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I'm bear grills

I've served with the British Special Forces

I've climbed the summit of Everest

and cross the frozen waters of the Arctic

now

I'm in the alligator infestor swamps of the Everglades

Every year over 60 tourists need to be rescued

from one of the world's most hostile environments

this place is unforgiving

I'm in the Everglades in Florida

over 4000 square miles of waterlogged grassland

every year

this wilderness attracts 6 million visitors

many get lost and need to be airlifted to safety

I'm gonna put myself in the position

of a lost tourist and show you how to survive

in a wilderness like this

the Everglades was formed by a 50 mile wide river

flowing from mid Florida down to the Gulf of Mexico

the swamps

forests and marshes have remained almost unchanged

for thousands of years

and there is no other area like it in the US

that's why millions come here

last year 65 people were rescued

many had become stranded after their boats had

broken down

I'm starting in the most challenging part of the

Everglades the swamps

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there are different types of habitat here

not just swamp

and I'm going to show you the skills you need

to survive in each of them

though there are roads crossing the Everglades

it's so easy to get lost here

and if you do get lost you can die

I'll be receiving some help if needed

from local experts along the way

and a film crew

will follow me

I tell you I don't like this stuff at all

you just can't see

what is in the water

there is water as far as the eye can see

it's up to my thighs

and it's deep enough to hide big alligators

there are over 1 million of them in the Everglades

and the first thing you would need is a weapon

I'm just gonna

cut this pop ash down here

and use this as a stick

and we do is bend it over and put it under tension

and it all come off like that

it's not much for weapon

but this stick will give me an extra 4 feet of reach

to ward off any alligators

just look at this place

it's so disorientating

and I think out of all the wildernesses

I've ever been in

this has to be the easiest place

to get lost in it's just more the same

in every direction

and there's a couple

we got stuck out here recently

when the airboat hit a tree and broke a gas line

and even though they had a cell phone

and could call search and rescue

they had no idea where they were

and I actually took search and rescue two days

to find them

and you can kind of see why

they survived by staying in their airboat

and that's the right thing to do

but the other thing you can do is try to find dry land

I first of all need to get my bearings

this tree here should do

it's high enough it's probably about 40 foot

the top of that

should give me a view over the top

the rest of the swamp

but also thin enough

to allow me to climb up this thing

but there's no way

I'm gonna be able to just free climb up this

but what I can do

is use something as simple as just my shoelaces and

all I got to do

is untie each of these

and then

tie them

together so I've got one long

loop

and

I'm doing a boat so I want to

be able to undo these things at the end

this is going to get really tight now

but

once I've got this

loops of my feet are joined together

I should be able to use these

to jump and then wrap around

the trick

well that will give me enough traction

to go up

and the key to doing this

is to just keep calm and not rush it

and use your leg strength to lift you up

and your arms are there purely just to balance

I get

down the grit quite high up here

and hope these laces are

holding up another couple of feet I'll be above it

that's great

they work perfectly

I thought they're gonna break about halfway

this is as high

so I'm gonna be able to get up this tree

it's getting really

spindly and wobbly

what you'd be hoping for

is to get a glimpse of some pine trees

just because they grow on dry ground

but instead it's just Cypress

and water oak

and that means swamp

and more swamp

without any dry land to head for

you'll need another plan

one of the key parts of survival

is preparation

and having an understanding of the geography

that you're in

and I know that in the Everglades

basically inland is higher ground

and that I know is to the west

and one way I can work this out

is just by using my watch as a compass

and if I just point the hour hand

at the sun which is over there

halfway between that

and 12 o'clock is south

which means south that way west

inland higher ground

is that way

grab a stick

once you've decided on the right direction

it's vital to stick to your bearings

it would be so easy to go around in circles here

these swamps are so disorientating

you've got to try and conserve your energy

this is why

this swamp is so difficult

look

there's loads of

these submersed

logs

and it just makes movies so difficult

these swamps are so forbidding

anything could be lurking under the water

and you have no idea what you're stepping on

I'm in the Everglades

it's home to millions of snakes and alligators

and danger is never far away

look you see that look

see the bubbles coming out of them

now that could either be

an alligator or just a guess is coming out the strums

we just stay here and just watch it for a second

just need to

keep calm and not take the risk

we're gonna back out this way and go round

so just

quietly get back into the water

