nuclear material as it reacts and the leftover radiation is just the radiation produced from the blast, in 10 years an area will be mostly radiation free, although try to avoid eating food from the area, as it will likely be contaminated as radiation taints food for far longer than it is actually present
I feel like the most useful one is the last one. Who hasn't rubbed their hands together or breathed warm air onto them when cold? Cold is also a much more common enemy than snake bites, bears, avalanches, or... falling into icy water. Besides that, the gun shot, car crash, and leech stuff sounds really useful as well. But really you never know when you could be in any of these situations. I learned some cool stuff in this vid whether I may need it someday or not.
Expanding on this - also don't wear earrings or other metal on / in your skin when it is very cold. Metal is a good transmitter of temperature and will lead the cold temperature into your skin faster. Also don't drink alcohol to get warmer - you might feel warmer, but it will actually have the opposite effect.
First thing I thought when I heard the tampon one was "people know those expand, right?" Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't something that doubles in width be bad for a wound? I wouldn't put something I knew would get larger in a wound, sounds like it would just worsen the damage and tear open the injury further.
I guess the thought process is if it expands, it'll plug up the wound better. I can see the logic, but if you're packing first aid supplies preemptively, then there's really no reason not to just grab some gauze
Undersparked to elaborate on the "fire extinguisher" analogy, they're talking about sweeping motion spraying. back and forth a few times while backing up ( or in the case of the fire getting closer to put it out but you don't wanna walk back INTO your bearspray cloud of course so in that case you back away from it) the idea is to use it more like a shield from a bear by saturating the air while moving away to deter the bear with the irritant as it charges using that sweeping motion for the wider range
There is nothing about sharks mainly because people it's rarer to find yourself face to face with shark and it's even more rare that this shark will attack. Even if it attacks it's rarely lethal because shark don't hunt for human but mistake human with their prey in 99% of cases
Take a class like Stop-The-Bleed and you’ll be stuffing an entire yard’s worth of gauze into a hole just big enough to fit a finger or two. That is what it takes to pack a wound.
If you live in a place that gets moderate to high levels of snow and you get stuck, cat litter and a shovel can get you out of a lot of snags. You need to dig your car out, and the cat litter can help your tires get traction. Having an extra person to hel push you out is also great. If you need to bunk down in your car though, don't keep it running. Turn it on periodically and keep the window cracked so you don't die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Keep blankets in your car along with a few snacks and water so you can wait for help. Don't light fires in the car. If you need to hike to get cell phone reception for a tow truck, make sure you can still get back to your car because that is your shelter. If you're close to the road, make sure you and your car are visible to traffic. Clear the car of snow for maximum visibility. Odds are if you're driving on that road, someone else will sooner or later, so you have more chances of getting help that way. Flag down cars if you can't call for help. Don't abandon the car though unless you're sure nobody's coming. If you have to leave it, stick to the road. If you're stuck on a highway, follow the closest exit to reach civilization faster. It may just be a gas station, but that's better than nothing.
Idk if its in the video but Myth: run in a zig zag formation when chased on foot by an alligator/crocodile, due to their bodies they can't turn properly This will get you killed or seriously hurt. First off the alligator will notice and just run straight. Second of all, you would be wasting energy running like that. The best advice is to run straight and run like hell. While alligators can run 35 mph, they are built to be better swimmers than runners and will eventually tire out on land.
Can we just talk for a second about how RUclips has become so fucked up that people are genuinely using "unalive" instead of the word kill because they are afraid of the crazy...
I'm pretty sure that the one about ticks was wrong. Putting salt, oil or alcohol on tick is a very bad idea. It will make it go away but it will cause more harm than good. Pulling tick out is actually what you are supposed to do. You should obviously learn how to do that and have appropriate tools for that. Medical professionals are actually trained to do that because it's what one should do if they know how. If a tick is removed early and safely it reduces the chance of catching some nasty disease by a significant margin.
Supposedly, if you paint nail polish on a ticks butt, it will back out because it can no longer breath since they breath through the butt when embedded. It won't happen immediately, so be patient.
I don't know what's up with people putting all that stuff on tics. What I do is a circular motion with my finger over the area, just enough to make the tick roll like a bead. It lets go almost immediately. I always feel tick bites, they hurt and then itch like crazy, and I need it out NOW. I think I might have an allergy.
@@onichan9710 both nail polish and lighter is bad idea. This will most likely lead to tick vomiting its stomach content before letting go. What you should do is use pincers, the same you would use for taking out a spliter, or something similar. Just look for how to remove a tick with pincers on the internet.
Also as a note, if you fall through ice and under the water, the spot you fell in will be DARK (the ice will be lighter). So aim for the DARK HOLE and you can come back up the same hole you fell in instead of getting trapped under the ice
So I live in an area heavily populated by snakes like rattlers, water moccasins, qnd copperheads. Most bites occur to men between the ages of 16-25 to the hands and face and under the influence of alcohol.
Story 12: sinking ships Rising bubbles from a sinking ship decrease the volume of water present in a given area by displacing it with a lighter gas, therefore making the water in that area less dense and 'lighter' and any solid substance (aka body) comparatively 'heavier'. You get pulled down by the bubbles
Wilderness survival depends on training and is specific to the environment. Tips for a tropical jungle are very different from tips for a temperate forest. But preparedness is useful, specially if you do critical reevaluations. Tourniquets and hemostatic bandages are useful, but unless you are trekking in Brazil or Colombia, you will be more served by band-aids and insect repellents.
#1 makes sense. Predator is attacking you for food andnit would rather go hungry then die, the herbivores think you want to eat them, so they respond with deadly force.
Story 15 is saying that you should use it like a fire extinguisher as in do the same motion with a fire extinguisher you wave it back and forth to cover the most ground as it falls, with bear spray you do the same except to cover the most air as it lingers in the air. also my friend talked to me about bears (more like my sisters friends boyfriend) and grizzly bears are terrifying. if you have no tools for self defense, you are as good as dead, since they run faster than you, are stronger than you, climb trees and swim in water, and are of course much bigger than you.
So on the snake thing; My little sister works ER, and she says that if you have some way of sucking venom from the wound that DOES NOT INVOLVE YOUR MOUTH DO NOT DO THAT, it can, in fact, buy you some time. But it can ONLY buy you time. The venom is already in your bloodstream, you still need medical attention. Also, I’m gonna assume if you do it wrong enough you’ll screw something royally, so like… if you don’t know what you’re doing, maybe just, don’t.
