Honestly my favorite part was the guy's PP at the beginning

Thanks this is very useful, I currently am stuck on a desert island and this video has saved me many times

How to survive in a deserted island: 1:Have fun and be yourself❤

I was marooned on a desert island last week and after setting up a signal fire I was able to get broadband. After that I made a simple computer from coconut shells and sea anemones powered by jellyfish. I came across this video on you tube, it gave me so many ideas on how to survive I could have lived quite comfortably for who knows how many weeks. I was actually in the process of installing solar panels made from very thin sheets of volcanic glass and palm leaves when a passing ship noticed the 10 metre seawalls I'd been building around the island as part of a futureproofing initiative for the rising sea levels. They came ashore and found me, thank god.

4:46 General Survival Tips 8:15 Finding Water 14:26 Survival Nutrition 20:16 Seafood 25:53 Eating Plants 28:35 Shelter 32:07 Fire 35:39 Cooking Food 38:11 Smoke Signalling 39:27 Making Tools 39:24 Escaping The Island?

I can’t wait to be stuck on an island, use this advice to stay alive for years, completely lose sanity, and when I’m rescued years later and am asked how I survived I’ll just scream “HORSES”

I love how this looks like an analog horror series but it’s actually just a super chill guy giving good advice

I love the work training style of this video. I feel ready to begin my career as a “lost on a tropical island” employee.

"The beach is dangerous! The sun will give you sun poisoning" and "avoid the sun!" In flashing text with this video style really gives me analogue horror vibes

As someone that never goes on overseas transport, and barely leaves my house, I found this guide very informative and helpful.

Seriously, I've tried to explain the importance in survival situations of vitamins and minerals etc. I read once where a man survived 90 days at sea. He had cans of water. But he started craving various organs and parts of the fish he'd catch such as eyes and liver. Somehow his mind told his body what to eat. He survived. Listen to your body.

This video is so soothing to me. It makes me feel that even if I was stranded on a desert island, everything will be fine.

Also, dried coconut husks from the tree or from the fruit are incredibly useful for fire kindling. Also, coconuts do not have milk in it, it has liquid endosperm i.e. coconut water and hard'jellly like endosperm. The dried coconut mentioned before hardens the 'coconut endosperm' gives coconut oil when crushed, or can be a high calorie snack if needed. It's a delicious thing, and very useful. Shoutout to coconuts 🔥

Really digging the 80s instructional video format!

In Denmark, there is a show called Øen(The Island) where 14 people go to an island in Panama and have to survive for 30 days. A lot of these tips are demonstrated in the show. It's worth watching if you cancfind it with english subtitles. Btw, crab lungs arent toxic. They just taste really bad. Great vid.

I’ve always loved the idea that I could survive in extreme conditions. When I found out I needed glasses when I was 10 I thought “damn maybe I wouldn’t have survived a few thousand years ago as a hunter gatherer.”. A few years after that I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and for some reason it’s so hard for me to live with the fact that I couldn’t even survive in some parts of the world today, and nowhere more than 100 years ago.

I’m not sure why I’m watching this as if my survival depended on it…. But you made a video as convincing as can be….. well done. Hard work paid off

Pro tip for moving in jungle environments: don’t touch a surface you can’t see.

I have been waterloss minimizing in my day to day life ever since I found this video and now im fitter and happier than I ever was before. I haven’t spoken a word in months, I just nose breathe - competely sober

Legit stuff to add,;- 1, build a fish stockade trap (some were a mile of more long) between tide lines so any lingering fish are caught when the tide drops without any effort and they can be funneled to another covered pool (for birds) and kept alive for days. 2, rusty rocks may by pyrite and pyrite will spark if stuck with another hard stone. 3, a ring of fresh ashes is a partial deterrent around your "house" for insects and snakes ( I've slept right over a big piles of leaves I burned. Just swept-out a spot in the middle). 4. Eat brains and gonads. They are fat. You won't make it on lean meat as mentioned. Bones are food. Just paste them with a rock in your coconut cup I guess. 5. All polypore (gill-less) shelf mushrooms (no classic stalk) are not poisonous. Some will be wood like. The broth from cooked ones is nutritional no matter how tough they are. Ganaderma is global. 6, split bamboo are used as blades often. Dulls fast but there's more around easy. 7, spit on your cordage when you roll it on the top of your leg with your palm. Old ladies making the first ply for hemp rope chew leaves of something to keep it flowing. 8, rub mud into scales or feathers and coat the animal with a few inches of it and bake in the coals. When you peel ot off it takes the skin and you don't have to scale or pluck. 9. There are several tropical honeybees that are smaller and under leaves instead of in something. There's the only sugar you'll get and a known antibiotic and food preservative.

