Being "stranded" on a life sustaining and otherwise deserted island is a horrible fate? Where do I sign up for this? People suck. Society sucks. Governments suck. Let me have my island. "observing one may see that Solitude and retirement from the world is not such an insufferable state of life as most men imagine" *Edit: I don't understand how so many of those who responded have done so with false equivalencies and incorrect binary choice limitations. I never said I wouldn't want modern tools with me. By this I don't mean cell phones and PCs. I mean saws, axes, armaments, hammers, knives, fishing gear, etc. I simply said I would like being away from most of the rest of you. So many respondents have exemplified why I feel this way.
We may feel that way but we are unlikely to survive even a year in such conditions. We don't have the toughness or the necessary skills. This guy was a real man from a different era
Being isolated is not a bad thing animals are better companions than humans. Really enjoyed your tale of survival. I could see myself there with Alexander exploring the island & living off the land.
When I was 5, my dad asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a hermit. He laughed and asked if I even knew what a hermit was and at 5yrs old, I told him exactly what a hermit is. I am 65 now and have been a welder for 42yrs, spending my days behind a welding shield…alone. Whether I would have had the fortitude and ingenuity Mr Selkirk had, I don’t know, but that story sure sounds attractive.
Omg, I used to have to do a little tig welding at a transmission shop. I couldn't make it 3 inches before I'd get impatient and start trying to rush through it, and I'd dip my rod in the shit. I was like 20 years old, the only girl in the shop. I guess my manager could hear my location from the other end of the place cuz every time I'd do it, Id be yell ”Adam!” and he'd yell ”fuck off!" 😂
New Zealand only had flightless birds when Maori arrived , they wiped out moa , also no edible vegetation if the white man had not colonised NZ Maori would have left or would have become extinct like mians, Inca, no red meat dead
@@ianreynolds1806 Though just coconut milk/flesh will give you diarrhoea just as a sole diet, which will in turn dehydrate you. So he was lucky having the multiple food sources he had, including meat and vegetables/fruit.
I would spend a month in my camp in northern Maine in the Fall, no tv, no phone no running indoor water, A spring fed well outside, no electricity, an outhouse, it was a hunting/fishing camp fifty feet from a nine mile lake, and I loved it and was sad when it came time to leave, and I usually was there alone. It was a natural retreat from the rat race.
Must be nice to be able to afford to have a cabin on a lake and just not have to work for a month. I'm jealous. The way things are going now I don't think I'll ever be able to afford that. Just work until I die.
I thought of that too, but it was a different person. The guy that ultimately rescued him, Dampier, was the overall commander, but the ship Selkirk was abandoned from was captained by Thomas Stradling.
This is truly extraordinary and would be a remarkable tool for people to learn how to be in harmony with nature and learn to be with themselves. Most people today cannot handle solitude. Personally I love it!
But he was Homo Barbecue, not exactly a peace loving vegetarian. And his mental health was brain washed by the religion of his time. They all were aggressive as possible! You have no idea how horror society was, in those years.
Finding harmony is easy , avoid women as you women consume so much more than the average man...if in doubt look at how many shoes you own... Then come back I have 1 dress shoes 1 joggers 1 boots 1 flip flops. Most of them over 4 years old...
I've seen the movie Castaway several times and found it quite realistic in it's portrayal of someone being stranded on a uninhabited island. Worth a watch! Great true story here, thx.
@@joeswartz8286 I dont believe Castaway is a true story, but there are many accounts of people either alone or in groups being stranded on islands. Some of the stories from the 1700s-1800s are absolutely brutal. The channel Scary interesting covers some of these true castaway stories. The story in this video is true.
William Dampier’s hand is all over Western Australia. He explored the west Australia coast and named several places that still bear those names like Shark Bay and the town of Dampier is named after him. He was a brilliant navigator and naturalist among his other pursuits.
Stranded? Like it's a bad thing eating lobster and hanging out with some pets on an island without anyone around to give me a hard time? Shit, sign me up!