To put it shortly; The amount of downward drag from a sinking vessel depends on its size and the speed at which it's going under. Stay on the boat for as long as possible. Listen to the professionals, the captain and the crew, on what to do and when to do it. Basically: Cruise ships and ferries (Giant boats); you wait on deck for as long as possible and then get far away when in the water. Normal-sized motor boats; you stay on the deck/ highest point on that ship until it disappears beneath your feet. Normal-sized sailing ships; Mostly the same. Stay on board for as long as possible, but look out for the rigging, if caught in it you could get dragged down with the ship. Now the much longer version: The thing about ships and boats is; that it's all about size! And the speed of the sinking! The bigger the vessel the more water is displaced as it sinks below the surface and the more drag it creates. If it's sinking really slowly, the water has more time to essentially fill the 'vacuum' and it will create a less strong current doing so. Ships don't tend to sink as fast as in the movies, especially the big ones. Like we are mostly talking hours. This is why you should wait for the captain/crew's order before evacuating. Sometimes the way the big boats are built, water-tight compartments, mean they won't fully sink, even if it looks that way initially. Stay on the ship as long as possible to also increase your chances of rescue. Any search for survivors will start where the ship went down. Do not enter the water without a lifejacket if at all possible, getting in a lifeboat is even better. Sometimes, if you don't have a floating device, it might be a good idea to swim back to the sight of the sinking of a big ship a while after it's completely gone and look for floating debris to hang on to. The best course of action may change depending on your access to a lifejacket or a lifeboat. How fast the vessel is sinking. Where in the world you are and even things like the weather conditions and time of day. If you have the time, throwing something floating into the water and seeing what it does might help you figure out what to do. Is the object staying on the surface, getting pulled closer/ away from the ship or even getting dragged underwater is useful information to have. Keep in mind that a life jacket will counteract a certain amount of downward pull and sometimes bring you back to the surface. 99,99% of the time it's best to listen to the professionals, the captain and the crew, on what to do and when to do it. Make sure the ship is actually fully sinking (like will be gone gone under the waves) before abandoning it. Plenty of people have misjudged this in the past and continue to do so to this day; it's how you end up with ghost ships. Abandoned vessels drifting around with the wind and current with no people on board. Sometimes we know what happened. The crew/ people on board were rescued one way or another, or found in a lifeboat somewhere. Sometimes, more commonly the further back in time we look, the ship was found drifting with the winds and the crew seemed to have vanished. Often there are traces left behind, damage to the vessel, no lifeboat, and things missing, like personal effects and the ship's logbook and navigation instruments. Clues that could tell the story of what most likely happened. Often a ship is mistaken for sinking and abandoned as a result. Mostly in bad weather. The lifeboat sadly not making it, but the ship sailed on as a ghost on the waves. Some ghost ships and how they came to be that way are mysteries, still debated to this day. If/ when you are on board a big ship like a ferry or cruise ship, do pay attention to the safety video, even if you have heard it before. It's a good idea to make notice of the closet emergency exit, where life jackets and boats are stored, and so on as you move around the ship. Especially if the voyage extends to after-dark, walking the path to the nearest emergency exit instead of just noting it on a chard, could save your life. Lights can go out in an emergency. A fire could mean smoke too thick to see through. In the dark and most likely panicked (who wouldn't be?) the ekstra familiarity and sense memory of the route to safety might easily make a difference. A few more water-related survival tips, and generally good ideas since I'm on a roll: Wear a danm lifejacket when sailing! - If you are on any kind of hobby ship/ sailing boat/ motor boat wear a lifejacket when you are not below deck! It doesn't matter how great you are at swimming if you hit your head on the way down to the water. - Wear a life jacket in small rowboats, canoes and kayaks too. - A life jacket will keep you afloat and breathing when you are too tired and/or cold to do it yourself. - A lifejacket also makes you a lot easier to spot for anyone trying to fish you back out of the water. They are brightly colored and usually come with helpful things like whistles and light. Spotting someone in waves is hard. At night you can pretty much forget about it without some sort of light or reflective surface. A lifeline securing you to the boat in any kind of bad weather. (which you should not be sailing in to begin with, pay attention to the forecast and plan ahead) People have been washed overboard by waves before and big ones can absolutely come out of seemingly nowhere. Launching, especially inflated, life rafts/ boats in windy conditions might be tricky or damn near impossible if the wind is strong enough. - It might be a good idea to tie it to the boat until everybody is in it depending on the circumstances. Just make sure you can get it free in an instant, so it won't get dragged down with the ship. Again; most if not all of the time it's best to stay on the boat as long as absolutely possible. Wet clothes drag you down, so it is often best to get rid of them. - Unless you are wearing a lifejacket + something made of wool and hyperthermia is a real risk. Wool is insulating even when soaked through but gets super heavy. Water cools you down slower than air. Get as much of your body out of the water as possible. Anything floating can help, even wearing a life jacket. Water reflects light; Ekstra sunscreen and sunglasses are a good idea when sailing or just near a lot of water. If you plan to go bathing anywhere you are unfamiliar with, please do your research. - Are there any known dangers? Tidel currents, dangerous animals, weather patterns. Don't go swimming alone!!! Never ever swim against the current! You won't make it and will just wear yourself out. Wait it out. If dragged out from near the beach, you can try and swim to the side until the current goes away, then swim back to shore. Keep an eye on the tide and the wind. If it's going/ blowing away from the shore; be extra vigilant in the water and do not use any flotation devices! - If you do get dragged out to sea; stay on the damn thing! It's easier for rescuers to spot than a person in the water and will keep you from drowning! Avoid bathing in harbors, you do not want to know what ends up in that water. Just trust me on this. - If you somehow fall into the harbor, many places have latters placed around so people can climb back out. Taking note of where they are when you first get to the waterfront is generally a good idea. - Please do not get drunk near the harbor. There are so many stories of that ending tragic. Drowning people is panicked and will drag you down to try and save themselves. They could drown you! it does happen! Even to great swimmers. So think twice before jumping in after someone. Two dead people are worse than one, harsh as that sounds. It is better to toss something else for them to cling to and hopefully drag them in with a rope. A lot of places have things like life rings placed around for this purpose. Dry drowning is a thing. It can happen hours after you leave the water. Has to do with infection in the lungs if memory serves. Any water in your lungs should result in a trip to the doctor. If you are ever unfortunate enough to get stuck in something filling up with water it's difficult, often near impossible, to escape against the current. The best thing to do is stay calm, make use of any air bubbles for as long as possible, and wait for the thing to be filled up before trying to escape. - If it's a car, kicking out the front windscreen might be the easiest way to get out. Fast-moving current can knock your legs out from under you, and it takes a lot less than you would think. Better safe than sorry. On a related note; be careful around dry riverbeds near mountains and canyons in similar areas. Rain in the mountains, sometimes too far away for you to be aware of, may result in a wall of water and debris heading your way faster than a running horse. Look out for the signs in the landscapes. - Just... do a little research before heading out into nature or really anywhere. A quick google search can save you so much trouble, hassle and even danger. - And tell someone where you are going and when to expect you back. And just in case the needs to be said; Do not drink seawater. Sorry for the rant, be safe out there. 🙂
A small tidbit about fire extinguishers that is definitely different from bear spray, you use the extinguisher on the 'foot' of the fire, that is where the fuel is.
"Now I know I'll die in an achalanche" People need to learn that there are situations that you can't survive once you got yourself into them. It's a lot like war: You can't do anything if a grenade lands to you or artillery shell hits your position, but you can do a lot of things BEFORE that happens so it DOESN'T happen. It's about preventing risks or avoiding them, rather than thinking about how to deal with consequences.
Addendum to story 12. If you find yourself on a sinking ship and have the misfortune to have oil in the water….. and I’m not talking about a quart of penzoil. I mean a tanker spill or whatever reason your shit has let loose somewhere between a shit load and a fuck ton in the water, then your chances of getting through that barrier and surviving went down significantly. The viscosity of oil makes it near impossible to propel yourself through it. The sailors involved in maritime disaster the USS Indianapolis died for more reasons than drowning, shark attacks, dehydration or starvation. Those who found themselves diving overboard and into oil flooded seas one moment swam through the ocean until next they hit a wall of oil and they were unable to swim through and escape because they could not propel themselves thru the oil or surface to breath. Just a little FYI incidentally sailors that did miraculously make it through the oil and were coated with the oil whom survived, found themselves having a somewhat easier time with the situation due to the oil on their bodies making for a pretty effective sunscreen.
1:40 for the dear love of god please use an avalanche beacon if you are going skiing, hiking or any other activities in the mountain with a lot of snow, especially if there's a higher risk of an avalanche happening in the area, it is worth the extra money trust me. It also makes our work as rescue much easier if you were to ever get trapped in an avalanche, and I don't wanna hear "but it's only this one time", then ask a friend for one or see if you can borrow it from a place, but you never know if this "one time" is gonna be the one time where an avalanche happens. And even if you wouldn't get caught in it, other people can, and then you're beacon can be the reason another person survived.
about snakes: depends on the area. In Russia, I have heard more than once that the further north the territory, the less deadly the venom of local snakes. In any case, given our long distances and bad roads, often the best solution is to get to the hospital yourself or at least to the nearest populated area.
On the "ships suck you down when they sink" thing - I think it's a bit of a splitting hairs situation. Mythbusters is right, the ship itself does not suck you down. However, the guy who survived the Titanic is also right - the motion of the ship through the water can create currents that can drag you around.
I wanted to add on to rhe one about car accidents and not moving, you could have a spinal injury, and if you move you could become a paraplegic, or quadriplegic. DO NOT MOVE EVER.
