All language subtitles for man.vs.wild.s01e09.Hawaii-Desert.Island

i'm bear grills

i've served with the British special forces

i've climbed to the summit of Everest

and cross the frozen waters of the arctic

now my challenge is to be marooned off an island

in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

every year thousands of people get into trouble in these seas

i'm gonna show you

the skills you need to survive

i'm flying over the Pacific Ocean

63 million square miles of wild sea with over 30

000 islands many of which uninhabited it may look like paradise

but it can be deadly and the Hugh surfs unexpected

currents and man eating sharks

make these see some of the most dangerous on earth

if you find yourself in the water

you'll need to know how to survive obvious the same situation

as anyone

who gets in trouble at sea without a lifejacket

all i have is a knife the clothes

i've got on and a camera crew

my mission is to reach one of these islands

and then there make it back to safety

what

the wind sees me

blowing me in the right direction

here towards that island

we're about two miles away

but my maker's son there's just a current out here

whether they can let me reach the island

or not

recently

three children managed to survive after their parents died

when they yacht capsized after spending six days

clinging to the upturned hull

they would then force to swim five miles through shark

confessor waters to

a deserted island they survived for a week by drinking rain

water and eating berries before

they were finally rescued if you're in the sea

miles on land

it's all about conserving your strength

this is about long distance swimming

and the most efficient way is just to use side stroke

and conserve my energy to the surface

going to be surrounding these islands

the pacific islands are notorious for their powerful surf

and that poses another immediate problem

how to get onto dry land

the waves and currents are so strong

it's difficult just getting onto the rocks

these powerful rip currents are created by the hue

surf rebounding off the rocks

150 swimmers drown and rip currents off us waters each year

because they panic and try to swim against the current

and quickly become exhausted

the best technique is to swim parallel to the coast until

you can't feel the pull of the current

then you'll be able to make it to shore

use breaststroke

so you can keep your head above the water

and spot the best exit point

i finally made it but i need water

food and shelter but first

i must explore the island to see what natural resources are here

but this part of the island is surrounded by cliffs

i'm an experienced climber

and there are certain basic techniques you can use here

first look for the best route with the most hand of footholes

use your arms to guide you

and your legs for the power inexperienced climbers tie quickly

because they attempt to pull themselves up by their arms alone

it looks like paradise

but even in paradise

you can't survive without food and water

from this vantage point

i can see a beach it looks like it's sheltered from the wind

and i can see palms

which may mean food

so that's where i'm heading but in terrain like this

you need to be careful the lush undergrowth

could hide deep chasms in the rock

getting down into this valley just be looking impossible

just because all the way round it these sheer rock faces

but what i have found here is this banion tree

and you can see

where the roots are growing down the side of this rock face

all the way down in the bottom

and these roots can provide a way down

this is a nasty bit here

and often this down climbing

is much more technically difficult than going up

just because it's so hard to see

where you're putting your feet and your hands

but the same rules apply you gotta relax

take your time and not move until you're hundred percent

comfortable with your hand and your footholds but i tell you

what you can get it right a thousand times

and you only get it wrong ones

what really matters

here is keeping those three pointed contacts

always with a tree you don't want to be just hanging on one

hand

what's difficult about this

is it

where the where the roots have grown down or the rock

on the actual cliff is really crumbly

my arms are just burning

it's running out of strength then

put them down

and i'm in the jungle

i want to get the beach that i saw earlier

but it's easy to get disorientated in this thick undergrowth

whoa look at this

look at this bamboo

this is just amazing stuff

bamboo is so versatile it can be used for building shelters

making spears

and many other things vital in a survival situation

and i'm gonna take some with me

wow look at this

and the wrist i took climbing down

definitely worth it

this is gonna be perfect

and it's a thousand times more sheltered than where i came

ashore gonna be a good place for a base but also

i should be able to fish here

as well

now the question is can i find water

there are over 30 thousand islands in the Pacific Ocean

and many of those are uninhabited

being stranded on an island

like this chances are someone is looking for you

so to make sure you can be seen by a rescue party

you need to build what's called a signal fire

i want this fire to be as big as possible

but also as flammable as possible

so it will burn really fast and really bright

and i want to start it

just with this big

pile of dead pine needles to act as like tinder and then