See exactly! Make yourself two or three shelters depending on the weather. You have fruit you can domesticate two female goats so they can give you milk, you can kill male goats for me, you can make fish traps fishing poles all kinds of stuff for food and you have shelter as well who cares if there are other people there? More people there would have been more people there for him to responsible for. Sometimes just surviving for your own self is what you need to do in life. I think he had a great life on this island because he had food shelter pets and didn't have to deal with anyone else's opinions he only made his own decisions. And the decisions he made had him survive. The captain had to go by there from some other Excursion and did not expect to find him alive and rescue him at all. So I think you wanted to be rescued to make sure that he wanted to live in society again but I bet your bottom dollar he spent a lot of time in isolation after this isolation doesn't mean bad isolation means separation from other human beings who are negative and not of your own thought pattern. I mean he had fruit and goats, and milk and cheese if you knew how to make it, would fire shelter, crabs come a lobster. I mean I cannot think of a better life I really cannot. Is this island still around does it still have the same resources because I just want to go live there alone forever. Find my body 20 years later when I'm dead I don't care
@drz400sm5 who needs beer when you can make wine from water, seeds and berries. If there's coconuts there that works even better. Just ferment it for a week. Grass seeds in fruit juice can make some pretty hectic prison hooch. The cabbage palms mentioned in the video contain sugars and seeds contain yeast.
It is significant that the ship that Selkirk went to the island on - and he was concerned about its seaworthiness- later sank. If he had not been marooned on the island he would have drowned
@@rrrogster It is true that there were some survivors eg the Captain but a large number of the crew on the ship drowned. I am convinced that Selkirk made the right call however bizarre the decision may appear
It’s hard for me to imagine it would be tough to be all alone. Sounds like paradise to me. But, ive read of people who purposefully tried it and couldn’t do it for more than a few eeeks.
@joedume8932 - even self-styled loners are usually not truly alone. It would be rare to find a modern loner who didn’t have some contact with the outside world, even a plane flying overhead or the sounds of civilization nearby. They might have a radio, books, photographs, musical instruments. To be truly alone, never hearing another’s voice, only yourself and the animals you’ve domesticated to keep you company would surely test most people beyond their limits. The tenuousness of your existence would be taxing as well. Seeking food and water constantly, maintaining your shelter, clothing and health.
Not having ever heard of this man Alexander Celkirk before, immediately as you began your narration, I thought of "Robinson Caruso"! In your closing remarks you mentioned this as an inspiration for that very novel. Most amazing thing is that I have never, to my recollection, of this man's incredible experiences.
I certainly didn’t come into this world thinking something like this sounds like paradise but with what I’ve seen and gone through the peace of no people around would be amazing. We’re truly ugly and horrific to each other on the daily
Sounds like paradise to me. Anything that makes strange noises can be eaten. Cats for company ,goats, seals, seafood,even rats can all be eaten. Fruit and greens as well. Paradise.
When he was found the Captain was asked if he wanted to eat some goat he quickly ran off to catch a goat the Captain said at the time he had never seen a man run so fast in his life. Survival makes you much quicker if your life depend on the meat. This was told to me by a distant family member.
If you weren't eating carbohydrates you would not smell like body odor also all you had to do was smell your own body odor so you could wash it off with sea water which is salty and kills body odor. Do you think it all is yours there he didn't make a place to wash off with warm water? Is warm water so important that you would give up everything on that island for warm water? If the answer is yes then you probably don't need to be in this comment section. You see we all on this conversation want to live on this island like he did for 5 years. We're not caring about body odor because he can wash it off and we only have to smell our own armpits so wash it off with sand and salt by the Sea and weird enough modern humans don't know that that will take away body odor. So if lack of deodorant persuade you that you should never be out an adventure you should probably just never go on an adventure ever. Stay inside your City Apartment in New York and just don't worry about it. Like don't watch this Channel or something. This guy survived for almost 5 years by himself making shelters and we all feel it's like an inspiration and you feel like oh my God I'll smell like body odor Nature has a fix for that? Like water and sand and salt? People didn't just walk around smelling like Bo like to do in Spain right now. No one wears long sleeves and just roughs it through the 100° weather smelling like body odor on an island in the skins of goats. If you don't like the subject or what happened just get off of here. The rest of us want to live like he did for a long time and we don't care that on day three will smell like body odor but by day 10 we will not have the same pesticides and chemicals inside of us that will smell like body odor and also, we know how to wash ourselves in the damn water. You can wash yourself in water with some salt in it and it will kill bacteria that cause body odor. Fact check that Google it and whatever they are completely wrong and you're on the wrong channel to say oh my God I would hate this so bad. So hate it so bad, please that you never do it and stay far away from any of us that want to do it
As one who lived in Canada's high arctic for a number of years, stranded on a lush, tropical island teeming with wildlife and fish in the ocean would have been a piece of cake for me. In the high arctic, temperatures drop to -50F or lower on occasion, making survival over time very slim.