11:40 Mythbusters was wrong. While they succesfully proved that suction provides no real threat during a sinking of small vessels, despite claiming so, they failed to prove the same for big vessels. A sinking object itself doesn't generate suction automatically, but they failed to properly take into account the existance of watertight bulkheads. Watertight bulkheads are constructions in a ship that ostencibly function like walls that stop water that's rushed into one area of the ship from going into another area if/when the hull (the outside of the ship) is breached. On the titanic, as well as in the sinking of many large ships, bulkheads which still contain substantial amounts of air will be sucked down too, which, when sinking, become low pressure zones sucking in water through any holes in the bulkhead and/or above the bulkhead walls. You can absolutely be sucked down along with the water like what happened to sir. Lightoller, who was referenced by the commenter. He was sucked against a grate above one of these bulkheads. He got very lucky with the fact that the bulkhead underneath him was the bulkhead containing the boiler room, and that some of the boilers started exploding when the bulkhead flooded too much causing warm air to release from the grate with force, temporarily countering the sucking effect and inflow of water. Suction isn't the only reason why you shouldn't stay immediately near a sinking ship by the way. The commenter mentioned some of them, but one people may not realize is being hit by a high-speed object. If unflooded parts of the ship break off underwater, or large/sharp buoyant items get loose underwater, they may end up being catapulted at speed to the surface. I shouldn't have to say that the (metaphorical) equivolent of being speared and/or struck by a truck, is not exactly going to help your survival odds.
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher: RACE : Rescue people, get them away from the fire. Alarm people, pull fire alarm and call fire rescue. Confine the fire, make sure nothing else can catch. Extinguish the fire, (PASS). PASS: Pull the pin. Aim at base of flame. Squeeze Trigger. Sweep the nozzle side to side until flame is extinguished. The part op was referring to at 14:06 is the sweep motion.
I’ve heard the good ol’ ‘if someone is having a seizure, put something in their mouth to prevent them from choking on their tongue.’ No. Don’t do that. They’re more likely to choke on whatever you put in their mouth. It is incredibly difficult to choke on your own tongue, in fact I’m pretty sure the only way to asphyxiate on your own tongue is if it is no longer attached.
A quick tip about avalanches and blizzards. If you’re under the snow spit, it’ll either go left right up or down to show which direction you gotta dig to
I did not know about the staying and not moving after a car crash one. I had a way out and I took it. Totaled my car, but those airbags saved my life after colliding with an idiot under the influence of unknown origin. Did not think for a second about staying and waiting for help.
On the snake one the tourniquet idea is right.. if it is on a limb stopping blood flow can be your only choice to save your life . I'd rather lose a limb rather than my life to poison, also snakes don't always male themselves known and attack out of no where, best way to deal with them is to wear thick jeans, boots, long sleeve thick jackets and gloves.. a snake usually attacks the arms and legs since they are smaller and easier to bite If you get bit by a snake on the limb you have two options either the broad pressure bandage(not everyone has this) or tourniquet(you can use a belt or shirt if needed, when applied properly it should hurt where the pressure from the tourniquet is applied
The running away part sounds good in theory, but you may not be able to do this in practice. When faced with danger, humans have three reactions fight, flight or freeze. Most people tend to freeze as fear literally takes over their bodies and survival instinct takes over. In these cases, you may not be able to run left or right when being chased by a car as you focus on running in the opposite direction. Not saying that the advice is bad, it's very good, but there is a point to be made about when you are in the moment. You can say you are going to do all of these things, but when it comes to it, you may not be able to.
So there’s a problem in my town where Bears will just get into trash cans regularly, and some people have started making sprinkler systems with bear spray. They put a sensor on the curb in front of the trashcan. And if the trashcan is opened, it sprays bear spray from inside the trashcan because they put a little hole in the bottom of the can so you won’t get hit unless you open the can and look inside or stand by the can after it sprays but it has stopped having to clean up trash on the street every day
Fire extinguisher training teaches you P.A.S.S. Pull the pin, Aim at the base of the fire, Squeeze the trigger, and Sweep the area. By saying treat it like a fire extinguisher, he means basically spray and wave while backing up on your way out so that when/if the bear charges you, it will have to run through that cloud. ❤
the snake one is misleading, with neurotoxic venom you need to isolate the appendage so instead of shutting down your nervous system you lose a finger. (I'm not sure about arms or legs though, this is specifically for fingers)
The bear spray one when he refers to a fire extinguisher, he means point it towards your target area and sweep back and forth like you’d use an extinguisher on the base of a fire.
The "fire extinguisher" bit means "spray and sweep." It's not the best analogy, since with the extinguisher you want to aim basically at the ground, but the back-and-forth motion while emptying the whole can applies in both cases.
When they say to use it like a fire extinguisher, they just mean spray with a sweeping motion. You're supposed to use a fire extinguisher in a sweeping motion aimed at the base of the fire.
the one i have always heard is you can extract water from a cactus NO YOU CAN NOT cactus water is extremely acidic do NOT drink it there is only one type of cactus you can drink the water from and that is the barrel Cactus but you in an emergency situation can eat the cactus fruit
Still lots of bear misinformation around here. General rule of thumb for black or grizzly bears is to make yourself look as big as possible and make as much noise as you can. Back away slowly. Obviously this is just for an encounter, not an attack. Also polar bears are the one predator that actively hunts humans, I have never been around one, but from everything I hear about them, you're screwed, you need to kill them. Source: guide and recreator in Jasper National Park
Remember; If a predator attacks you, it probably mistook you for prey. If you prove you’re not prey, or that you’re more trouble that it’s worth, it will probably give up. If a prey animal attacks you, it probably thinks you’re trying to eat it. It is fighting for its life, and if it can’t survive it’ll try to take you down with it. If it’s a wild boar… good luck, I hope you have a sufficient hunting weapon.
for rule fourteen sure if its brown lay down if its black fight back might be wrong but you can never go wrong with, "if its white dont even try to put up a fight"
Getting out of a seatbelt when your car is flipped over. Your need to stabilicy yourself with one hand BEFORE you open the seatbelt, or you'll fall straight onto your head meaning that you could give yourself a concussion, skullfracture break your neck or similar nasty injuríes. Don't panic and opend the seatbelts right away.
no one even covered this, so i feel required to. do NOT hide under an overpass during a tornado. Overpasses act as WIND TUNNELS and will make the wind FASTER. The whole reason this myth spawned was because of the 1999 Moore EF5, but do NOT do it, they were lucky that the overpass had those.. I forget the name but kinda like.. ceiling pillars. Your best bet is to get out of your car, run to the nearest ditch, and lay down in it. It may be gross because of the mud and water you'll get on you, but it is your best chance of surviving on a highway during a tornado.
old comment, I know, but wouldn't the best bet, if you're in a car, be just driving away from the tornado? Not in a straight line from it's path, (if it looks like it's not moving, it's moving towards you) but roughly perpendicular to it's path.
Also, if you’re ever in a crash and you can feel your adrenaline pumping still do not move because if you have adrenaline you’re not gonna have pain so whatever you might’ve hurt in the crash you’re not gonna be able to feel till probably a good 90 seconds later and if youmove you might fuck it up even more
Adrenaline is not what's making it painless, it doesn't really tell you anything other than that you're still shocked and in fight or flight. Just don't move if you're not absolutely sure that you're not hurt. There's no way to tell if you still have endomorphins. Just call the emergency number and wait for help if there's not already somebody there to help you.
I've never heard the salt on burns thing. Sounds like a prank. As for the snakes, Aussies really underestimate cottonmouths and the modern rattlesnake. You can get bit with literally no warning since people have been selectively breeding non-rattling by killing every one if then that rattles. If a rattle snake rattles, let it live. If it doesn't, that's the one to eat. Also, shovels work in a pinch, but don't unless you have to.
More Australians die from snake bites than Americans do, I don't know where he got that idea from. But Aussie snakes are frickin lethal while American snakes are just really painful. Untreated Aussie snake bites can be 100% lethal. Untreated Coral Snake bites are about 10%, Eastern Diamondbacks are about the same. Mojave rattlesnake bites are really bad, with closer to 40% apparently.
The best place to store your water is inside of you. People have died in the desert from dehydration and had near full canteens.
Yes but always in moderation
They died from demineralization, not dehydration
As TV Tropes would say, the water was Too Awesome To Use.
this sounds like the guys from dune - sorry for forgetting the name of the volk, but the ones who wear special suits that recycle your sweat and pee for water that keeps you hydrated.
Fremen, they are called. Using stillsuits.
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15:23 fun fact about hypothermia you feel hot during it, if you feel hot in a usually cold place (with few exceptions) DO NOT try to get colder.
Think of it as your body's thermometer experiencing an underflow error (in computing, this is where a value gets so low that it wraps around back to the highest possible value)
yeah its also your body trying to heat itself i think
No thats only at one stage! theres 4 stages!