and back away

this place is spooky

there could be alligators anywhere

the best thing you can do

is to make

lots of noise and

splash around and let them know that you're coming

the last thing you want to do is to surprise one

as they're much more likely to attack

if they think they're going to defend themselves

the trees form a thick green

but then

there is a clearing

with some sort of deep water in my path

exactly the kind of spot

where you could expect to find alligators

there's an old alligator's nest

and yeah you see the slide

this is where this is where the mother would come in

and that's what they did to build up this sort of mound

for all of the eggs that should lay

and she'll typically lay about for about 30 or 40

of these eggs

but only about half of that will actually hatch

this is a freshness

there's nowhere to be able to get this close

and in this sort of swamp

it's just inevitable

that I eventually come across some of these guys

but actually this is just a sort of place

their lights are clearing

which means the sunlight comes down

and yeah they're cold blooded

they need the sun to keep them warm

and yeah let there a few of them

as if they're like recharging their batteries

in the sun here

but there's no way that I want to

be wading across the channel

we need another plan for getting across

a fallen tree provides a possible way across

and you get loads of these

trees falling down in hurricanes

have had like

seven hurricanes here in the last five years

but yeah there's still alligators around here

so I want to

be careful

I'm gonna go for it throw this across

okay if you stay here

dead wood is often weak but this is a Cypress tree

there are no lower branches

and it has vertical grooves in the bark

and because they live in water

the wood takes years to rot

it should be safe

what I'm doing is using my thighs to grip

and then the top of my feet

to push me up

but it's really just about

trying to keep your balance on this thing

because it's getting thinner as I get high

two reasons why I don't want to fall off this

one logo is getting

getting pretty high but also the alligator there

I do not want to end up

as alligator fee

I was gonna work out a way of getting

the main tree and getting down that

I was gonna have to swing over

I think

gotta try and get my

get my leg round here

it's late

and you need to get out of the water before nightfall

that's when the alligators become more active

it's their main feeding time

so you'd need to set up camp

I could probably use this pop ash tree here

it's got enough limbs off the branches

and what I can do

is find a few more uprights like this

lash one like that

and then another one

here

and then lay some branches along it

that will lift me up out of the water

and the other good thing about is pop ice

it's got lots of vine on it

which I can use just as natural cordish to tight with

but make sure that the wood

is thick enough to take your weight

and what I want to do here is just do

do like a simple overhand knot

then tuck it in again

once more on itself and that just locks it

this process takes time

so I'll get some help from the crew

but all the raw materials around me

construct a base to sleep on

it should be long enough to lie on full stretch

and wide

this is one bed you don't want to roll out on

ideally pick straight timbers and remove the offshoots

they'll dig in and make sleeping even harder

there you go

I just need a load of these

across here and this will make a good platform

right that's almost enough

now to pad this bed out a bit

hey look at this stuff this is

this is all Spanish moss

and even though this looks really nice and soft

and you think we make an ideal mattress

it's actually often full

of nasty little chiggers

and chiggers are these

tiny little things you can't actually see

but what happens they bite you and then 24 hours later

you'll start to scratch

and you're gonna keep scratching for days

and I've come across this

before in the jungles of Bleeze and trust me

it's a mistake you only make one

so I'm gonna need another plan

for something to use as bedding

the fronds of the cabbage palm are much better

this palm is a state plant of Florida

and has been used for shelter by the local

seminal tribe here

for centuries

once a bed is made

fire is the next priority

it will help keep predators away

and also dry your clothes

but to light it I need to find some tinder

and once again the cabbage palm is a key

this stuff is great

it's really really dry and stays pretty dry

even when it's been raining

and you do have to be a little bit careful

roofing around in this stuff

just because those are nasty creepy coolies

often live in this from ants

to scorpions

and I've even got a friend

who found once a coral

snake wrapped up in this sort of stuff

so I stuff this in a pocket

it's about any place on me that's dry

make a base for the fire

or the embers will burn your bed

you should let the MUD dry

but you may not have the time

however these green twigs will create a barrier

between the tinder and the wet MUD

it would be easy to think that starting a fire

in such a wet and human environment

would be impossible

but this shows how a little local knowledge

can make all the difference

I really need to watch out for my feet

just in this sort of environment really easy to

get trench foot

and you get trench foot if your

your feet are wet you know often mourn about 12 hours