Good video. One minor note Cinque is pronounced 'Sink'in English. From the French for 5 and the Cinque ports were 5 fortified ports on the southern coast of England.
In a self-centered world, it seems logical to seek isolation. What we miss is that we, just as all those we want to be isolated from, our fallen by isolating ourselves. We miss out on all the blessings that are available to us.
Good story, you better know what your doing if you want to live on a tropical island it can be quite a adventure but also very dangerous, good luck to you! 😊
A very interesting story. Selkirk wrote a book about his adventures, probably assisted by an experienced author. One point that should be made is he and his shipmates raided Spanish ships, as England was at war against Spain, and this was encouraged as long as the privateers shared their booty with the Crown. Since he was a rich man when he returned to England, he began to live the life of a rich English gentleman. Frequently, he found himself wishing her were back on his island living alone. He rejoined the British Navy and was fighting some pirates off the coast of Africa, I believe, when he became ill with malaria and died. One other point. When he was put ashore on Más A Tierra, he was given his seaman's textbook which he studied frequently out of sheer boredom and became a master seaman, more ready than ever when he was rescued.
I read Robinson Crusoe in high school and it provoked fantasies in me to go to tropical areas. I still want to live on a remote island with several women, haha!
It worked for him because he had all that wild food and shelter with warm temperatures to keep him alive. Trust me, if his survival was in doubt where you need food, water and shelter to survive, a bible would have been the last thing on my list.
Masterful presentation. Robinson Caruso is one of my favorite books and I had no idea it was based on a true story but I do now thanks to you. Thank you. I can't wait to enjoy the rest of your videos.
Somethings telling me that after being stranded on the island with nothing but goats as company, his more colorful sailor mates had a different nickname for him.
Nice video. Small point one the ships the "cinque ports" would have been pronounced as "sink". This refers to the south Eastern English ports of Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney and Hastings.
The problem that never goes away are the mosquitos, flees, sand flies, and a host of other annoying insects, like ants, which you can never keep out of your food-stores and bedding. You work, like, 20 hours a day for about the first six months. If you got lucky, and got stranded in April, you'll have plenty of time to prepare for winter. But, God help you if you don't have at least some sort of saw or axe, nor can find flint or obsidian.
I’m so glad he had a Bible : a Bible would definitely be at the top of the list of necessities I would want in that situation. If your a Christian, you completely understand why
The American government would definitely crush that resilience! After being rescued and brought back to American the IRS and the Federal Tax agency would hit you with fines and late fees making sure you would never recover socially or financially!
Be stuck in an island rich with food resouces and sustenance, most specially, no government to tax you. No bills, no bullies, no mortgages and no need for annual estate tax to maintain is like winning one in a lifetime lottery ticket.
Imagine the world being so shit that being stranded alone on an island is preferable to rescue from the wrong group of people. It's a good thing we've come so far as a species! .... oh, right....
Sorry I must have mixed up my dates when writing the script! I've just gone back over my research and October 1704 was when he moved inland on the island, as Summer is the mating season for the seals that overran his beach. It's estimated he built his shelters anywhere from February-May of 1705. Cheers!
I've been to Juan Fenandez Island, and I have also been to the Landogger Trow Pub in Bristol, UK where Alexander Selkirk met Daniel Defoe and told him his story. Just my little bit of travel trivia
I bet if this Guy was aroumd to see how the life of civilisation has gone he would find the quickest way back to his remote Island and hope it would still be remote .
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he had food and shelter and no one else almost sounds like paradise
What a street he lived on !!!! sounds like Quality Street.