Nearly nobody knows this about leeches! I had my legs COVERED in them at a school camp 20ish years ago. Teachers poured salt on, and a few hours later I was being picked up by an ambulance, I was so sick. Blood infection. Don't fuck with parasites 🙃
They poured salt on the leeches?
I had never heard of this before today.
it is preety commanly known in india to use salt in case of leeches
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@@coolboss999 Yeah some people think that putting salt on leeches will dry the out like a snail
It is true, they do shrivel up like a snail. However, the vomiting thing is also true. Not that I’ve even seen a leech vomit, lol
I have two, both disaster survival myths.
1) In a hurricane, you are *NOT* safest under a highway overpass. If the overpass collapses, you're dead. The safest place to be is an underground shelter.
2) Don't open one window during a tornado. Open zero windows.
A tornado can get an egg through a barn door. 2 barn doors if one of them's open.
A fire extinguisher is used by spraying over a wider area than the fire is actively on. Spray wide cover everything is the main point here
I was shown that you somewhat go around the fire and close in on it, if you directly blast the fire straight on you could accidentally send embers flying and something or someone else can catch fire. I'm glad you brought this up, it's not something most people know. But on fires in general, FIRE BLANKETS! Underrated and often a better solution to putting various types of fires out, especially in an enclosed space or if somebody is directly on fire.
@@Mizzybelle. Agreed with the fire blankets being way more useful. Or in certain cases kicking sand over a small fire is better than trying to use liquids(I live near a beach. Some people got drunk and accidentally lit a bush on fire. In the panic of trying to find any liquid to pour on it they used the alcohol that were drinking. I helped kick sand on it instead which fixed the problem. Using liquids can be a gamble for fire)
Yeah, I was imagining spraying in broad strokes rather than "point and -shoot- spray"
@@RHTQ1 Yeah. Extinguishers got a lot of force. So using it to directly shoot the fire is a good way to send stuff flying. And it can be hard to remember technique right in the moment. So the fire blanket is way better for if you have to worry about panic
For the first one, there's a rule of three: 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. Prioritise accordingly.
You’re useless after about a day of no water though
something that some people still seem to believe actually works:
If you're stranded out at sea or somewhere with no water, _do not drink your own pee._ Urine is _extremely_ salty, which will pull the water you're trying to conserve out of your cells. Not to mention the amount of water your body will waste trying to get rid of all the excess salt. Urine is a waste product for a reason, it's the stuff our body doesn't need, mixed in with water to make it easier to pass. Yes, if it's filtered enough it can be drunk, but most people aren't exactly going to have the equipment needed to filter.
Adding on to that, if you're stranded at sea, don't drink the seawater either. It'll have the exact same effect as drinking urine.
If you're stranded somewhere without drinkable water, stay out of the sun as much as you can, do as little strenuous activity as possible, and do your best to find drinkable water. Rainwater is pretty much always a safe option if there's nothing else, but it's best to find water that's proven to be safe. If you get sick you're only going to lose more water when your body has to fight it off. If you have to choose between walking or running to find civilization, walk. Only run if you're sure you'll be able to get water at whichever place you're heading to, and even then it's still better to walk.
To go with the snow stuff a fear I unlocked is tree wells, pockets of air covered by snow under trees, If you fall in one and no one sees you will die. So if you're skiing or snow boarding stay away from the trees.
Yes, super scary too. I've been face down in powder (fluffy loose snow that's super fun to ski & snowboard through). When I pushed my arms down, there was nothing to push against, so they just sank into the snow, but I still couldn't breath. Luckily, this wasn't a tree well and I was able to get out and turn myself over. It was a super long time ago, but if I hadn't moved fast, I would have passed out... People were on the run, watching me, but they all stayed back out of the way along ways away. I guess, they would have come helped if I stopped moving. So, yeah when I ski trees, it's with my family and we keep an eye on each other, but writing this out, I've realized that if the tail person fell, we probably wouldn't be able to hike back up to them in time... I think I'll talk this over with my dad and sister.
Story 8: Interesting that the friend got the idea to put salt on a wound from the movie Gladiator. It's historically accurate! The Romans DID pack wounds with salt. However, that was because salt is an antiseptic. It doesn't promote healing - in fact the opposite is true, it can damage your skin and causes a lot of extra pain - but it does prevent bacteria from developing, which is important when it's gonna take you a couple days to get to a physician.
You'd actually be better off packing a wound with sugar, it promotes healing and is also antibacterial. Not a substitute for medical intervention, but if you're alone in the wilderness. It should be noted that you would then also have to keep the wildlife (particularly flies) off the sugar!
Despite being disgusting parasites, the idea of a leech projectile vomiting from pain humanizes them in a way I didn't expect, and actually makes me feel really sad. They really are just animals like the rest of us, just trying to survive.
Myth: you will have your survival gear with you if something happens. Realistically just always carry a bic lighter and a pocket knife everywhere you go. That is your base tools, carry food, water, compleate change of clothes and a sleeping system in your car at all times.
Gatorade is better than water due to the higher freeze point. They also have thicker bottles.
@@LegendStormcrow Depends on where you are, really. I spend most of my life here in SouthEast Texas, freezing isn't so much of a concern here. If I'm in a disaster situation, it's more likely to be due to a hurricane than anything else.
Even then, calories and electrolytes.@@KamiNoBaka1
Hi! A channel like this that doesn't use AI voice is easier and more comfortable to listen to and we all really appreciate the work you do!
IRONICLY IT IS AI! they just are fairy good but its still obvious if you know what to look for and pay attention!
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307hey pal why are you lying
Even if you do recognize a mushroom, they have almost no nutritional value.
Also, careful with heavy snow covered pines in winter. The snow can fall in a mini avalanch, and bury you. You will die. That said, if ut's cold/windy/raining, and the tree is not weighed down in snow, it's going to be a decent immediat quick shelter.
That's entirely dependent on what mushroom you find. Chicken of the woods is fairly nutritious. White puffballs not so much, but it will fill your stomach. Then you've got the psilocybin species. NEVER attempt to eat those if you're starving no matter how many times you've done them before.
Fascinating that RUclips has so many videos to moderate that they try to automate it and the way they do it is to punish creators that use the word "kill" and now every creator uses unalive, which was funny at the beginning, now it is annoying and 40 years from now will be just a regular synonym for "kill" if not a bad word.
If you are impaled, do not pull it out. It's the only thing stopping you from bleeding to death, wait for a medical person to remove it safely, and preferably in a setting where they can help stop further bleeding.
Unfortunately, this is similar with crushed injuries. Removing the thing crushing the alive person might be what ends them. But if it's still significantly crushing the person, then it might still be doing damage. It's a tricky thing to navigate. An impaled object, the damage is likely done, taking it out will only do further damage.
About the brown bear thing, it depends on the sex of the bear, if its a female its probably defending cubs so it wants to immobalize you as a threat, but if its a male its probably predatory encounter, and in that case if you lay down, it will just eat you alive. And please note the "probably part" its a wild animal, you can try to predict its behavior but you cannot be 100% sure. If you go to a place where you can encounter a bear please prepare accordingly to the guidelines of the local authorities
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Instructions unclear. Tried checking the bear's genitals. Got mauled
Anyone else find it funny he says "Warm up" around 16:18 and then his character walks into fire?
adding to ships... i grew up at a marina... one thing you learn is to NEVER swim next to a moored boat.. if it moves you can be dragged under it or even worse get sucked into the propellers.
The reason snake bite advice in the US doesn't include the "Stay put" advice is because in the US, the places where you are most likely to get bit by a snake are also the places where ambulances can't get to you. Heck, you might not even be able to call for help. That's why our advice suggests walking to someplace where you can call for help, if you can't just call for help where you are.
As for sucking venom out, yeah, don't do that. You'll only end up introducing bacteria to the wound.
One piece of advice I've gotten is that if you can take a photo of the snake, do it. Photographing the snake will help the doctors determine the best course of treatment for you, as some snakebites just need painkillers and others need antivenin.
* I am not an expert, but this is what I've been taught/learned through experience winter camping in temps down to -25C for over 10 years *
If you are in a cold place, the most important thing is to avoid getting wet. If you have wet clothes, it's better to remove them than keep them on. I'm not sure if this is accurate if you have no other dry clothes, but if you do change or remove that layer asap. Silk and wool are the best things you can wear.