so i use these big dead coconut branches and build like a tripod

around this tinder bundle

this signal fire will not be lit now

it will be standing by in case

i see a boat or an aircraft

and then what i've also got here are some really green ones

and if i just lay these around it

these will

act not only to waterproof it

and keep this whole signal fire dry

but it will also

smoke and if something comes over in the day

i'm gonna need that smoke

but i do need to start another fire now

which i need to keep burning constantly

so i can light my signal fire at any time to light

the fire i'm going to use a technique called the fireplow

it's widely used in the Pacific islands

hibiscus which grows throughout polynesia

is a perfect wood to use for the basin plow

because it has a very low moisture content

and it's not healthy

but the sweat drips off my nose into it

i've had that happen twice now i have to start again

so i'm trying to drip the sweat to the left come on

you almost there by creating enough friction

between the wooden handle and the groove

you can work up a coal

that can then be used to light a coconut tinder bundle okay

look the embers going now and if we just

tip this into this tinder bundle

and we shut our flames there we go

we've got fire

staying warm here is not the problem

but the sun is punishing and prolonged

exposure to the wind and rain can sap your health

so i'm going to build a simple shelter

hibiscus is such a useful tree

and it's common

near the shoreline of Pacific islands

you can spot it by its heart

shaped leaves

its smooth bag is also excellent for lashing material

normally

i'd build a shelter right back in the shade

but really for me

the priority out here is that i'm visible from the air

anything flying over at any rescues

what i can do is lashes on

with more of this

bark fiber

as a first layer use dried palm leaves they're plentiful

and i don't waste too much energy

finding them and on top fresh leaves they are more waterproof

survival is as much about the mind as it is a body

and sometimes

it is just a simple thing like taking a dip to lift your spirits

often the reason that islands like this are uninhabited

is that there's no ready supply drinking water

and my best way of finding a drink is to get to these coconuts

and the ones i want are up there

but the only problem is that's for about 35 or 40 foot up

and getting them is not going to be easy

there is a technique for climbing these

trees always keep pressure on the trunk

with the balls of your feet and toes

and as you go up alternate moving your hands and your feet

need a strong inner thighs if you're good at riding horses

you're gonna be good at this

but my thighs are burning i'm only halfway out

Coconuts may be a lifesaver in this castaway situation

but they're also killers

people die every year from Coconuts falling on their heads

and an average sized nut weighing

two pounds can hit the ground with a force of one metric ton

these are the ones i'm after it's

these green ones that are the younger coconuts

and they can take much more water than the older ones

that are lying around on the beats of brown ones also

these green ones are much more nutrient

rich the way i'm gonna get it off

is just to keep twisting them

and they should go any minute whoa

here she comes

and there she goes

awesome

but coming down these trees is much harder

and more painful than you might think

tell you what this is not the sort of thing

you want to do as a bloke

coconuts are rich in potassium

which your body loses when it sweats

that is beautiful

it also holds vitamin c and carbohydrate

so it's a good source of energy

and it's not surprising that the polynesians

call this the tree of life

i know of one of the survivors of

the two thousand five tsunami

who is rescued from a desert island

and it actually survived for twenty five days

living just on coconuts

and it shows just what a lifesaver these can actually be

earlier this year

two sailors survive for a week on an island

after their boat sank

after clinging to floating debris for a night

they washed up on a deserted island

which had no fresh water

they survived on coconuts and shellfish

until they were rescued seven days later

when their makeshift flag was seen by an aircraft

but what if rescue doesn't come

it's day 2 on the island

and if you're in this situation food is now

your next priority

i'm gonna try my luck in the ocean first

i need to make a spear

this bamboo pole is a start to stop the bamboo from splitting

i need to use some more hibiscus bark to lash round it now

i split the head of the bamboo and just ease that down

so that i can carve four very sharp points

the sharper i make these these

it's gonna be to try and catch a fish of some sort

it'll also come in handy if i need to defend myself

as these waters are also hunting grounds for sharks

this is getting pretty sharp now

and that's really about as good as sphere

as i can make for fishing

there's plenty of fish if i can only catch them

but there are risks

some fish are poisonous

others can attack

so keep your hands away from any dark nooks and crannies

because fishes

moray eels will attack whatever comes into view

and don't try eating them either

moray eel can call siguatera

the most common form of marine food poisoning in the us

i can only hold my breath for a couple of minutes before

i have to resurface of all the mammals

humans have the smallest breath holding capacity