Rats liked a wee nibble
Only thing I would want with me would be my dog
Agreed 100%@@dilligaf73
Paradise mate
He has no annoying people to contend with, ample food supply, cats for company, no woman nagging at him.. guys living the dream life
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Being "stranded" on a life sustaining and otherwise deserted island is a horrible fate? Where do I sign up for this? People suck. Society sucks. Governments suck. Let me have my island.
"observing one may see that Solitude and retirement from the world is not such an insufferable state of life as most men imagine"
*Edit: I don't understand how so many of those who responded have done so with false equivalencies and incorrect binary choice limitations. I never said I wouldn't want modern tools with me. By this I don't mean cell phones and PCs. I mean saws, axes, armaments, hammers, knives, fishing gear, etc.
I simply said I would like being away from most of the rest of you. So many respondents have exemplified why I feel this way.
Me too. Life away from this overcrowded dump would be paradise.
I totally agree the problem is no dentist
@@calummacleod2107 Tom hanks managed with an ice skate
We may feel that way but we are unlikely to survive even a year in such conditions. We don't have the toughness or the necessary skills. This guy was a real man from a different era
@@skrayraja What one man can do, another man can do
Being isolated is not a bad thing animals are better companions than humans. Really enjoyed your tale of survival. I could see myself there with Alexander exploring the island & living off the land.
When I was 5, my dad asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a hermit. He laughed and asked if I even knew what a hermit was and at 5yrs old, I told him exactly what a hermit is. I am 65 now and have been a welder for 42yrs, spending my days behind a welding shield…alone. Whether I would have had the fortitude and ingenuity Mr Selkirk had, I don’t know, but that story sure sounds attractive.
Omg, I used to have to do a little tig welding at a transmission shop. I couldn't make it 3 inches before I'd get impatient and start trying to rush through it, and I'd dip my rod in the shit. I was like 20 years old, the only girl in the shop. I guess my manager could hear my location from the other end of the place cuz every time I'd do it, Id be yell ”Adam!” and he'd yell ”fuck off!" 😂
This is an absolutely incredible story; but Selkirk was lucky that island had cats and goats. Some islands, I imagine, are not so well equipped.
You're exactly right. Keep an eye out for my next video as it's a much tougher case of desert island survival :)
New Zealand only had flightless birds when Maori arrived , they wiped out moa , also no edible vegetation if the white man had not colonised NZ Maori would have left or would have become extinct like mians, Inca, no red meat dead
The key though was fresh water streams - without those he’d have been dead in 4 days.
@@RichardS-qh8miif it had coconut trees he would have been fine
@@ianreynolds1806 Though just coconut milk/flesh will give you diarrhoea just as a sole diet, which will in turn dehydrate you. So he was lucky having the multiple food sources he had, including meat and vegetables/fruit.
Selkirk returned to civilization, married and within 30 days he was last seen swimming south.
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I would spend a month in my camp in northern Maine in the Fall, no tv, no phone no running indoor water, A spring fed well outside, no electricity, an outhouse, it was a hunting/fishing camp fifty feet from a nine mile lake, and I loved it and was sad when it came time to leave, and I usually was there alone. It was a natural retreat from the rat race.
Must be nice to be able to afford to have a cabin on a lake and just not have to work for a month. I'm jealous. The way things are going now I don't think I'll ever be able to afford that. Just work until I die.
@dmag1234 Abundance is coming, not in a religious but a technological way.
Near Jackman?
The inspiration for Robinson Crusoe.
Inadvertently left stranded?? It was absolutely deliberate!
I thought of that too, but it was a different person. The guy that ultimately rescued him, Dampier, was the overall commander, but the ship Selkirk was abandoned from was captained by Thomas Stradling.
5 years on a deserted island? Sounds like a great vacation more than a nightmare!
Till you break a limb.
If Maryanne is there count me in.
@@LateBoomer-sl1dkhow many bones have you broken in the last 5 to 10 years??? I'll say none
@@nickhalden9220 One
Modern society make us stranded with terrible jobs and life, escaping it for 5 years sounds great
What a story of endurance and if it hadn't been for him, the novel Robinson Crusoe might never have been wrote!❤
An absolutely WONDERFUL story of survival
Selkirk strabded
This is truly extraordinary and would be a remarkable tool for people to learn how to be in harmony with nature and learn to be with themselves. Most people today cannot handle solitude. Personally I love it!