DO NOT WEAR COTTON!! It absorbs moisture and does not insulate you. I've worn cotton underwear camping before and no matter how warm I was otherwise, my butt was frozen lmao. Even polyester is better than cotton. Wool wicks moisture away from you, and stays warm even if damp. Although I personally have not used it, I'm pretty sure leather and furs are a superior external layer above all else, so if you have access to that then sweet!
Make sure to drink and eat lots, as being in the cold consumes a lot of energy, and drink hot water, not cold. If you start to sweat, remove layers to avoid making your clothes damp.
Don't sit on the ground directly, as it will absolutely sap the warmth from you. We use anything from cardboard to hot water tank insulation for our sleeping mats.
Try to breathe through your nose instead of your mouth. It can sting and be cold, but it's better for your lungs, as the air has more time to warm up before reaching them.
The most important parts to keep warm are you limbs and appendages, especially feet, hands, and your head. They lose warmth super fast, and will make the rest of you cold very quickly. This also can be applied during hot weather,, to help cool down quickly.
These are more so how to be safe and comfortable in extreme cold weather than survival tips, but I live somewhere with fairly mild weather so I see many people really struggle when we get cold snaps, especially people not used to cold weather at all. Something A super easy but very beneficial thing to do is just get some wool socks! It's crazy how helpful they are, as they keep your feet warm and dry. Bonus, wool is antibacterial!! so if you have issues with stinky feet, switching to wool socks will definitely help. You can even wear them in warmer weather, as they thermo regulate well!
Here's one: Do not pee on jellyfish stings! Urine is full of bacteria and is, in fact, one of the last things you should be putting on what is essentially an open wound. Depending on the species that stung you, you might be able to treat it at home with vinegar or you may need to go to the hospital.
The pee is sterile myth is pretty dangerous on its own
Pee is sterile. Mid stream.
@@KaitouKaiju I don't know how that got stared. I mean it is _pee!_
@@KaitouKaiju It is sterile mid stream! so your wrong like that guy! It works great for jellyfish stings esp man of war! Greatly reduces the scars!
The sinking ship story. Mythbusters was completely wrong on this one. The boat they used to demonstrate was far too small. It's completely different if you're in the water with a 20,000 ton ship going down beside you! I was a seaman for 40 years and while I was never sunk, I have friends who were and have spoken to others. They all experienced suction of one type or another, most were pulled under and of those it was only things like explosions in the ship or large air bubbles that brought them up. They all also witnessed others being pulled under who never came back up.
To my understanding; it's not a suction, but a mixture of excess dissolved gasses and tiny bubbles that reduce the water's density. Less density means less buoyancy, so youll sink much easier. The same effect happens in aeration tanks at water treatment facilities; if you fall in, you sink like a rock. Strong currents can't really pull down something positively buoyant like that on their own.
@@kauskeI'm pretty sure the aeration tank thing actually is a myth. I vaguely remember somebody testing it by swimming in one and being just fine, but they still warn about it because it's theoretically possible.
The much bigger concern is the god awful amount of infection and illness in that water.
the bear thing helps a lot. “if it thinks youre a threat, lie down. if it thinks youre prey, fight back”
instead of the usual rhyme
Another one: Don't drink your piss. Just don't. Bear Grills does it like every episode for shock value. It is actually not beneficial as your body ahs reaped the nutrients out of the liquids by that point.
Yes the main reason people get bit by snakes is because they try to hurt them thinking that is going to prevent a problem when in reality it causes the problem, they are literally no different than any other animal just leave them alone and they will leave you alone
(Source: I keep and study snakes)
I am also from Alaska lol yeah the bear attack advice changes based on the animals behavior not on the appearance
Also people sucking venom out is so fricken dumb. I hear that a lot from people like no that ain't gonna help lol. I am a reptile enjoyer too.
Yeah, I read a statistic on rattlle snake bites. Most of them - like 90 % of them happened during that one month when people in texas are doing rattle snake hunts to keep the population down according to that statistic.
@@achimsinn6189 those snake round ups are disgusting and I swear the worst of humanity come out to participate in them I've seen a video of one where they literally gave knives to children and allowed the children to participate in killing the animals! Literally sickening
@@mollycontenthunting for population control in itself isn't really a bad thing, I live in the US Northeast and you basically have to hunt the deer around here to keep the population from becoming self destructively large, but hunting culture itself is kind of insane. It feels like it's literally dudes from the suburbs trying to roleplay as frontiersman despite putting a full magazine into a deer from their AR-15 .
@@pennyforyourthots rattlesnakes are beneficial as they kill rodents which can harbor ticks which can harbor Lyme disease.
On top of which the methods used in roundups are just ghastly.
Another reason to get away from sinking ships: if you survive the immediate danger of being sucked in, do not stay near the ship. The corroding metal and such will create a toxic and corrosive environment that is really bad for your body. If its damaging the metal, it will damage you. Source: navy sailor who had to do abandon ship drills. Also, stay near everyone else. If you are on a big enough ship for this scenario to matter, there will be other people, stick together. There will be inflatables. Get in and stay in.
Not a myth but a bit of medical advice. If you’ve just inserted a tampon and feel any sort of unwell immediately remove it. Toxic shock syndrome while rare is a real possibility and is very deadly and if you don’t catch it early it’s debilitating at best. This is not some thing you don’t need to worry about cause u live in a developed country ,it’s an issue.
i thought the way tampons are made were changed because of the tss? at least thats what we were taught in medtech school. is this still a thing?
Yes, and it only affects ones left in longer than 24 hours. They stopped making extra absorbent 24 hour ones. But ANY left too long has a risk.
Yeah, I never get why people look for food/water before shelter. You can survive 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food, but you aren’t surviving a day without shelter.
The tampon in the bullet hole is never a good idea, but you can use a sanitary pad as a makeshift gauze pad. Place it over the wound, and tape it securely to your arm or leg, or use it to hold pressure against a wound.
A few of these tips are like: "If you're under the ice, make sure you brought your ice picks." Oh sure. May as well say I have a shotgun to fend off the bear attacks too then, huh?
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I get lost in my school that has marked paths to blocks, ain’t no way I wouldn’t think you can’t get lost on marked paths
the bearsprey and fire extinguisher refrence. when using a fire extinguisher, you dont hold it still. you sway it back and forth. thing sprey and prey in battlefield or something. cover as much area with it. thats what they ment
Another thing people get wrong about nuclear bombs: The radiation’s timeline. People think that the radiation will last for hundreds of years, it won’t. It will last maybe at most 5 years. The reason nuclear power plant failures have longer lasting radiation is because they both launch nuclear material everywhere and also create corium (the stuff the Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot is made out of). Nuclear bombs do neither, they instantly vaporize the nuclear material as it reacts and the leftover radiation is just the radiation produced from the blast, in 10 years an area will be mostly radiation free, although try to avoid eating food from the area, as it will likely be contaminated as radiation taints food for far longer than it is actually present
I feel like the most useful one is the last one. Who hasn't rubbed their hands together or breathed warm air onto them when cold? Cold is also a much more common enemy than snake bites, bears, avalanches, or... falling into icy water. Besides that, the gun shot, car crash, and leech stuff sounds really useful as well.
But really you never know when you could be in any of these situations. I learned some cool stuff in this vid whether I may need it someday or not.
Expanding on this - also don't wear earrings or other metal on / in your skin when it is very cold. Metal is a good transmitter of temperature and will lead the cold temperature into your skin faster. Also don't drink alcohol to get warmer - you might feel warmer, but it will actually have the opposite effect.
When did "unalive" become a word? All of the sudden people can't say "kill" "die" "suicide" or "murder" anymore?
Algorithms hate that bc they can't be marketable.
RUclips demonetizes anyone that says those words, yeah.
They also use “self delete” and apparently recently they are starting to be stricter on even saying censored words now
First thing I thought when I heard the tampon one was "people know those expand, right?" Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't something that doubles in width be bad for a wound? I wouldn't put something I knew would get larger in a wound, sounds like it would just worsen the damage and tear open the injury further.