I like the demeanor of this guy. "Do not skip plants in your diet. You will die."

Could you make one for other climates? I think it would be cool to see how they compare

I like how Don't Starve includes sanity as one of the primary traits you have to maintain, like hunger and temp control, that's just good sense. A lot of good advice in your video, nice work.

2 things: once I eat only rice for 45+ days. I got sick... looked sick and started to develop infections from nowhere. once I eat a unknown tree nut, very tasty. 30 minutes later my sense of smell was boosted to 300%. 15 minutes more I was vomiting like a rocket engine. A couple more moments later I was also shitting myself. No toilet paper, just leaves with allergic compounds. Very nice experience.

A thing I heard about the plant testing thing - do all of these to a boiled plant. Boiling makes plants safer, so it might ensure that you don't discard a plant that's edible when cooked.

Part of me now worries that watching this has included me in a horror movie esk scenario where I am now a candidate to be captured during my sleep, made unconscious and dropped onto a dessert island filled with hidden cameras in an experiment to see how far my knowledge of this video alone can be used to survive there haha

Ah, stonefish! We call them rock puppies in Australia, and they're very common and the reason we like to wear fairly serious footwear in shallow ocean water

This is why “vitamin supplements” is the most underrated answer to “if you could choose (#) things to bring to a deserted island”

Brings me back to when I studied the SAS handbook as a twelve year old, preparing for inevitable disaster. Love it

Another reason to avoid using rocks as a cooking surface is that, depending on the type of stone and its physical properties, you run the risk of the rock cracking open violently or even exploding due to heat expansion. Another thing to note is that, you can avoid destroying wooden containers while using them to cook via boiling over a fire by ensuring the flames do not rise above the water level inside the container. The water will conduct the heat out of the container faster than it can burn this way. Besides using bamboo, wooden containers can be constructed using strips of inner tree bark either sown or folded together to make rudimentary cups and bowls (think of something like a Chinese take-out box, or a pocket-shapped sown container for inspiration).

i wasn't expecting this format, i loved it. its also well explained and not rushed as fast as possible like 99% of the videos about anything on youtube, so i actually paid attention and tried to understand what i could.

Dude stop with the jokes, i need tips fast. Im stranded and my phones on 3%

An important note with fire bows/plows: the wood you're working to get your powder is an important ingredient, not all wood is created equally. You need a very dry wood with relatively small grains. If you are having little luck with your current piece, it can be wise to find a different type of wood rather than wearing yourself out trying to work wood thats unsuitable

Thank you for making a retro looking video that actually looks retro. It's usually overdone, but this one is done perfectly.

your channel is what public access television would be if passionate people filled the ranks. love your style and topical acuity! your hard work is much appreciated!

Love the plant edibility test, I’ve been subconsciously conducting that test on kale and sprouts for years!!! But seriously; thanks to all the crazy people who ate poisonous plants so we could cross them off the list 🤭

An important thing missing in the burning bamboo thing. Bamboo has pockets that explode and send ash and embers flying. If you only have it to burn make sure you split it first.

Love this video but it made me realize that I'm not getting nearly enough nutrition as someone who's NOT stranded on an island

i really love this channel i can’t express how much i love everything, the visuals the narration the throughly researched info i can’t express how calming yet attention grabbing this channel is

This info is spot on. This is the exact methods and techniques taught at the most advanced US military survival schools.

This came to me recommended and I have to say, I'm very impressed with the honesty in here. No clickbait, no nothing, just good information. I salute you sir

This is a real work of art, as an editor myself, I do appreciate your style... the type setting and colours, very nicely done. ...A most pleasant escape you have created.

I really appreciate your soft and gentle speaking, it's so nice to hear, and allows me to get into the story you are telling. It's a pleasant contrast to the crowd. Thank you for being you :) p.s. Your choice of music in addition to your voice creates a soothing hypnotic state.

Lofi and hideously presented. I love it. 80s graphics, standard definition, muzak and sprite animations. Excellent.