and it's a mix of just being cold and moist

and what happens

eventually the skin starts to flake off

and it can then become infected

but I really want to make sure

I don't get that so I tell you out here

if you can't walk you die

I'm in the Everglades

and the mosquitoes out here are ferocious

and I have my trans

off for about 10 minutes drying them

and look just in 10 minutes of this

all the way down there

all the way down my leg

same on both sides

out here you've got to keep drinking

but this swamp

is full of rotting leaves

so you've got to filter the water first

there's so much

rubbish floating around

and it's all the Mark and all the dirt

and if I just

get it like this

make it into like a sack

and see this water is now coming out all

nice and clear

and all the residue

and the debris from the swamp

should be all still trapped in here

and just give you an idea

of how much there is

that's what I'm trying to keep out

of my water bottle

the water now looks clear

but it still contains parasites and bacteria

so always boil it

I'm going to continue west

and there's a local technique to help me find my

the secret lies in the water

basically the Everglades

it's about a 50 mile wide river

that runs from the north

to the south but it runs really slowly

maybe like 100 foot a day

so good way working out direction

is just tightest water bowl for the stick

and while I'm waiting for the water to boil

I can see which way

this swings around

that will give me a south direction

and therefore I can work out which way I've got to go

how it should be west

the water flows south to the Gulf of Mexico

after 30 minutes it's moved two feet

and that's enough to show me my way

this water bottle

has swung round

and it stayed pretty level in about this position

which means south is that way

in the direction I want to go

is west that way

walking through the swamp uses up a lot of energy

and you need to eat something

but there is little food out here

but Deadwood is often home to bugs and insects

and there's plenty of that

this should be

quite a good place to try and find something

and look at that

just break that off and instantly loads of these

carb Durants coming out

and if I grab an end of this

and just tip it up you'll see when the cobdent larvae

insect grubs are four times higher in protein than beef

they taste sour and are slightly gritty

they take some getting used to

but being easy to find they're a lifesaver

the swamp is changing now

everywhere

there are small routes sticking up out of the water

it'd be easy to trip over

and spike yourself on one of these

but at least the water is gradually getting shallower

beyond these trees I can see some distant ones

and they look like more Cypress

but a little bit lower down it looks greener

and those are probably pine trees

and possibly some oak as well

but that's good news for me

those trees need dry ground to grow in

so that's where I'm heading

but the bad news is a tall vegetation ahead of me

it's saw grass

all of this all grass around here

is just razor sharpness vicious stuff

but the key to

getting through it is to know which way it cuts

and the secret of it is this

is if you pull up it like this

is absolutely fine

but as soon as you start doing it the other way

look you'll see

look at that

just cuts you straight away

and that's because the tiny little

filaments like little saw

edges on the back of the grass

but how you want to walk through this

is just to really protect

your face

keep your arms up like this and roll your sleeves down

and if you've got a stick

use it like this

in front of you

and as you walk

it will lay the saw grass flat in front of you

see you guys

saw grass holds in the humidity

so it can feel 20 degrees hotter than it actually is

and with temperatures reaching

90 degrees in the Everglade

getting lost in this grass can be fatal

Snow's a guy just a few months ago

who's on his airboat

when it ran aground

and he went off looking for help

through all of his Sawgrass

he got lost got heatstroke disorientated

and within 24 hours

he was dead

and when they found his body

he was just quarter of a mile

from a road

and that's how easy it is to get lost

well here's a river

normally that would be good news

you'd follow it downstream to civilization

but in this case

I want to stick to my plan of heading west

and to dry ground and towards those trees

the problem is

this river is deep

and it's going to have alligators in it

I'm heading west in the Everglade swamps

and dry ground is finally ahead

but there's a problem

a big river blocks my path and that means alligators

and this is as close

as you want to get to one of these guys

they are so territorial

no closer really than 15 foot

that would probably would probably too closer

it's just back up

slowly

okay

we need a come round

alligators can run at

30 miles an hour over a short distance

that's faster than me

if it hisses

move back even further it can mean it's about to attack

the way you find one alligator

there will often be others

to keep going west

you'd have to find the safest place

to swim this river

this is going to be a pretty good place

to try and cross

it's about as narrow as this river is going to get

but also I've got good visibility all the way around

the best thing to do is stay and watch for a while

alligators can stay underwater

the big boy for after 45 minutes

so I'm just looking out for any ripples or when their

eyes and their head's surface