but i've got to keep going

and it would give me

such a boost to get a proper meal inside me

that turtle would make a tasty dish but in the late 1970s

they were placed on the endangered list

so i'd only think of eating it if i was absolutely desperate

ha oh

running out of puff down there

but i'm definitely managing to hold my breath for longer now

than when i first started

and that's what i need to do just slowly increase the time

but meeting a shark is not what i expected here luckily

this is a sandbar shark

one of the least aggressive species around here

but he's a reminder that there could be others around

so it's time to get out of the water fast

but i'm not giving up in any survival situation

we've just got to keep on trying and if that doesn't work

then come up with a new plan

i'm going to try a traditional technique

that's used by pacific islanders

i'm looking for a plant that can be used to poison fish

the tuba plant is common throughout the pacific

it has distinctive oval leaves and is found near coastlines

the poison is in the roots

you want to use only fresh small roots

as they are the most toxic

fish often get trapped in little rock poles like this

and low tide

and what i'm doing here

is just crushing up this tuba root to get the oils out of it

and this is so cool this

what you do

really mash it

and then just shake all of this into this water within minutes

any fish caught by this should float the surface

the plant and root system contains rotinone

a natural toxin used for centuries by indigenous people

for harvesting fish

and the poison has no effect on human beings

so the fish are safe to eat

cool well

that is eight that's dinner

now

i've actually caught these fish

i need to cook them and what i'm gonna do

is bake them in what's called animi

and that's this traditional Hawaiian rock oven

and this is something i've always wanted to do

but i've just never normally had the time to spend to do it

properly

and what you do

first of all just dig a pit like this

so i'm going to use my giant nose trees that i made earlier

which are quite cool

and i can just pick some of these rocks up

place them in here and these are now really hot

and it's these that are going to slow bake the fish

once i've wrapped them up

and these rocks will stay hot for hours and hours

and hours and sand is a really good insulator

the way

i'm gonna do

these fish is to ratten them in these tea tree leaves

and these tea tree leaves are really important

actually to polynesian people

they're known for their medicinal qualities

anti aging always good

but more importantly

they're gonna make it taste nice and keep all the moisture

and this is gonna be the very center of what's really

the ultimate steamer

and what i'm gonna do

then is tie one end together

and that's ready to go in the oven

and what i do is use some of these leaves here

just to line the bottom of the oven put the bundle in there

more leaves on the top and then

basically leave it and this in about an hour should be ready

i got weight

while that's cooking

i'm gonna extract some oil from coconut flesh

that will protect me against the sun and salt water

and what i'm gonna try

and do is then crush it and get the oil out of it

i'm never gonna get it looking as smooth as like sun cream

but i just want to crush it enough

so the oil seeps out of it

and it's this oil that i'm gonna use

just to protect me against all the saltwater

chafing and the sun

and then all i need to do is get a little bit of it

rub it in my hands

and then rub it onto my skin like this

and you see the oil coming off

and that's going to give me good protection

my fish should now be cooked

there we are

and i can see just a little fish eyes have popped out

so i don't know if you can pull one of them out

the fisheyes are popped out

and that's the sign that they're ready

but these you can just eat whole

and this is gonna be good you can stay on an island like this

indefinitely

but throughout history

maroon

sailors have often risked it all for a chance to make it home

tomorrow i'm gonna try something

i've always wanted to do attempt to build a raft

and head out to sea

i've put myself in the position

as someone stranded on an island

in the middle of the Pacific Ocean i have shelter

and i found food i could now wait for weeks to be rescued

but if your island runs out of food and water

you will only survive if you can leave and this is

how i'm gonna do it

the ancient polynesians used to travel

hundreds of miles in canoes

it kind of looked like this these dugout canoes

but when they wanted to go

further afield

what they did was add

like an outrigger

so would look like this and this added stability to the craft

but i haven't got the time or the tools to build this

sort of elaborate canoe

but what i have got

here is fantastic resources

masses of Bamboo and masses of lashings

and what i can do is build

like a like a catamaran

a twin hulled version of this

that's much less sophisticated

but it's got the stability

and i can use that to get me off this island

Bamboo has been chosen by seafarers

for thousands of years for its strength and buoyancy

there are air pockets in between the section

joints of the plant

and even tiny air chambers

in the wood itself to fill one of these bamboos

i'm gonna need to build a fire under the base of it

just because there's no way

i'd be able to hack through this with my knife alone

