How to Find Water in the Desert, Part 2

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025

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  • @ryobukai74
    @ryobukai74 11 лет назад +38

    You should also mention the need to carry a small amount of salt. Most people are so focused on drinking water they forget to consider if there is no salt in your system, your body will not be able to utilize the water you ingest. Its happened to me more then once southern California desert area. Especially if there's very little food intake.I could drink all day and I would still feel like I wasn't getting any water and I would urinate every 10 min.

    • @JoeyCha
      @JoeyCha 11 лет назад +2

      Actually, some people found a tribe that had no idea what the heck salt was, and they were living off perfectly fine. Also, salt makes you thirstier...

    • @fmlAllthetime
      @fmlAllthetime 9 лет назад +6

      Joey Cha Different ethnicities adapt to their environment differently. Hence why northern Europeans are rarely lactose intolerant, and many Africans have sickle cell (helps to not get malaria). It might be in their genome, this doesn't help others though.

    • @hardworkingamerican8847
      @hardworkingamerican8847 6 лет назад +5

      fmlAllthetime That comment will melt a few snowflakes , we are all the same everyone's equal and everyone wins a trophy

    • @patriotamazon189
      @patriotamazon189 5 лет назад +3

      I passed out in the grocery store. I felt like I had noodles for legs. The pharmacist poked some salt tabs in my mouth. I lived!

    • @bmphil3400
      @bmphil3400 5 лет назад +1

      I carry electrolyte tabs such as nuun any time I am going to be in the outdoors and sweating......

  • @m.k.7199
    @m.k.7199 5 лет назад +1

    When you put the chlorine in the water, that is the time to disinfect the threads. You can then rinse the threads before drinking. Cloth over the mouth of the canteen when filling keeps out the debris and sediment. And if your going to carry the tube, carry a small filter. Excellent videos!

  • @benjaminsovdottir4627
    @benjaminsovdottir4627 6 лет назад +8

    Another reason not to camp in a body of water is because in some areas, where wild life is bigger, it’s possible for predators to wander into your camp. Either way great vid 👍

  • @jamesteffertiller7813
    @jamesteffertiller7813 9 лет назад +21

    cover the mouth of your canteen with several layers of folded bandana and face the mouth downstream to minimize sediment.

  • @bardos
    @bardos 7 лет назад +3

    Beautiful. I share your fascination for ancient cultures

  • @qinarizonaful
    @qinarizonaful 5 лет назад +2

    Hello Jeff, great video. Kudos! Making these is not easy. I wanted to point out that at 10:10,when you found a trickle, using your knife sheath was interesting, but you might get tanning chemicals in the water. Maybe not important in survival. I was surprised that you didn't say to dig a hole in the sands at that point, possibly line with trash can liner and collect that puddle that was forming at the base of Rock and sand on the video. In my estimate, you were saved at that instant. That puddle looks to be a liter or more per hour. Keep up the "inclusive" videos!!! Great asides on culture!

  • @matthewjeschke
    @matthewjeschke 4 года назад +1

    Put the wet bandanna around your neck. It will help keep you cool while it dries off. I typically wet a bandanna when I get a chance in the desert, then put it around my neck.

  • @chadschulze7892
    @chadschulze7892 Год назад

    i think u saved my life for a future time....thx bud.

  • @sunny4lady
    @sunny4lady 6 лет назад +7

    After watching many of these survival videos, I wonder why schools dont teach you basic survival skills.

    • @bmphil3400
      @bmphil3400 5 лет назад

      They really should at least as an elective......

    • @whateverwhatever7210
      @whateverwhatever7210 2 года назад +1

      Because our society is only concerned about skills geared towards jobs which it relies on. So today you have a lot of STEM classes and lessons. Institutional education is really a joke that is less about the individual and more about the needs of the job market.

    • @MustObeyTheRules
      @MustObeyTheRules Год назад +2

      They want you dependent on their little safety bubble they built

  • @questioneverything2
    @questioneverything2 4 года назад

    Thanks for the video... nicely done.

  • @St4the
    @St4the 6 лет назад +2

    The intro was dream theatre on the backs of angels ironically right after noticed his tattoo another metalhead survivalist 🤘

  • @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651
    @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651 6 лет назад +1

    ALL THOSE FRESH CHEM TRAILS...YUMMY!

  • @mokin-rui717
    @mokin-rui717 11 лет назад +2

    Demonstrating digging down to cooler earth for your lean-to, would be good, you can do that in another. Anyway, as always, keep up the good work my kid is learning a bunch.

  • @aqualung2092
    @aqualung2092 7 лет назад +11

    If bees are attracted to your desert bag (flax bag) forget about trying to find more water on the surface. This means that even their water supply is gone. This is not a good sign.