I likewise find solitary times precious,
I love being deep in the forest,,
Food for thought,,and good oxygen.
But he was Homo Barbecue, not exactly a peace loving vegetarian. And his mental health was brain washed by the religion of his time. They all were aggressive as possible! You have no idea how horror society was, in those years.
Finding harmony is easy , avoid women as you women consume so much more than the average man...if in doubt look at how many shoes you own... Then come back I have 1 dress shoes 1 joggers 1 boots 1 flip flops. Most of them over 4 years old...
It's different when you chose to be alone.
Beautifully expressed
If I can have Mary Ann and Ginger, count me in
I was just thinking that only the professor. lol
Nope. It’s Mrs. Hathaway for you matey!
Just Mary Ann
@@davidabulafia7145 yeah both of them might induce heart palpitations. I had a 3-way last weekend but there were 2 no-shows lol
You greedy bastard! I respect that notion so much!
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I would happily give up the craziness of living in the city for this island.
I've seen the movie Castaway several times and found it quite realistic in it's portrayal of someone being stranded on a uninhabited island. Worth a watch! Great true story here, thx.
I agree,he looks to have an ' island body' fish ,fruits and coconut.
Is this a true story?
@@joeswartz8286 I dont believe Castaway is a true story, but there are many accounts of people either alone or in groups being stranded on islands. Some of the stories from the 1700s-1800s are absolutely brutal. The channel Scary interesting covers some of these true castaway stories. The story in this video is true.
Hanks certainly has experience with islands…
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No. Hollywood, but with good psychological research to make it ring true.
There are now a Dollar General on all 4 corners of the island.
Right across the street from the waffle House.
Starbucks just upgraded their WiFi.
😂😂 I needed this after hearing about the rats.
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William Dampier’s hand is all over Western Australia. He explored the west Australia coast and named several places that still bear those names like Shark Bay and the town of Dampier is named after him. He was a brilliant navigator and naturalist among his other pursuits.
Wow that's amazing! Thanks for sharing I had no idea :)
Yeah, he was a great guy. He was nice enough to leave Selkirk stranded on an island, when he could of just boiled him up for dinner.
Rescued by two ships duke and duchess owned by my great great great grandfather Thomas goldney of Bristol
Wow, what a wonderful personal piece of history 😊
Hmm.. this took place 300 years ago, there needs to be a few more "greats" in there.
Mentidoso!
Cool!!
5 years is such a small time in the scale of our life this was a great story!!!
Yes, but he was in his 20s when he experienced it. I doubt he had the perspective to comprehend that.
And when he got back I doubt he had trouble finding a “companion”😂
No it's not - 5 yrs is a long time - Its significant
Little did he know that on the other side of the island there was a millionaire and his wife... a movie star...a professor...
Hey that's funny.
A professor that could do everything except fix a boat
@@bensmith4563 Funny. Did you know that the actor who played The Professor was a WWII hero?
@@venderstrat didn't know that I couldn't even tell you the name of any of the cast of that show
@@bensmith4563 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Johnson
Stranded? Like it's a bad thing eating lobster and hanging out with some pets on an island without anyone around to give me a hard time? Shit, sign me up!
One man's nightmare is another's paradise
No beer. Pass.
See exactly! Make yourself two or three shelters depending on the weather. You have fruit you can domesticate two female goats so they can give you milk, you can kill male goats for me, you can make fish traps fishing poles all kinds of stuff for food and you have shelter as well who cares if there are other people there? More people there would have been more people there for him to responsible for. Sometimes just surviving for your own self is what you need to do in life. I think he had a great life on this island because he had food shelter pets and didn't have to deal with anyone else's opinions he only made his own decisions. And the decisions he made had him survive. The captain had to go by there from some other Excursion and did not expect to find him alive and rescue him at all. So I think you wanted to be rescued to make sure that he wanted to live in society again but I bet your bottom dollar he spent a lot of time in isolation after this isolation doesn't mean bad isolation means separation from other human beings who are negative and not of your own thought pattern. I mean he had fruit and goats, and milk and cheese if you knew how to make it, would fire shelter, crabs come a lobster. I mean I cannot think of a better life I really cannot. Is this island still around does it still have the same resources because I just want to go live there alone forever. Find my body 20 years later when I'm dead I don't care
@@mindymorgan8479 Seems like you have given this a LOT of thought!