it would take me forever

but before i do that i've got to pierce

one of these chambers

just because these bamboos are in sealed compartments

full of air and if i didn't do that

when i started the fire

the air would heat up and it could explode out

so i need to try and get the point of my knife

or bit of my knife just through it to release that pressure

this stuff is just so tough but i think yeah

i can see i'm just through the out a

bit and that should have released the pressure

so now to build the fire

and i've carried an Ember from a campfire just in this coconut

husk and shit is still going

okay

that's still a light and i can use just any of this

dead stuff here

almost died on me

then i thought i can't face walking half a mile

all the way back to that jungle to get another Ember

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i'm gonna lash

it all together with a bark of the hibiscus tree

this simple catamaran

like design will give the raft more stability

and give me room for provisions

i've just gotten way to get this thing in the water

the deck has to be strong and flexible

enough to withstand the powerful swells and waves

and lift me above the water keeping me as dry as possible

and because the raf will be so heavy and building it

on bamboo

rollers to make the task of getting into the water easier

now i need a sail

without that any trip will be at the mercy of the currents

this is a one part of this whole raft

it is a complete unknown to me trying to make a sale

and this is something i've never done before from honest

i don't know whether this is just gonna work a lot

i'm gonna interweave these palm leaves to make the sail

then build a timber frame to support it

bracing the whole structure maybe that

across the bottom

few of these

and then lash all of that together it just might work

but i don't know whether

it's gonna stand up the rigors of whatever

the pacific has out there

i decide to find out

what the conditions are like further out to sea

and they are not good there's no way

i'm going to be able to get off this island

until these trade winds

ease a bit i mean just look at this

it's just this frothing cauldron of white water

and it's so intimidating to look at

and it's just as far as the eye can see any raft was struggling

seas like this

i'm gonna have to wait for the winds to ease

then i spot something in the water a bottle

this could be a lifesaver

i can somehow manage to get this bottle

to make all the difference with getting down

there is not going to be easy waves like this

can be lethal

recently a family was swept off a shelf like this by a huge wave

whilst watching the surf the couple drowned

but the water pushed their 11 year old son

onto the rocks where was rescued by lifeguards

waves usually

have a regular pattern to them

they come in sets of seven and get bigger throughout the set

so if i'm patient enough and watch the patterns

i can avoid the biggest waves

the bottle has floated into some calmer waters i'm gonna take my

chance

this bottle can store precious water

but now it's time to head back to the shelter

side of the island

to put the finishing touches to my raft

in the open seas

i'll need to be able to control the raft

so i make a simple ore out of hibiscus

i'm threading it together with a fiber for strength

this will also act as my rudder

it's hard slow work but it's worth getting right

i just don't want to be at the mercy of the currents

my sail is also beginning to take shape now

weaving is one of these things you just can't hurry

and it's so nice just that you have the time to sit quietly

the sun's gone down

the fire's going

and i can slowly weave this all together

but it's definitely beginning to feel now

that this could work as a sail and it's almost if every weave

that i'm doing is another step closer ah to home

once i leave i can meet every stranded sailor's worst sharks

wow

that was just knocked under the raft

next morning it's raining

but that's good news for me

a perfect way to have a fresh hour with all the salt water on

that that's much nicer than the salt

when it's raining like this

i really want to try and make use of it and see

if i can collect some water and the best way of doing this

just i've just found this

little bit of coconut bark

and if i place that in the sand like this

with one of these big leaves

the rain will collect on here funnel

down this and into this

and this could be full when it's raining like this

just in a few minutes

that's gonna be a nice cup of fresh water in this heat

you should drink at least a pint of water every day

my bottle will only give me five days supply

that's hard work

but it's in i'm out my sail

and it's also gonna be my sunshine when i'm out on it

looks awesome

i've got to make sure now

i've got all the provisions

i need because i'll tell you what once this baby launches

it's so heavy

there's no way i'd ever get it back on this beach

and i've got to have everything i need forever

the pacific has got to throw at me

as well as water

i'm taking more coconut oil for protection

and sand to polish my knife if i see any ships

i'll use it as a signal reflector for me

this is so exciting

and i will never forget these days

but i just pray now with my whole heart and soul

that this thing works

it's a moment of truth

and if you're not completely

confident

that your raf will survive ditch it and swim back to the shore

but this polynesian design seems to be stable