  • @098317
    @098317 11 лет назад +3

    There might have been a little sediment in that stream but you could have drunk it without suffering any harmful effects. I guess there were no towns, cities or farms upstream. No beavers, No huge herds of bison. And the UV would have taken care of most of anything else. You soon get used to the taste. Depending on the minerals in the water it may cause diarrhoea in folk used to town supplies. But you won't die.

    • @richelieumazarin7127
      @richelieumazarin7127 10 лет назад +3

      The only time it's ok to say "i have diarrhea," is when you're playing scrabble.

    • @bmphil3400
      @bmphil3400 5 лет назад +2

      Diarrhea in the desert can kill you......you lose moisture very very fast ......

  • @oldntatted
    @oldntatted 11 лет назад +1

    From a fellow Arizonan. I enjoy all of your videos, keep up the good work.
    Thanks ONT

  • @jrocket092887
    @jrocket092887 11 лет назад

    Excellent video and attention to details. A stream is such a lucky and unusual find in our area!

  • @williamm4753
    @williamm4753 11 лет назад

    Well done Jeff ,always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing the Knowledge.

  • @Naturliebe
    @Naturliebe 11 лет назад +1

    Excellent and very informative series, Jeff.
    Thanks for your knowledge. All the best.
    Greetings Tito

  • @MichaelMixson
    @MichaelMixson 8 лет назад +2

    The trick with your knife sheath was great!!!!

  • @es702rider
    @es702rider 6 лет назад +3

    Man i live in las vegas and our Mojave desert is nothing like your videos. I see lots of green. Veggition. Tons of green. I live in sloan canyon not far from spring mountains only natural trees miles

  • @walterpalmer2749
    @walterpalmer2749 9 лет назад +4

    Chemically, I like to carry Lugol's solution - 5% version - Iodine/ potassium Iodide- for chemical purification. One can argue which chemical is best to use, and for me, a much better taste than Chlorine. Boiling is best, as I understand, but chemical with a survival straw (lower the micron the better) will take care of a lot.

    • @trevorh6438
      @trevorh6438 8 лет назад +1

      I agree with lugols solution. Good for water purification and disinfecting wounds. Its also not a pure poison like bleach and chlorine, iodine is actually used by your thyroid.

    • @bmphil3400
      @bmphil3400 5 лет назад +1

      I have used iodine in some BAD places..... Guyana and Panama......they are saying now that iodine is not effective on cryptosporidia.....but I have had no bad effects.....maybe I have been lucky.....they are saying now that chlorine dioxide is better and kills more pathogens.....the drops work faster than the tabs.......

  • @cliffmorgan31
    @cliffmorgan31 6 лет назад +2

    After adding bleach drops, I would shake the container to mix it into all parts of the container for the time it sits.

  • @BartonThom
    @BartonThom Год назад

    I would go camping with you any time.

  • @LibertyLeslie
    @LibertyLeslie 11 лет назад

    Love your videos.... thanks

  • @walterpalmer2749
    @walterpalmer2749 9 лет назад

    A scarf or bandana can be an overlooked part of your dress or kit in your travels or camping. It serves many functions.

  • @luispineda6055
    @luispineda6055 6 лет назад +1

    Is that in desert hot springs

  • @rjohnson2916
    @rjohnson2916 6 лет назад +1

    Wouldn't a person want to be about 50-100 yards away from the stream, so it would be easier to get water and maybe catch minnows and crawfish to eat? Would that stream have small minnows and crawfish in it?

  • @cr0cket01
    @cr0cket01 11 лет назад +2

    why did you have canteen mouth facing upstream instead downstream? you my looked like a fool with that long straw until i thought about how you can hold it below the surface but not touching bottom of that hole, and it be daft to cut it, what about high water short distance things li9ke bees and ants for water location. nice vid

  • @chuckthebull
    @chuckthebull 5 лет назад

    What do you think of life straw filters?

    • @SonoranAstro
      @SonoranAstro 5 лет назад +1

      Chuck Itall i got one, i like it. Idk about a live situation in the desert though. It takes a lot of water to fill it and suckstart that thing

    • @chuckthebull
      @chuckthebull 5 лет назад +1

      @@SonoranAstro Ah interesting, i have seen a few other people using a filter element in buckets. but out in the middle of nowhere you might not find a bucket. Making sand filters is an interesting idea too. my concern is making sure i'm not ingesting bacteria and virus..getting sick in a survival situation could mean life and death.

  • @MrACA23
    @MrACA23 8 лет назад +5

    the thing is sir if I am lost in that desert I won't find any water you drank them all

  • @a.k.5945
    @a.k.5945 4 года назад

    Just an FYI - bleach degrades over time. If you have it stashed in your survival bag be sure to write a date on it and change it out for fresh bleach occasionally. Also, bleach degrades faster when diluted, so keep that in mind. Here's a link that tells more about bleach degrading. www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20060213/bleach.html

  • @WitneyJJ
    @WitneyJJ 11 лет назад

    you should do a review on the back pack u use

  • @fiestacranberry
    @fiestacranberry 10 лет назад

    Hi Jeff,
    I enjoy your videos. Where is the stream in this video?