@drz400sm5 who needs beer when you can make wine from water, seeds and berries. If there's coconuts there that works even better. Just ferment it for a week. Grass seeds in fruit juice can make some pretty hectic prison hooch. The cabbage palms mentioned in the video contain sugars and seeds contain yeast.
It is significant that the ship that Selkirk went to the island on - and he was concerned about its seaworthiness- later sank. If he had not been marooned on the island he would have drowned
I think not. Captain Dampier, who left him there,
was the same one that rescued him 4.5 years later. Or weren't you listening to the video????
@@rrrogster It doesnt mean that the ship didnt sink. I think it did. And of course it doesnt mean that Selkirk would have died.
@@jeremyholt4740 thanks for the interesting tidbit. I was curious.
@@rrrogster It is true that there were some survivors eg the Captain but a large number of the crew on the ship drowned. I am convinced that Selkirk made the right call however bizarre the decision may appear
Could of drowned
Thank you. A good retelling of an old tale
If anyone has seen "Alone" you would know how hard it is being stranded by yourself mentally as well as physically. It's no joke.
Or they could remember the isolation of lockdown days. No need for Hollywood when the Elites stick it to us in reality. 😉
It’s hard for me to imagine it would be tough to be all alone. Sounds like paradise to me. But, ive read of people who purposefully tried it and couldn’t do it for more than a few eeeks.
@joedume8932 - even self-styled loners are usually not truly alone. It would be rare to find a modern loner who didn’t have some contact with the outside world, even a plane flying overhead or the sounds of civilization nearby. They might have a radio, books, photographs, musical instruments.
To be truly alone, never hearing another’s voice, only yourself and the animals you’ve domesticated to keep you company would surely test most people beyond their limits.
The tenuousness of your existence would be taxing as well. Seeking food and water constantly, maintaining your shelter, clothing and health.
Only if you can't live with yourself
As a long time meditator, I feel I could handle solitude.
Very interesting...thanks for sharing!
Not having ever heard of this man Alexander Celkirk before, immediately as you began your narration, I thought of "Robinson Caruso"! In your closing remarks you mentioned this as an inspiration for that very novel. Most amazing thing is that I have never, to my recollection, of this man's incredible experiences.
That's what I thought also, Robinson Crusoe.
Juan Fernández Islands consists of 3 separate islands. Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara.
Incredible story,,,,, i remember the Crusoe novel as a kid,,,, thanks for the upload friend 😎
What a great story!
Awesome video thanks for sharing this beautiful place. ✨❤❤🤩
I certainly didn’t come into this world thinking something like this sounds like paradise but with what I’ve seen and gone through the peace of no people around would be amazing. We’re truly ugly and horrific to each other on the daily
One of the best books I ever read
Check out the book "Endurance". Another true and incredible seafaring story of survival.
Sounds like paradise to me. Anything that makes strange noises can be eaten.
Cats for company ,goats, seals, seafood,even rats can all be eaten. Fruit and greens as well.
Paradise.
I enjoyed that...Thanks!
Much obliged for this presentation.
Very interesting and well presented, Thanks.
When he was found the Captain was asked if he wanted to eat some goat he quickly ran off to catch a goat the Captain said at the time he had never seen a man run so fast in his life. Survival makes you much quicker if your life depend on the meat. This was told to me by a distant family member.
What an absolute cad. I'm guessing some of those goats became his very good friends;)
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Cool story
When I was a kid watching TV I remember seeing 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars'!
My parents abandoned me in the wilderness, but I was found and raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. You might say I had a "battered" childhood.