i'm off and the

winds are much longer being for the last few days

i've just been keeping an eye on them

and these trade winds have definitely died

and this is a weather window i've been waiting for

and i just hope this weather stays until i get going a bit

rough seas will severely weaken my raft

and i hope this calm spell will last

but at the moment the first problem of being out here is the sun

it's so hot here

and this sails give me a little bit of shade

but my main problem

the moment is the amount of salt water spray

i'm just getting over me

and i can feel my skin getting really just dry from it

and this is what i bought this coconut oil for

and this is the time to be putting it on to stop getting all

this rubbing from the saltwater

the best way of keeping cool low in

this heat is just every few hours dive in

and have a dip

you always want to make sure you've got a leash on

because there are an awful lot of stories

alone survivors getting separated from their rafts

but there's something in the water and i've got to get out quick

i should have double checked before jumping in tell you

i'm lucky to be out of that water and normally

the sharks on the surface you can see their dorsal fins

but these ones are deep and i have no

idea that anywhere near when i've got in

whenever you're swimming off a raft

you always want to keep your clothes and your shoes on

and statistically

whenever people have been in the seeing groups is

the unclothed ones that are often attacked first

this is

because sharks can confuse the flickering sunlight on the skin

for fish wow

look at this fella look whoa

and these tiger sharks

have the most damaging bike for any shark in the sea

look at this guy

and if you are in the water and being attacked the best thing

you can do is yell slap the water and punch it on the nose

or go for the gills

as those are the most sensitive bits of a shark

and is just the scene people stranded at sea

most fear and it's so hard to keep calm

i've built a raft and left the island to show you

how to survive at sea

but now i'm facing a situation faced by many maroon sailors

that one's knocked under the raft

we see bloody things will go away now

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great whites aside the tiger shark is responsible

for more recorded human deaths than any other shark

holy smoke this is not good

but soon they get bored of me and leave

it makes me wonder

how people have survived being adrift for week

after week in these vast oceans

it takes willpower and resolve simply to keep your hopes alive

this is why it's so important to keep yourself busy and do all

you can to find more water and food

time for a bit of fishing

and i've got

a fish hook made from a one of fishbones of the fish

i caught on the island

a little bit of bait

a line made out of the hibiscus fiber

and then a bit of bamboo for the rod fingers crossed

i gotta something

and just settle back and see what we get

hey

i've got something here

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wow

look at this safe

this actually little surgeon fish

these are quite a nasty

little brutes and you can see why look at these look

these are razor sharp all the way down here

that little knife life

thing there and another blade looking thing there

and these are so sharp

these are cut of vein easily if you picked it up wrong

and what i'm gonna do is open it up

and

you can see the spine of it actually here

and what i want is to get the fluid out of that

not much but it's better than nothing

one of the most incredible sea survival stories

i've ever heard is of a couple called the bailey's husband

and wife

who were hit by a whale in there

in their yacht

and they ended up in their life Rafa it's on

like well over a hundred days

and they lived off just turtle raw

turtle seabirds and

fish and they

all they had was like a few safety pins and their bare hands

and they eventually rescued by a little fishing boat

but they their clothes are like you know

literally rotted on them and their terrible sunburn

and sores all over them

but they were alive

it's over 100 degrees Fahrenheit

but with the reflection of the sun and the water

it feels like even more and without shade

i'm now risking sunstroke

the pacific is a vast ocean

but it also has busy shipping lanes however

these ships probably won't see you unless

you can draw their attention first

there's a boat of hurry bar for about four or five miles away

and i've just seen the top of it

when it stops dipping in and out of the cross

it is definitely a boat

it's gonna use this knife

just in a bit of sand

just to brighten it up

and use this to signal with and signaling like this

you can be seen up about 10 miles away really well

and there's actually

a guy who was rescued from over a hundred miles away

just amusing a reflector like this and all you do

is get your v of your finger

and then glin this in the sun

put it on the object and just bring it in and out of here

i'm prayed like anything

so

there's someone on deck watching

that definitely that definitely turn me

even though this might look

idyllic it'd be much harsher than i ever imagined

and i've gained definitely an understanding of

just how unforgiving the sea can be

but also how heroic some of the people are who have survived it

and it's almost like one of those places

you can't appreciate it

until you've actually experienced it

but for me it is definitely time to go home