I guess the thought process is if it expands, it'll plug up the wound better. I can see the logic, but if you're packing first aid supplies preemptively, then there's really no reason not to just grab some gauze
Undersparked to elaborate on the "fire extinguisher" analogy, they're talking about sweeping motion spraying. back and forth a few times while backing up ( or in the case of the fire getting closer to put it out but you don't wanna walk back INTO your bearspray cloud of course so in that case you back away from it) the idea is to use it more like a shield from a bear by saturating the air while moving away to deter the bear with the irritant as it charges using that sweeping motion for the wider range
The sinking ship doesn't suck you down, raising bubbles lower your buoyancy.
There is nothing about sharks mainly because people it's rarer to find yourself face to face with shark and it's even more rare that this shark will attack. Even if it attacks it's rarely lethal because shark don't hunt for human but mistake human with their prey in 99% of cases
Take a class like Stop-The-Bleed and you’ll be stuffing an entire yard’s worth of gauze into a hole just big enough to fit a finger or two. That is what it takes to pack a wound.
If you live in a place that gets moderate to high levels of snow and you get stuck, cat litter and a shovel can get you out of a lot of snags. You need to dig your car out, and the cat litter can help your tires get traction. Having an extra person to hel push you out is also great.
If you need to bunk down in your car though, don't keep it running. Turn it on periodically and keep the window cracked so you don't die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Keep blankets in your car along with a few snacks and water so you can wait for help. Don't light fires in the car.
If you need to hike to get cell phone reception for a tow truck, make sure you can still get back to your car because that is your shelter. If you're close to the road, make sure you and your car are visible to traffic. Clear the car of snow for maximum visibility. Odds are if you're driving on that road, someone else will sooner or later, so you have more chances of getting help that way. Flag down cars if you can't call for help. Don't abandon the car though unless you're sure nobody's coming. If you have to leave it, stick to the road. If you're stuck on a highway, follow the closest exit to reach civilization faster. It may just be a gas station, but that's better than nothing.
Punching trees with your fists doesn’t work very well
Idk if its in the video but
Myth: run in a zig zag formation when chased on foot by an alligator/crocodile, due to their bodies they can't turn properly
This will get you killed or seriously hurt. First off the alligator will notice and just run straight. Second of all, you would be wasting energy running like that.
The best advice is to run straight and run like hell. While alligators can run 35 mph, they are built to be better swimmers than runners and will eventually tire out on land.
Can we just talk for a second about how RUclips has become so fucked up that people are genuinely using "unalive" instead of the word kill because they are afraid of the crazy...
They’re afraid of getting flagged and demonetized
I'm pretty sure that the one about ticks was wrong. Putting salt, oil or alcohol on tick is a very bad idea. It will make it go away but it will cause more harm than good. Pulling tick out is actually what you are supposed to do. You should obviously learn how to do that and have appropriate tools for that. Medical professionals are actually trained to do that because it's what one should do if they know how. If a tick is removed early and safely it reduces the chance of catching some nasty disease by a significant margin.
We used a lighter on ticks. I’ve never heard of or tried to do anything else 😅
Supposedly, if you paint nail polish on a ticks butt, it will back out because it can no longer breath since they breath through the butt when embedded. It won't happen immediately, so be patient.
I don't know what's up with people putting all that stuff on tics. What I do is a circular motion with my finger over the area, just enough to make the tick roll like a bead. It lets go almost immediately. I always feel tick bites, they hurt and then itch like crazy, and I need it out NOW. I think I might have an allergy.
@@onichan9710 both nail polish and lighter is bad idea. This will most likely lead to tick vomiting its stomach content before letting go. What you should do is use pincers, the same you would use for taking out a spliter, or something similar. Just look for how to remove a tick with pincers on the internet.
A good one for ticks is to use a wart freezing spray, one of the ones you turn upside down and place over the wart.
Also as a note, if you fall through ice and under the water, the spot you fell in will be DARK (the ice will be lighter). So aim for the DARK HOLE and you can come back up the same hole you fell in instead of getting trapped under the ice
So I live in an area heavily populated by snakes like rattlers, water moccasins, qnd copperheads. Most bites occur to men between the ages of 16-25 to the hands and face and under the influence of alcohol.
Story 12: sinking ships
Rising bubbles from a sinking ship decrease the volume of water present in a given area by displacing it with a lighter gas, therefore making the water in that area less dense and 'lighter' and any solid substance (aka body) comparatively 'heavier'. You get pulled down by the bubbles
Wilderness survival depends on training and is specific to the environment. Tips for a tropical jungle are very different from tips for a temperate forest. But preparedness is useful, specially if you do critical reevaluations. Tourniquets and hemostatic bandages are useful, but unless you are trekking in Brazil or Colombia, you will be more served by band-aids and insect repellents.
#1 makes sense. Predator is attacking you for food andnit would rather go hungry then die, the herbivores think you want to eat them, so they respond with deadly force.
Story 15 is saying that you should use it like a fire extinguisher as in do the same motion
with a fire extinguisher you wave it back and forth to cover the most ground as it falls, with bear spray you do the same except to cover the most air as it lingers in the air.
also my friend talked to me about bears (more like my sisters friends boyfriend) and grizzly bears are terrifying. if you have no tools for self defense, you are as good as dead, since they run faster than you, are stronger than you, climb trees and swim in water, and are of course much bigger than you.
So on the snake thing;
My little sister works ER, and she says that if you have some way of sucking venom from the wound that DOES NOT INVOLVE YOUR MOUTH DO NOT DO THAT, it can, in fact, buy you some time.
But it can ONLY buy you time. The venom is already in your bloodstream, you still need medical attention. Also, I’m gonna assume if you do it wrong enough you’ll screw something royally, so like… if you don’t know what you’re doing, maybe just, don’t.
After you get out of water, get dry, change clothes, and build a fire. That'll help, or so I heard, lol.
To put it shortly;
The amount of downward drag from a sinking vessel depends on its size and the speed at which it's going under. Stay on the boat for as long as possible. Listen to the professionals, the captain and the crew, on what to do and when to do it.
Basically:
Cruise ships and ferries (Giant boats); you wait on deck for as long as possible and then get far away when in the water.
Normal-sized motor boats; you stay on the deck/ highest point on that ship until it disappears beneath your feet.
Normal-sized sailing ships; Mostly the same. Stay on board for as long as possible, but look out for the rigging, if caught in it you could get dragged down with the ship.
Now the much longer version:
The thing about ships and boats is; that it's all about size! And the speed of the sinking! The bigger the vessel the more water is displaced as it sinks below the surface and the more drag it creates. If it's sinking really slowly, the water has more time to essentially fill the 'vacuum' and it will create a less strong current doing so.
Ships don't tend to sink as fast as in the movies, especially the big ones. Like we are mostly talking hours. This is why you should wait for the captain/crew's order before evacuating. Sometimes the way the big boats are built, water-tight compartments, mean they won't fully sink, even if it looks that way initially. Stay on the ship as long as possible to also increase your chances of rescue. Any search for survivors will start where the ship went down. Do not enter the water without a lifejacket if at all possible, getting in a lifeboat is even better.
Sometimes, if you don't have a floating device, it might be a good idea to swim back to the sight of the sinking of a big ship a while after it's completely gone and look for floating debris to hang on to.
The best course of action may change depending on your access to a lifejacket or a lifeboat. How fast the vessel is sinking. Where in the world you are and even things like the weather conditions and time of day. If you have the time, throwing something floating into the water and seeing what it does might help you figure out what to do. Is the object staying on the surface, getting pulled closer/ away from the ship or even getting dragged underwater is useful information to have. Keep in mind that a life jacket will counteract a certain amount of downward pull and sometimes bring you back to the surface.
99,99% of the time it's best to listen to the professionals, the captain and the crew, on what to do and when to do it.
Make sure the ship is actually fully sinking (like will be gone gone under the waves) before abandoning it. Plenty of people have misjudged this in the past and continue to do so to this day; it's how you end up with ghost ships. Abandoned vessels drifting around with the wind and current with no people on board.
Sometimes we know what happened. The crew/ people on board were rescued one way or another, or found in a lifeboat somewhere. Sometimes, more commonly the further back in time we look, the ship was found drifting with the winds and the crew seemed to have vanished. Often there are traces left behind, damage to the vessel, no lifeboat, and things missing, like personal effects and the ship's logbook and navigation instruments. Clues that could tell the story of what most likely happened. Often a ship is mistaken for sinking and abandoned as a result. Mostly in bad weather. The lifeboat sadly not making it, but the ship sailed on as a ghost on the waves.