when it gets hot

alligators use deeper water to cool down

they lie motionless on the riverbed and wait

crossing rivers where the alligators is dangerous

must only be a last resort

and never dirt during the mating season

when the males are much more aggressive

in 2006 three women were killed in one week

one were swimming

the other two were dragged in from the water's edge

you should do everything you can to minimise the risk

it is midday which means they are not feeding

you should find the narrowest bit of the river

and keep a really good

eye out for any signs of movement

wait for at least an hour

but remember alligators are inquisitive

and are attracted to activity

so you need to be in and out of the water

fast

local rangers have helped make this as safe as we can

but still this is dangerous

often alligator attacks and mistaken identities

in other words

they think you're something else

and the danger

swimming on the surface with the head bobbing around

they can often think you're like a bird or a turtle

so what you should do is swim under the water

as fast and smoothly as you can

it's almost 0 visibility down here

and it's disorientating

there are over

4000 square miles of swamp and marsh in the Everglades

and being wet saps not only your energy

it can also really get you down

as a kid I grew up on the water

I've always been quite

a water baby but I tell you over the last few days

I have officially

had it with water

well I'm on dry land now

and this is much better than traping through the swamp

but dry land has a whole new set of challenges

out here

I've now finished with the swamp and I'm on to dry land

but here

there are new hazards like snakes and black bears

but finding food will always be a priority

look at this

little tree frog and

just scurring around in the grass there

and you can actually eat these any of these

frogs in the Everglades are fine to eat

there are no poisous ones

you get poisous toes

but they're much bigger and rougher

and as they say

any frog in the Everglades is a good frog

it's too small to cook and the first bite must kill it

otherwise it will wriggle all the way down

bit more calories at least

okay ski gag

there's a pretty clear game trail here

and you can see where

the grass ends

it's back to the bare soil running off into the grass

but where there's animal tracts

it will often lead to food

so I'm just going to follow this for a little bit

see where it goes

animal

tracks are always worth following for a little while

as they can often lead you to water and to food

but don't follow them for too long

as they can also lead you off course

wow

great fruits

yeah look see up there

I tell you finding these out here

is really really unusual

these are not native

to the region

and coming across citrus fruit

in the Everglades only means one thing

that this area here

was probably used as an old seminal camp

the seminal tribe moved here

during the Florida Wars in 1817

the swamp was a refuge against the US Army

and there's an orange tree as well here

yeah a little

unripe orange but this tells me this was definitely

an old seminal camp here

and the Spanish brought these oranges over

after trade

and then the seminal tribe bought them here into the

Everglades

and

quite sharp

but really good source of vitamin C

but this camp

is definitely no longer used

and all these do now is provide

food and energy for all the animals all the hogs

and the likes of me

bit in my eye

this will be the perfect place for you to set up camp

this branch here can make a pretty nice light top beam

and then all I need is a couple of bits like this

either side will make a nice little a frame shelter

lash two supports together at the mouth of the shelter

and once again

the cabbage palm makes excellent cordage

but it has other uses too

what I'm using is just a stalk to the front

to make

the frame here

once the uprights are in place

make and tie cross bracings to complete the structure

then lay the fan shaped palms over the top

and that keep the rainwater off

making fire is always important

he keeps predators away and also lifts morale

this is a four pointed fire

and you can see these four logs

are coming out

and this is a very efficient fire at slow burning

and also it's a very traditional fire for seminal tribe

and they'd use this a lot

when they were being hunted and tracked by the US Army

and if they ever heard danger coming

they could pull these apart

and the fire would die down pretty quickly

and once the dangerous passed

they could put it back together again

and build the fire up

very quickly

looking for food is always a priority

and in a place like this you can't be too choosy

but there is a lot more to eat here than just frogs

this is a turtle

actually a kuta

let you tell that from the spots

on the side of the shell here

and these are really good source of meat

but also vitamins minerals

and salts that are in the actual blood

and you really need some of these salts

just in this humidity

I can eat this turtle because it's not protected

but you must be sure you kill it quickly

and effectively

and that's it

dead

that's his arteries

cat

and whenever I've

eaten turtles before I've always

crack the belly

gutted it

and then scrape all the meat and cook it like that

but in the Everglades what the seminals used to do

is literally just cook it straight in the shell

so like a pressure cooker

as I just put it on there

