Man Will Spend 300 Days Alone On Pacific Island

Private Islands Blog ^ | 5-29-08 | Cheyenne Morrison

[GRRRRR]

Day 3: Ooops, Dropped the video camera into the lagoon. It is gone. No reason to stay now that I can’t video myself. Zut alors!! Come and get me!...

[RightWhale]

He could step on a coral and be gone in 12 hours. Might be a reason the island is [nearly] uninhabited.

[valkyry1]

Really?

Are there any articles out on that topic?

[RightWhale]

Yes, indeed. Not all coral is so poisonous, but there is some that will ruin your day.

[Publius Valerius]

He’ll be able to do the old rubbing two sticks together to start a fire.

As I interpreted the article, I thought no fire because he said he wouldn't produce any "polluting emissions." I presume that smoke would fall into this category?

[Rebelbase]

The area inside the box has linear features that appear man made (roads, trails) .

[Rebelbase]

HA! From Wiki:

Tofua Island

Tofua has a population of about fifty. They are there primarily to grow kava (Piper methysticum) for export to Tongatapu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofua

[Ditto]

Xavier’s only luggage will be a Swiss army knife, machete ...

No fair. You can't make a Swiss Army knife of machete with out causing pollution.

We need to demand that this faker use only stone tools. If he wants us to go back to the stone age, he should go first.

Better not catch him with any Gortex or nylon either. They are both petrochemical.

[aruanan]

He will find timber to build a shelter, feed on the rudimentary fishing, plants and the harvesting of rainwater to survive.

Holy crap, he's going to alter the environment!

[Doomonyou]

The area inside the box has linear features that appear man made (roads, trails) .

It's Club-Med. I stayed there a couple weeks. It's nice.

[Lazamataz]

Sounds a lot like my life, except mine’s not voluntary.

[Ditter]

I think I would insist on some fishing line and a few hooks.

[attiladhun2]

Didn’t Laurel and Hardy discover an island that they declared an independent state, with all the attendant troubles. I think that island sank into the sea, also.

[attiladhun2]

Unless you want to end up with tape worms, all fish should be thoroughly cooked. I worked in the seafood processing industry in Alaska for 2 years. Even in the pristine waters of the Bering Sea, the fish are full of parasites. A nice, big tapeworm in your gut would definitely put a crimp in your outlook for survival. The show “Man vs Wild” is doing people a disservice by showing Bear Gryll eating raw trout and the like. A real no-no. You could get away with that, if you believe your rescue is imminent, but even insects ought to be cooked if you are stuck in a long-term survival situation.

[Oatka]

Those mentioning unexpected medical problems are spot on. Scientists who went to Antarctica for six months with no support, had their appendixes removed to prevent any problems in that area. And what about a toothache, broken bones, etc.?

Some years back a guy took his two kids on a wilderness trip to “get away from the aggravations of civilization and to see the wonders of nature”. They were rafting with some outfit when one of the kids got appendicitis. The guy running the raft radioed for help and a chopper came in and took the father and kids off to the hospital, where the kid survived.

So much for “getting away from the aggravations of civilization”. It is all so Utopian — until the stuff hits the fan.

[swatbuznik]

What’s he going to do, hold it in? I can’t imaging not going to the bathroom for 300 days.

A lib would say, "YES!" And even if he did and died from urinary complications, his decaying would STILL be a pollutant. A lib-enivro-wacko would say he shouldn't be there at all, so in effect, the idiot's point is utterly moot.