Some ghost ships and how they came to be that way are mysteries, still debated to this day.
If/ when you are on board a big ship like a ferry or cruise ship, do pay attention to the safety video, even if you have heard it before.
It's a good idea to make notice of the closet emergency exit, where life jackets and boats are stored, and so on as you move around the ship. Especially if the voyage extends to after-dark, walking the path to the nearest emergency exit instead of just noting it on a chard, could save your life. Lights can go out in an emergency. A fire could mean smoke too thick to see through. In the dark and most likely panicked (who wouldn't be?) the ekstra familiarity and sense memory of the route to safety might easily make a difference.
A few more water-related survival tips, and generally good ideas since I'm on a roll:
Wear a danm lifejacket when sailing!
- If you are on any kind of hobby ship/ sailing boat/ motor boat wear a lifejacket when you are not below deck! It doesn't matter how great you are at swimming if you hit your head on the way down to the water.
- Wear a life jacket in small rowboats, canoes and kayaks too.
- A life jacket will keep you afloat and breathing when you are too tired and/or cold to do it yourself.
- A lifejacket also makes you a lot easier to spot for anyone trying to fish you back out of the water. They are brightly colored and usually come with helpful things like whistles and light. Spotting someone in waves is hard. At night you can pretty much forget about it without some sort of light or reflective surface.
A lifeline securing you to the boat in any kind of bad weather. (which you should not be sailing in to begin with, pay attention to the forecast and plan ahead) People have been washed overboard by waves before and big ones can absolutely come out of seemingly nowhere.
Launching, especially inflated, life rafts/ boats in windy conditions might be tricky or damn near impossible if the wind is strong enough.
- It might be a good idea to tie it to the boat until everybody is in it depending on the circumstances. Just make sure you can get it free in an instant, so it won't get dragged down with the ship.
Again; most if not all of the time it's best to stay on the boat as long as absolutely possible.
Wet clothes drag you down, so it is often best to get rid of them.
- Unless you are wearing a lifejacket + something made of wool and hyperthermia is a real risk. Wool is insulating even when soaked through but gets super heavy.
Water cools you down slower than air. Get as much of your body out of the water as possible. Anything floating can help, even wearing a life jacket.
Water reflects light; Ekstra sunscreen and sunglasses are a good idea when sailing or just near a lot of water.
If you plan to go bathing anywhere you are unfamiliar with, please do your research.
- Are there any known dangers? Tidel currents, dangerous animals, weather patterns.
Don't go swimming alone!!!
Never ever swim against the current! You won't make it and will just wear yourself out. Wait it out. If dragged out from near the beach, you can try and swim to the side until the current goes away, then swim back to shore.
Keep an eye on the tide and the wind. If it's going/ blowing away from the shore; be extra vigilant in the water and do not use any flotation devices!
- If you do get dragged out to sea; stay on the damn thing! It's easier for rescuers to spot than a person in the water and will keep you from drowning!
Avoid bathing in harbors, you do not want to know what ends up in that water. Just trust me on this.
- If you somehow fall into the harbor, many places have latters placed around so people can climb back out. Taking note of where they are when you first get to the waterfront is generally a good idea.
- Please do not get drunk near the harbor. There are so many stories of that ending tragic.
Drowning people is panicked and will drag you down to try and save themselves. They could drown you! it does happen! Even to great swimmers. So think twice before jumping in after someone. Two dead people are worse than one, harsh as that sounds. It is better to toss something else for them to cling to and hopefully drag them in with a rope. A lot of places have things like life rings placed around for this purpose.
Dry drowning is a thing. It can happen hours after you leave the water. Has to do with infection in the lungs if memory serves. Any water in your lungs should result in a trip to the doctor.
If you are ever unfortunate enough to get stuck in something filling up with water it's difficult, often near impossible, to escape against the current. The best thing to do is stay calm, make use of any air bubbles for as long as possible, and wait for the thing to be filled up before trying to escape.
- If it's a car, kicking out the front windscreen might be the easiest way to get out.
Fast-moving current can knock your legs out from under you, and it takes a lot less than you would think. Better safe than sorry.
On a related note; be careful around dry riverbeds near mountains and canyons in similar areas. Rain in the mountains, sometimes too far away for you to be aware of, may result in a wall of water and debris heading your way faster than a running horse. Look out for the signs in the landscapes.
- Just... do a little research before heading out into nature or really anywhere. A quick google search can save you so much trouble, hassle and even danger.
- And tell someone where you are going and when to expect you back.
And just in case the needs to be said; Do not drink seawater.
Sorry for the rant, be safe out there. 🙂
A small tidbit about fire extinguishers that is definitely different from bear spray, you use the extinguisher on the 'foot' of the fire, that is where the fuel is.
"Now I know I'll die in an achalanche"
People need to learn that there are situations that you can't survive once you got yourself into them.
It's a lot like war: You can't do anything if a grenade lands to you or artillery shell hits your position, but you can do a lot of things BEFORE that happens so it DOESN'T happen. It's about preventing risks or avoiding them, rather than thinking about how to deal with consequences.
Addendum to story 12. If you find yourself on a sinking ship and have the misfortune to have oil in the water….. and I’m not talking about a quart of penzoil. I mean a tanker spill or whatever reason your shit has let loose somewhere between a shit load and a fuck ton in the water, then your chances of getting through that barrier and surviving went down significantly. The viscosity of oil makes it near impossible to propel yourself through it. The sailors involved in maritime disaster the USS Indianapolis died for more reasons than drowning, shark attacks, dehydration or starvation. Those who found themselves diving overboard and into oil flooded seas one moment swam through the ocean until next they hit a wall of oil and they were unable to swim through and escape because they could not propel themselves thru the oil or surface to breath. Just a little FYI incidentally sailors that did miraculously make it through the oil and were coated with the oil whom survived, found themselves having a somewhat easier time with the situation due to the oil on their bodies making for a pretty effective sunscreen.
1:40 for the dear love of god please use an avalanche beacon if you are going skiing, hiking or any other activities in the mountain with a lot of snow, especially if there's a higher risk of an avalanche happening in the area, it is worth the extra money trust me. It also makes our work as rescue much easier if you were to ever get trapped in an avalanche, and I don't wanna hear "but it's only this one time", then ask a friend for one or see if you can borrow it from a place, but you never know if this "one time" is gonna be the one time where an avalanche happens. And even if you wouldn't get caught in it, other people can, and then you're beacon can be the reason another person survived.
Story 6, if your car is on fire or being submerged in water, by all means DO gtf out of there before you burn or drown.
Edit I just read your description of the video and damn y’all / you do a lot of work and it realy shows all the videos are grate
The "cold hands" one is gonna be real usefull when im riding my bike in winter.
about snakes: depends on the area. In Russia, I have heard more than once that the further north the territory, the less deadly the venom of local snakes. In any case, given our long distances and bad roads, often the best solution is to get to the hospital yourself or at least to the nearest populated area.
On the "ships suck you down when they sink" thing - I think it's a bit of a splitting hairs situation. Mythbusters is right, the ship itself does not suck you down. However, the guy who survived the Titanic is also right - the motion of the ship through the water can create currents that can drag you around.
I wanted to add on to rhe one about car accidents and not moving, you could have a spinal injury, and if you move you could become a paraplegic, or quadriplegic. DO NOT MOVE EVER.
11:40 Mythbusters was wrong.
While they succesfully proved that suction provides no real threat during a sinking of small vessels, despite claiming so, they failed to prove the same for big vessels. A sinking object itself doesn't generate suction automatically, but they failed to properly take into account the existance of watertight bulkheads. Watertight bulkheads are constructions in a ship that ostencibly function like walls that stop water that's rushed into one area of the ship from going into another area if/when the hull (the outside of the ship) is breached.
On the titanic, as well as in the sinking of many large ships, bulkheads which still contain substantial amounts of air will be sucked down too, which, when sinking, become low pressure zones sucking in water through any holes in the bulkhead and/or above the bulkhead walls. You can absolutely be sucked down along with the water like what happened to sir. Lightoller, who was referenced by the commenter. He was sucked against a grate above one of these bulkheads. He got very lucky with the fact that the bulkhead underneath him was the bulkhead containing the boiler room, and that some of the boilers started exploding when the bulkhead flooded too much causing warm air to release from the grate with force, temporarily countering the sucking effect and inflow of water.