Fascinating. Loved it. Thank you for this gem. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Imagine how good a bar of soap and a hot shower would be after 4 years…
If you weren't eating carbohydrates you would not smell like body odor also all you had to do was smell your own body odor so you could wash it off with sea water which is salty and kills body odor. Do you think it all is yours there he didn't make a place to wash off with warm water? Is warm water so important that you would give up everything on that island for warm water? If the answer is yes then you probably don't need to be in this comment section. You see we all on this conversation want to live on this island like he did for 5 years. We're not caring about body odor because he can wash it off and we only have to smell our own armpits so wash it off with sand and salt by the Sea and weird enough modern humans don't know that that will take away body odor. So if lack of deodorant persuade you that you should never be out an adventure you should probably just never go on an adventure ever. Stay inside your City Apartment in New York and just don't worry about it. Like don't watch this Channel or something. This guy survived for almost 5 years by himself making shelters and we all feel it's like an inspiration and you feel like oh my God I'll smell like body odor Nature has a fix for that? Like water and sand and salt? People didn't just walk around smelling like Bo like to do in Spain right now. No one wears long sleeves and just roughs it through the 100° weather smelling like body odor on an island in the skins of goats. If you don't like the subject or what happened just get off of here. The rest of us want to live like he did for a long time and we don't care that on day three will smell like body odor but by day 10 we will not have the same pesticides and chemicals inside of us that will smell like body odor and also, we know how to wash ourselves in the damn water. You can wash yourself in water with some salt in it and it will kill bacteria that cause body odor. Fact check that Google it and whatever they are completely wrong and you're on the wrong channel to say oh my God I would hate this so bad. So hate it so bad, please that you never do it and stay far away from any of us that want to do it
Great story, thanks and well done
Thanks for watching!
He also had his navigation book with him. Which helped him to become an even better navigator without even moving.
Wow that just shows you how strong you can be without knowing the truth within never give up hope
As one who lived in Canada's high arctic for a number of years, stranded on a lush, tropical island teeming with wildlife and fish in the ocean would have been a piece of cake for me. In the high arctic, temperatures drop to -50F or lower on occasion, making survival over time very slim.
Robinson Crusoe!!
Yes! Very good!😊👍
Was looking for this comment!
You failed to mention that the ship he didn't want to sail on ended up sinking because it became increasingly unseaworthy.
What a fascinating story!
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Sea lions cut him off from his food supply? Heck, they’d BE the food supply. Couldn’t he make spears?
Aren't they all blubber?
@@normanpearson8753If they were they couldn't move, but even if they were blubber is food
I'd hunt a sea lion if I were desperate
Sea lions are the size of a Civic and weigh a ton, I think you're underestimating the task at hand.
Sea lions are fast on land as they use flappers on land which regular seals do not.
Good video. One minor note Cinque is pronounced 'Sink'in English. From the French for 5 and the Cinque ports were 5 fortified ports on the southern coast of England.
Amazing tale !!!
In a self-centered world, it seems logical to seek isolation. What we miss is that we, just as all those we want to be isolated from, our fallen by isolating ourselves. We miss out on all the blessings that are available to us.
Good story, you better know what your doing if you want to live on a tropical island it can be quite a adventure but also very dangerous, good luck to you! 😊
Rumor has it that Selkirk's right arm was very muscular compared to his left when he was found.
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Well he had plenty of time, and nobody was looking either
Well, he was able to chase down goats and have sex with them. He notched the ears of those he nailed.
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A very interesting story. Selkirk wrote a book about his adventures, probably assisted by an experienced author. One point that should be made is he and his shipmates raided Spanish ships, as England was at war against Spain, and this was encouraged as long as the privateers shared their booty with the Crown. Since he was a rich man when he returned to England, he began to live the life of a rich English gentleman. Frequently, he found himself wishing her were back on his island living alone. He rejoined the British Navy and was fighting some pirates off the coast of Africa, I believe, when he became ill with malaria and died. One other point. When he was put ashore on Más A Tierra, he was given his seaman's textbook which he studied frequently out of sheer boredom and became a master seaman, more ready than ever when he was rescued.
Absolutely love your channel and way you speak the story. Amazing, Thank you Sir!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it
I read Robinson Crusoe in high school and it provoked fantasies in me to go to tropical areas. I still want to live on a remote island with several women, haha!
Wonderful and amazing story! Very well told!
It’s good that the narrator made a strong mention of the Bible being a sustaining force in his life on the island -
It worked for him because he had all that wild food and shelter with warm temperatures to keep him alive. Trust me, if his survival was in doubt where you need food, water and shelter to survive, a bible would have been the last thing on my list.