If there's any chance your desert island is in the Caribbean, you should learn in advance to recognise the manchineel tree. This can kill you just with prolonged contact, even if you don't ingest it.

11:30 Do not just smash rocks into the coconut. Thats the fastest way to cut yourself. Use one sharp rock against the coconut, and smash that rock with a piece of wood, or another coconut if there isnt any wood around. Its a bit more awkward to do, but it mostly prevents any injuries.

Wow, what a wonderfully encouraging story. Thank you for bringing us hope, Mr. Vobes!

This is an awesome video! A few minor nits - The zebrafish you must be wary of are of the genus Pterois, not those Danio rerio sold in pet stores you had pictured. - Crab lungs aren't poisonous, just gross.

One of the best channels on KZfaq, great vid!

Finally, a step by step guide on how to escape modernity! But how do I reach my new island paradise?

One of the first things i would do is make or obtain a sturdy walking staff. You can probe ahead in water, or on land. You can prevent slips and falls. Can be used for minor protection against critters.

Can we just appreciate how much effort and research went into this video? Most videos take subjects like this jokingly, but this guy, nah he’s a PROFESSIONAL.

I absolutely love this video! The information is delivered so well and feels rightly paced, as well as the whole visual aspect I CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT

Sometimes the infamously enigmatic algorithm hits the Spot. I (therefore 'it' ^^) discovered your channel today and it's causing quite a binge'ish afternoon. Great combination of visuals, topics & nuanced information. Thank you.

I remember reading the SAS guide again and again as a teenager. I remember the “rub the plant on the inside of your elbow” part, the distilling methods and the shelter types. I’m happy to report that no skill learned from the boos has ever been needed, so far

Never seen an editing style like this and I absolutely love it. Great job man!

The most stereotypical thing to watch late night.. thank you best 2-3am material I could've imagine

Thanks, I'm in the Philippines and my tour guide left me on one the islands, this is my second day. Appreciate the help

I listened to this on a long drive home not realising it had an old instructional video purchased from a defunct shopping channel vibe. I'm going to have to watch it again.

Bamboo fact : 1. The surface has a lot of mini sharp hairs that can cause skin irritation. (very annoying and quite hard to get rid) you should clean it before processing 2. Unsplitted bamboo is basically a continuous chamber separated by joints, so it'll explode if you burn it 3. Some bamboo chamber can contain water or larva inside ( I live in tropical country)

Been craving some chill commentary narratives lately, glad i stumbled upon you bro! Earned yourself a sub!

Important to note: if you get stranded and have coke or find any, you’ll get dehydrated faster if you do it so keep that in mind

Once my deserted island gets Wifi this is going to come in really handy.

Honestly this is a great video I don’t care about the subject but the format is so perfect thanks man

35:10 smoky fires can also be used to slightly preserve foods, just hang your morsels near it and then they'll be stored in a space that bugs generally tend to avoid, and get a bit of potentially tasty smoky flavor. EDIT: as @bwackbeedows3629 pointed out this might not always be safe.

Not alot of people talk about how genius the editing is

The artwork on these videos is just fantastic! I love how it breaks with all youtube conventions

I’m still a little dumbfounded that this channel still isn’t at 1M+ subs yet. S-tier content, some of the best on KZfaq.

I’ve always heard the warnings about tall solitary trees but never really understood how the tree gets that tall if it's that prone to being struck.

i love everything about this video, the topic is interesting and the way you show it in the video is fun and intresting

What a great and really enjoyable, informative video. I love the relaxing "holiday" music in the background as if describing bring on holidays, not surviving!

Its 45°C where i live and your tips for avoiding water loss are pretty useful here, ty! I would add to be aware of your body, mind fog, nausea and disorganized thoughts can mean youre really dehidrated and need to find shade asap

Glad i get to experience this chanel before its gonna blow up because of the outstanding thoughtfulness that goes into production of these videos

You actually can survive purely on fish, but you must eat the whole fish, this means cooking/boiling parts of the fish to ensure that they are clean. Fish also need proteins, carbs and nutrients to survive, so they will have them in their bodies.