Suction isn't the only reason why you shouldn't stay immediately near a sinking ship by the way. The commenter mentioned some of them, but one people may not realize is being hit by a high-speed object. If unflooded parts of the ship break off underwater, or large/sharp buoyant items get loose underwater, they may end up being catapulted at speed to the surface. I shouldn't have to say that the (metaphorical) equivolent of being speared and/or struck by a truck, is not exactly going to help your survival odds.
Especially since some of those buoyant objects are designed to be so, such as life rafts and other flotation devices
How to Use a Fire Extinguisher:
RACE : Rescue people, get them away from the fire. Alarm people, pull fire alarm and call fire rescue. Confine the fire, make sure nothing else can catch. Extinguish the fire, (PASS).
PASS: Pull the pin. Aim at base of flame. Squeeze Trigger. Sweep the nozzle side to side until flame is extinguished.
The part op was referring to at 14:06 is the sweep motion.
Ise the bear spray like a fire extinguisher, means sweep from side to side while spraying.
I’ve heard the good ol’ ‘if someone is having a seizure, put something in their mouth to prevent them from choking on their tongue.’
No. Don’t do that.
They’re more likely to choke on whatever you put in their mouth.
It is incredibly difficult to choke on your own tongue, in fact I’m pretty sure the only way to asphyxiate on your own tongue is if it is no longer attached.
A quick tip about avalanches and blizzards. If you’re under the snow spit, it’ll either go left right up or down to show which direction you gotta dig to
I did not know about the staying and not moving after a car crash one. I had a way out and I took it. Totaled my car, but those airbags saved my life after colliding with an idiot under the influence of unknown origin. Did not think for a second about staying and waiting for help.
On the snake one the tourniquet idea is right.. if it is on a limb stopping blood flow can be your only choice to save your life . I'd rather lose a limb rather than my life to poison, also snakes don't always male themselves known and attack out of no where, best way to deal with them is to wear thick jeans, boots, long sleeve thick jackets and gloves.. a snake usually attacks the arms and legs since they are smaller and easier to bite
If you get bit by a snake on the limb you have two options either the broad pressure bandage(not everyone has this) or tourniquet(you can use a belt or shirt if needed, when applied properly it should hurt where the pressure from the tourniquet is applied
Never heard the one about using salt to get rid of a leech, although I did use fire once.
The running away part sounds good in theory, but you may not be able to do this in practice. When faced with danger, humans have three reactions fight, flight or freeze. Most people tend to freeze as fear literally takes over their bodies and survival instinct takes over. In these cases, you may not be able to run left or right when being chased by a car as you focus on running in the opposite direction.
Not saying that the advice is bad, it's very good, but there is a point to be made about when you are in the moment. You can say you are going to do all of these things, but when it comes to it, you may not be able to.
So there’s a problem in my town where Bears will just get into trash cans regularly, and some people have started making sprinkler systems with bear spray. They put a sensor on the curb in front of the trashcan. And if the trashcan is opened, it sprays bear spray from inside the trashcan because they put a little hole in the bottom of the can so you won’t get hit unless you open the can and look inside or stand by the can after it sprays but it has stopped having to clean up trash on the street every day
I feel bad putting salt on leeches since it hurts them, not because of the risks although that is a factor. Those poor things just need food
Fire extinguisher training teaches you P.A.S.S. Pull the pin, Aim at the base of the fire, Squeeze the trigger, and Sweep the area. By saying treat it like a fire extinguisher, he means basically spray and wave while backing up on your way out so that when/if the bear charges you, it will have to run through that cloud. ❤
the snake one is misleading, with neurotoxic venom you need to isolate the appendage so instead of shutting down your nervous system you lose a finger. (I'm not sure about arms or legs though, this is specifically for fingers)
The bear spray one when he refers to a fire extinguisher, he means point it towards your target area and sweep back and forth like you’d use an extinguisher on the base of a fire.
The "fire extinguisher" bit means "spray and sweep." It's not the best analogy, since with the extinguisher you want to aim basically at the ground, but the back-and-forth motion while emptying the whole can applies in both cases.
“Spicy danger noodle”.😂😂😂😂😂😂🐍😂😂😂😂😂
When they say to use it like a fire extinguisher, they just mean spray with a sweeping motion. You're supposed to use a fire extinguisher in a sweeping motion aimed at the base of the fire.
Overpasses are the absolute worse place to be during a tornado.
the one i have always heard is you can extract water from a cactus NO YOU CAN NOT cactus water is extremely acidic do NOT drink it there is only one type of cactus you can drink the water from and that is the barrel Cactus but you in an emergency situation can eat the cactus fruit
agree with the bears I live near the rocky mountains in canada
Still lots of bear misinformation around here. General rule of thumb for black or grizzly bears is to make yourself look as big as possible and make as much noise as you can. Back away slowly. Obviously this is just for an encounter, not an attack.
Also polar bears are the one predator that actively hunts humans, I have never been around one, but from everything I hear about them, you're screwed, you need to kill them.
Source: guide and recreator in Jasper National Park
Remember;
If a predator attacks you, it probably mistook you for prey. If you prove you’re not prey, or that you’re more trouble that it’s worth, it will probably give up.
If a prey animal attacks you, it probably thinks you’re trying to eat it. It is fighting for its life, and if it can’t survive it’ll try to take you down with it.
If it’s a wild boar… good luck, I hope you have a sufficient hunting weapon.
story 5: I'd like some clarification, what if there's fire? do you get out _then_ not move?
13:22 never seen a response before lol
for rule fourteen sure if its brown lay down if its black fight back might be wrong but you can never go wrong with, "if its white dont even try to put up a fight"
Do not mess with the spicy danger noodles ✅
Getting out of a seatbelt when your car is flipped over. Your need to stabilicy yourself with one hand BEFORE you open the seatbelt, or you'll fall straight onto your head meaning that you could give yourself a concussion, skullfracture break your neck or similar nasty injuríes. Don't panic and opend the seatbelts right away.
no one even covered this, so i feel required to.
do NOT hide under an overpass during a tornado. Overpasses act as WIND TUNNELS and will make the wind FASTER. The whole reason this myth spawned was because of the 1999 Moore EF5, but do NOT do it, they were lucky that the overpass had those.. I forget the name but kinda like.. ceiling pillars. Your best bet is to get out of your car, run to the nearest ditch, and lay down in it. It may be gross because of the mud and water you'll get on you, but it is your best chance of surviving on a highway during a tornado.
old comment, I know, but wouldn't the best bet, if you're in a car, be just driving away from the tornado? Not in a straight line from it's path, (if it looks like it's not moving, it's moving towards you) but roughly perpendicular to it's path.
It can move away from you too
I’ve rubbed sand/dirt/mud on leeches to get them off. I don’t know if that’s a good idea but it’s just what I’ve always done
Also, if you’re ever in a crash and you can feel your adrenaline pumping still do not move because if you have adrenaline you’re not gonna have pain so whatever you might’ve hurt in the crash you’re not gonna be able to feel till probably a good 90 seconds later and if youmove you might fuck it up even more
Adrenaline is not what's making it painless, it doesn't really tell you anything other than that you're still shocked and in fight or flight. Just don't move if you're not absolutely sure that you're not hurt. There's no way to tell if you still have endomorphins. Just call the emergency number and wait for help if there's not already somebody there to help you.
I've never heard the salt on burns thing. Sounds like a prank.
As for the snakes, Aussies really underestimate cottonmouths and the modern rattlesnake. You can get bit with literally no warning since people have been selectively breeding non-rattling by killing every one if then that rattles. If a rattle snake rattles, let it live. If it doesn't, that's the one to eat. Also, shovels work in a pinch, but don't unless you have to.
Bulls and Rhinos are hervibories species, and they can ruin your day very quikly if you cross them in any way......
Nice video, but.... How do we know THESE aren't the wrong ones D:
Fun fact: All mushrooms are edible. Some mushrooms are only edible once
More Australians die from snake bites than Americans do, I don't know where he got that idea from. But Aussie snakes are frickin lethal while American snakes are just really painful.
Untreated Aussie snake bites can be 100% lethal.
Untreated Coral Snake bites are about 10%, Eastern Diamondbacks are about the same.
Mojave rattlesnake bites are really bad, with closer to 40% apparently.
bruh the coyote one… me when i’m 5’0