Amazing story about an amazing man - inspirational courage ...
Masterful presentation. Robinson Caruso is one of my favorite books and I had no idea it was based on a true story but I do now thanks to you. Thank you. I can't wait to enjoy the rest of your videos.
Try "Crusoe."
Appreciated the history lesson!
What an absolute gangster. Thanks for sharing.
Well told. Thanks
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Great story!
Somethings telling me that after being stranded on the island with nothing but goats as company, his more colorful sailor mates had a different nickname for him.
Wow! That was interesting! I checked it on Google Map and there is a small fishing settlement today on the East of the island.
Sounds like paradise!
Nice video. Small point one the ships the "cinque ports" would have been pronounced as "sink". This refers to the south Eastern English ports of Sandwich, Dover, Hythe, New Romney and Hastings.
The problem that never goes away are the mosquitos, flees, sand flies, and a host of other annoying insects, like ants, which you can never keep out of your food-stores and bedding. You work, like, 20 hours a day for about the first six months. If you got lucky, and got stranded in April, you'll have plenty of time to prepare for winter. But, God help you if you don't have at least some sort of saw or axe, nor can find flint or obsidian.
Loved it!
Read history for relaxation thank you. I had a rough day today, but this made me feel much better. Keep up the great work again thank you.
Great to hear the video helped you, thanks so much :D
I’m so glad he had a Bible : a Bible would definitely be at the top of the list of necessities I would want in that situation. If your a Christian, you completely understand why
With supplies on ships' lifeboats, they used always to include a bible. I wonder if they still do.
Great for toilet paper.
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Great for lite up my fire !
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The American government would definitely crush that resilience! After being rescued and brought back to American the IRS and the Federal Tax agency would hit you with fines and late fees making sure you would never recover socially or financially!
You forgot to mention The Reptoids.
Right living abroad in a low tax bracket is not tax deductible 😅
That is definitely a true statement
Surely he killed sea lions for food
Be stuck in an island rich with food resouces and sustenance, most specially, no government to tax you. No bills, no bullies, no mortgages and no need for annual estate tax to maintain is like winning one in a lifetime lottery ticket.
The island on the thumbnail looks like some weed
You high ass
Who’s a stoner 😂
Some really shitty weed
I thought it was a bud! LOL
Huh?
Lucky bastard!!!!!
AWSOME story
Thank you!
This is paradise, just need my dog.
Perfick
This sounds like dream minus the rats
Ya gotto eat something…
More like a nightmare I think hahaha
Well, he was lucky to find an island with livestock and cats!
Imagine the world being so shit that being stranded alone on an island is preferable to rescue from the wrong group of people.
It's a good thing we've come so far as a species!
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Yup
Where do I sign up!
Cats come in handy! They pay their way!
I just adjust the play back speed up one and it's perfect man. Thank you. Not everyone has every story. Always find something new. Subbing now.
Castaway was a true story of a FedEx worker in a plane crash was stranded for 5 years.
I heard that story, too. It was about Uncle Shark Biden stuck on an island.
Mentidoso!
A short bit of research showed that the film is loosely based on Selkirk, not a non existent Fed Ex worker stranded on an island.
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At 7:40 it says he prepared shelters for winter in October 1704, but it's the southern hemisphere, October is spring leading into summer?
Sorry I must have mixed up my dates when writing the script! I've just gone back over my research and October 1704 was when he moved inland on the island, as Summer is the mating season for the seals that overran his beach. It's estimated he built his shelters anywhere from February-May of 1705. Cheers!
@@IntoTheDeepYT thanks bro overall great video cheers
I've been to Juan Fenandez Island, and I have also been to the Landogger Trow Pub in Bristol, UK where Alexander Selkirk met Daniel Defoe and told him his story. Just my little bit of travel trivia
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i could do that --- it sounds like paradise to me.
I bet if this Guy was aroumd to see how the life of civilisation has gone he would find the quickest way back to his remote Island and hope it would still be remote .
It would probably have a freeway by then. (And a Walmart)
Definitely an HR office.
Absolute paradise!
Sounds relaxing
Where"s the Movie ??? Excellant tale !!!