A few things I’d add is, you can catch crustaceans with bait as well, if there are mussels or oysters, breaking one open with a rock can work as bait and generally that attracts crabs at the very least which aren’t quite as hard to catch

Is there any chance you could make one but for the mountains or something? I really enjoy listening to your narration, it's very soothing and there's a far higher chance I'd be stranded there than some island in the pacific

Interesting how abbreviated the SAS version of the universal edibility test is in comparison to the US Army version which takes 24 hours per part of each plant. Essentially, you're going to spend your starvation time trying to find parts of plants you can eat

I'm pretty sure this channel will be huge in a year or two. Great work!

DO NOT FORGET THE ROCK FOR A FIRE BOW!!!!! I did it once and got a HUGE blister that took a couple weeks to heal and hurt like hell the whole time.

this is such an amazing and beautifully constructed video. cinematographically speaking, this goes hard

this is without a doubt one of my favorite channels on yt.

this seems to be left out of nearly every survival thing i see but if you are wearing jeans, you can (LIGHTLY) scratch or shave them with a piece of bark, pocket knife or broken rock to make one of the best tinders there is. denim is just cotton so the fluff you create is not only extremely fluffy and easy to light, but burns cleanly too! ie you can use it to start a fire you intent to cook with as there wont be any bad impurities harmful chemicals in the smoke or fire! which is important, alot of things burn but not alot of things burn cleanly, especially manmade or processed things. cotton, being a flower from a plant is fine though and the dyes, even in cheap jeans, are perfectly fine :) lint from pockets also works and that kind of tinder can and will make lighting woodchips and shavings far far easier as getting wood to burn without an open flame tskes alot of heat, whereas cotton barely requires anything

What a great video! I just discover How to get internet at this desertic island, this video came really handy. Jokes aside thanks for the video, very well delivered with the graphs and all that. Great voice too.

I just escaped from an island in the Indian Ocean and I'd like to add a tiny advice: check if there are crocodile on your island Sea water crocs is the only massive land predator that can survive on a small island (in my case, the island was 2km)

Informational, fun, highly educational (even though almost no one will ever need this information). 10/10. I live off of "useless" fun facts and this cured that last bit of an itch I had for island survival. This is my first video of yours that I've seen and I'll be ever intrigued. Keep this up and you'll have a wonderful niche audience. Edits as I notice grammatical errors.

This channel has excellent production value. You deserve way more subs!

Faulty advice on starting fires. Don't try to create a flame with your bow drill fire-starter. Instead, cut a triangle notch in the base-board and drill on the corner of the triangle. The notch will fill with smoldering wood-dust and you put that in a bundle of tinder and blow on it or hold it in the wind until it burst into flames. Then put it immediately in your firepit and feed with kindling and fuel.

Stone Age coastal settlements in Europe mostly ate fish and shell fish, carbohydrates like grains are present in the archeology but it was insignificant, Stone Age diets were mostly animal protein and animal fats.

you can extract oil from old coconut it can be use to fry. or make coconut sugar. extracting the oil will produce the sugar, it will not be that sweet but its good to have. coconut crabs are also edible cook it on coconut milk and will taste like heaven just becarful coconut crabs will also eat humans and they are huge and tough. bamboo shoots are also edible just prepare it carefully.

9/10 will die at the fire step 😂

If you manage to find a kettle or you made a pot out of clay, or just made a cup out of bamboo, it may be easier to boil water by throwing hot stones into the vessel than trying to boil it normally like you do it on your kitchen.

The graphic representations are so realistic I feel like I'm on the island right now watching this. A+.

this was such a calming video. I can see myself putting this on right before bed to wind down.

Thank you for this. As someone who like to memorize information like this, you’re a godsent.

Is just love the creative tone of this. And it’s always useful to know not to eat crab lungs! I loved it

Its amazing how captivating this is. Thanks i'll go die in an island right now and in my last breaths will say "yeah the guy on that video said to never do this... i failed you"

I love the fact that he understands the importance of sources, a good man.

Diuretics actually make you pee, laxatives make you poop!

I’ve watched tons of survival videos, but I’ve never seen one that actually tells you how to survive, until now. It’s a good thing I found this before the next time I get stranded on a deserted island. 😊

You say a still would be too time consuming, however bamboo filled with water doesn't burn... You can use that to boil water be it brackish or still, or distill water from the ocean with it. Even boiling water with bamboo and just collecting the steam with a piece of clothing as a make shift "plug" will still collect the steam and life sustaining water. Also, it's easier to harvest a coconut with a sharpened stick lodged in the ground than to try and peel a coconut with a stone knife. Great video though!