  • @flowrider5082
    @flowrider5082 7 лет назад

    Can you tap any trees for water? The same method used to gather maple syrup.

  • @jason135791113
    @jason135791113 10 лет назад

    might carry or make a short straw instead of sucking through 4' of tube when water access is easy. Great tips!

    • @toddolson573
      @toddolson573 8 лет назад

      Ya, that was an over kill, I seen his head start to cave in from suckin so hard.

    • @clarkeugene5727
      @clarkeugene5727 5 лет назад

      In my humble opinion, It would not be beneficial to cut the tube because that full length may be needed in another situation. Keep it long as is. However, it would be easier to suck through the tube at full length if he had kept it at ground level. Just merely lay down on the rock and prevent having to fight gravity by standing up.

  • @williammccaslin8527
    @williammccaslin8527 5 лет назад

    Rain runoff can still have mouse turds washed into it, it's not guaranteed to be clean at all, your risking ALOT this way, unless your within 48 hrs of rescue. If you would have put a bandana over your bottle before you filled it, no sediment

  • @Latrocinium086
    @Latrocinium086 9 лет назад

    Could you tap the mesquite or cottonwood trees?

  • @reverendsaltine6852
    @reverendsaltine6852 5 лет назад

    THIS SHOULD SAY “in the Sonoran desert,” because here in New Mexico there isn’t SHLT! No mountains, hills, cliffs, trees, NOTHING. Flat scrub is all we have around Albuquerque New Mexico. No water. Even the river Puerco just due west of ABQ, NM, is bone dry

  • @TheLoobis
    @TheLoobis 7 лет назад

    11:00 Are you pointing at the Mountains?

  • @Germfish
    @Germfish 11 лет назад

    I live in the same area as you, well within a hundred mile radius atleast lol. I'm in the Antelope valley.

  • @johnbryant38
    @johnbryant38 7 лет назад

    Are you near the Barstow or Victorville area?

    • @clarkeugene5727
      @clarkeugene5727 5 лет назад

      I live in Victorville. I believe he is located around Yucca Valley.

  • @lonedobie1
    @lonedobie1 8 лет назад +2

    coffee filter to get the mud out would help !

  • @chriswilds5787
    @chriswilds5787 10 лет назад +6

    8:30 are you even still in a desert?

    • @PrimitiveLifeways
      @PrimitiveLifeways  10 лет назад +4

      Yes, it is a part of the Mojave Desert

    • @chriswilds5787
      @chriswilds5787 10 лет назад

      oh cool

    • @Alphatechguru
      @Alphatechguru 8 лет назад

      +Primitive Lifeways I'm from way outside of Lancaster, DelSur (in the 60s) and beyond,, and well, itz been a whiles, but We in the desert got a lot of survival tricks in Grade school that really bailed a lot of us outta trouble!! Great Stuff!

    • @peachykeko2855
      @peachykeko2855 4 года назад

      @@PrimitiveLifeways where exactly?

  • @tonik2734
    @tonik2734 6 лет назад

    So you minimize sediment and then add a toxic poison to the water. Taking the time to boil would be better wouldn’t it?

  • @jeannelins3221
    @jeannelins3221 8 лет назад

    I thought survival in the desert would be hard but I bet even I could do that now

  • @TreasureGeo
    @TreasureGeo 7 лет назад +1

    Now try and find some water out there in the dry season.

    • @PrimitiveLifeways
      @PrimitiveLifeways  7 лет назад +2

      Glad you mentioned that! I have two more videos being released in the upcoming two weeks and that is one of them! Right now it is so dry we are under fire restrictions.

  • @whitetiger432
    @whitetiger432 7 лет назад

    In your how to find water in the desert part 1 at minute 7:14 these rocks that you're squatted by or megaliths they were set by men...

  • @galuyasdi
    @galuyasdi 4 года назад

    Are you aware chlorine displaces iodine in the system, if continued for long enough you run the risk of heart problems. A lot of young (20 year old plus or minus) men returned from Vietnam and had heart attacks and the authorities determined chlorine to be the reason. It was covered up.

  • @ghostsamuria
    @ghostsamuria 5 лет назад +2

    I'd still attempt to boil any water found due to Giardia or other pathogens

  • @lochlanbrierley
    @lochlanbrierley 5 лет назад

    don't Know Why But every now and then you remind me of Danny McBride

  • @matthewjeschke
    @matthewjeschke 4 года назад +1

    are you sure that's water? kind of looks like chocolate milk?