and leave that for

like an hour that will cook

and then give you a really good dinner

cooking time will depend on the size of the turtle

but one good way to tell when it's ready

is that the shell is brittle and cracks

and all I need to do now is get it off here

and then you see it just really brittle

I'm gonna try this

mmm this is one of those times you can say

it really does taste quite like chicken

see all of the

good fleshy meat here

that's really good meat

a good meal will give you vital energy

and also give you a psychological boost

and so much a survival is about keeping your morale up

I'm gonna continue heading west

always check your bearings

this place can be so deceptive

it feels safer than the swamps

but complacency out here can be dangerous

there's a snakeskin

look at that

that's why you gotta be so careful

the Everglades are unique

they are mosaic of different terrains

all mixed together

each holding its own set of dangers

I've just come into this small patch of trees

they're sunny

very different from everything I've been moving

through before

and these are actually called meloluca or punk trees

and they're not native

to the Everglades

they're actually bought in

100 or so years ago by the US government

in this attempt just to dry out the Everglades

because they suck up a huge amount of water

just one tree like this

suck up gallons and gallons of stuff every day

but really it just didn't work

the swamps are still swamps

and it was a battle that was

too big

for these trees to win

just look at the Hurricane damage

there's been inflicted on all of these trees

it's just been wiped out by the winds

but this is what happens with these punk trees

they're not native to the region

and

they're just not suited to these sort of conditions

look they're much more brittle

and just can't cope

with everglade style hurricanes

and you just imagine the power

of the winds and move through here

when people think of the Everglades

they think of alligators and snakes

but what they often forget

is actually an awful lot of black bears here

and look you can see just on this tree

where black bears come along and just wam

close straight in

see these

and for me

that's just one more thing to worry about

in a survival situation

it's important to eat whenever you can

little and often

because there's only a few feet difference in altitude

from where I've been in the swamps

and here it means you often get these natural little

ponds forming and this one here you can see

is just full of little minnows

there's no way I'm going to be

able to catch with my hands

but I do know a way of getting at these things

a net is a simple

use any young tree to make a frame

if I just bend this little sapling

gently round

to here

and then

just tie this

okay

that's the frame finished

and then if I use my T-shirt

all I want to do

is place this

over the top

let's see what we get

you'll need to be patient

as movement scares them off

and you gotta be really gentle here

not the fright in them off so they don't realize there

being lifted out of the water

some saltwater fish are poisonous

but fresh water fish are all edible

and they're a good source of protein vitamins and fats

that's got a good size one

and really generally anything

under 3 inches is fine always just to eat whole

when they're big in that

you should really be gutting them first

but this is great

they're not much for meal but it's better than nothing

ahead of me now is Muddy Bog

it's a place where the earth will literally suck you in

all of this around here is what's called swamp MUD

and in the middle of it here

is what's known as a sink hole

and these things form when the water

running underground

erodes the Limestone

and then it creates like a pocket that fills with MUD

and with water

and these holes would be known literally to swallow

entire small

off road vehicles

but the reason they are so dangerous

is if you go into them

the more you struggle the more

it sucks you into it

and really if you came across this

you've got to retrace a step and back out

but what I'm going to do is jump in

and show you

how to get out of it

and if I just try and struggle a bit you'll see

how it begins to bring me down into it

and this is why these things can be so hard

to get out of

and each muscle

I pull

create suction that pulls me down deeper

and the technique for getting out of this though

if you've got a stick

is to use that

to create more surface areas

be able to put your weight on and try

and wriggle

your chest onto it

recently a guy was out jogging in the Everglades

and he ran into one of these sink holes

he went right up to his chest

he was stuck solid

and for three days he tried to get out

but he didn't know how

he avoided dehydration

by drinking the murky swamp water on the surface

and on the fourth day he was found alive

completely delirious and covered in bug bites

and then once you're on the surface

just monkey crawl

until you hit solid grab

and then it's quite easy like this

that would be

a really nasty thing to be stuck in

for 4 days

I'm just caked in this stuff now head to toe

and it's making walking hard work

I've also got sand in my trousers

which is not ideal

I can see why Taurus are attracted

to this beautiful wilderness

but if you were to get lost

surviving here would be a real challenge

in the Everglades though

salvation can lie just around the next tree

so if you are lost

never give up hope