  • @spotdogs1
    @spotdogs1 10 лет назад +5

    Coffee filters and a film canister filled with Tang or Koolade.

  • @10susan10
    @10susan10 11 лет назад

    Why don't you carry a PLB?

  • @talusranch990
    @talusranch990 6 лет назад

    4:44 after the preaching

  • @mokin-rui717
    @mokin-rui717 11 лет назад

    Don't you need to shake it and stir it up a little?

  • @johnhini7177
    @johnhini7177 6 лет назад +1

    much imp info bless u well done..well done thank u thank u imp info Ggod bless all u do..i expect rappppture sep 2019 on new moon..ask boss for a ticket so not get left behind in histories wost 7 yrs caos.. 60% die..take care be safe thank u for sharing..

  • @rontom-l4h
    @rontom-l4h 7 лет назад +1

    i would have put a cloth, filling it up, and you did not find water, it was a stream

  • @richardtaihitu6157
    @richardtaihitu6157 3 года назад

    part 1 you just talk but fail to find water from underground hahaha

  • @webo3000
    @webo3000 9 лет назад

    if the advert is 5 hour energy I advise to watch the advert at start

  • @strykerhalo
    @strykerhalo 10 лет назад

    can't you just stick your aquarium tube, and syphon the water into your canteen?

  • @wanaraz
    @wanaraz 10 лет назад +3

    These long commercials suck!

  • @shipwrightball4433
    @shipwrightball4433 3 года назад

    Theres water to your left the tree your sitting next to

  • @moemuggy4971
    @moemuggy4971 8 лет назад

    Did you just tell us it's Ok to drink straight from a mud hole with a piece of tubing??

  • @kentthetroll7759
    @kentthetroll7759 7 лет назад

    Tip:A dirty water can save ur life too

  • @73gmiller
    @73gmiller 4 года назад

    You drink from the spicket do ya

  • @ABC-cd9qq
    @ABC-cd9qq 7 лет назад

    Would be hot if my partner wouldn't die after 2 seconds in the wilderness xD

  • @vladimirvalenwood3334
    @vladimirvalenwood3334 5 лет назад

    In a survival situation in a survival situation in a survival situation... how many survival situations have you been in? 0. Sorry but I just get the kick out of when people play Boy Scout they say I'm in a survival situation LOL you would probably shit and piss yourself if you ever were

  • @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651
    @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651 6 лет назад

    32 OZ!

  • @reverendsaltine6852
    @reverendsaltine6852 5 лет назад

    PS: in this one he’s in the Mojave Desert. If he was west or east of ABQ NM he’d be dead.

  • @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651
    @survivalhealthandhealingtv5651 6 лет назад

    JUST USE COLLOIDAL SILVER! MUCH SAFER!

  • @MattyMadDog10
    @MattyMadDog10 11 лет назад

    First

  • @Treemaster16
    @Treemaster16 11 лет назад

    Helle temagame is his knife

  • @opt4heavenhearts4thehomele27
    @opt4heavenhearts4thehomele27 Год назад

    Next time close up the hole u dig by the tree roots thx

  • @eqlzr2
    @eqlzr2 4 года назад

    I don't think I'd be certain about that puddle in the top of that rock being completely clear of pathogens. That rock more than likely has some bacteria on it, some possibly harmful. I'm immunocompromised, and I wouldn't dare drink from that. You may get by with it if you have a healthy immune system, but I've pulled water samples out of places just like that and seen microbes and bacteria in it under a microscope. So, I would still treat it to be on the safe side. Many thanks.

    • @lorus511
      @lorus511 2 года назад

      I was thinking similarly. Could you not chuck in a water purification tablet, give it some time to work then come back and drink it?

  • @InfoJunky
    @InfoJunky 8 лет назад +4

    This is nonsense he found no water

  • @moekhn
    @moekhn 5 лет назад

    Lol fastest way to find water is in the plants. Tie a plastic bag over the most green ppants you can and wait over night you will have a cup of water that is already clean to drink

  • @shahriariran44
    @shahriariran44 5 лет назад

    Go to a reall desert where your looking with all does trees and a river anyone can find water .

  • @andyb.1026
    @andyb.1026 6 лет назад

    This Clown has not the faintest idea

  • @dragonaasheg
    @dragonaasheg 6 лет назад +2

    it is not A Desert man

  • @toddolson573
    @toddolson573 8 лет назад

    I'm sure going to hike 1& 1/2 miles every time I need water, really a total of 3 miles- how insane is this guy he must be dehydrated cause his brain isn't workin so well. Move de camp closer to de source of water fool, and its most likely cooler and on and on..

  • @hawkeye0248
    @hawkeye0248 10 лет назад

    This area is not a desert - not even close.

  • @mokin-rui717
    @mokin-rui717 11 лет назад

    Don't you need to shake it and stir it up a little?