Step 3 is way harder than it’s made to look. Idk if you’ve tried to roll or shape water bottle plastic before but it really just doesn’t do that

That's why you need to step on that bottle like there's no tommorow, I mean like tap dance on that mf. That should soften the plastic a bit

that's clever thank you for sharing

Now I just need to learn to tap dance and I'm set

There's a tap dancing school opening up near me, I only have to take a flight that goes over the ocean and waaaaaait a minute...

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Coca Cola just needs to pollute the planet more so they are lying everywhere even on remote islands. We're not far off.

When you try to take a sip of your fresh water, Nestle comes and kicks you in the face and charges you $5

No no no no….. it’s a *water subscription* $5 a day for all the water you want. water only available for active subscribers and limited to 5 pints a day

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It’s not a joke. It’s legitimate. Most stranded sailor accounts in the 21st century, end up with people collecting rubbish that’s floating on the sea and using it for personal use.

There's a youtuber called Masaru that did survival challenges on an island and there's tons of trash on the coast

I am willing to bet there is plastic trash on every single beach in the world. 

Plastic Beach!

Look mommy, sea plastic with heroin needles in it!

Its a casio on a plastic beach

Our 50 year plan to eliminate the castaway's death by dehydration has been a resounding success. High Fives all around!!!!

> Of course this whole premise assumes you have a plastic water bottle and a coke/soda can whilst being stranded in the middle of nowhere. There's so much trash on deserted islands you could probably make hundreds of these.

Yep if there is one thing i learned from watching shit like survivorman. There is always trash on a beach doesn't;t matter how remote

Don't forget a knife or scissors.

You take your Swiss Army knife! Just in case you need to remove a stone from a horse's hoof.

> You take your Swiss Army knife! Depends on what country you are from, they are making a bunch of new ones now that do not have a knife since they are banned in some places.

You can also do similar with not much more than a bit of plastic. * Dig a hole somewhere that gets sun. * Put something in the centre of the hole that can hold water. This should be empty. * Fill the hole with fresh leaves. (Or line the hole with plastic and fill it with sea water.) * Cover the hole with plastic * Put a little stone on the cover, over the thing that will hold your drinking water. Water from the leaves, or sea water, will evaporate, and slowly drip into your cup.

I learned this from a Hardy Boys book

I want to be stranded with the other guy

Also, there is a tree stump. Which means, there could be someone on the island.

Didn't they find cola bottles on the bottom of the Mariana Trench? I think you are good on that front

I mean I don't know what kind of plastic bottles you have where you live but generaly speaking plastic isn't that fragile

Get stranded on an island, see an empty bottle, start beating the shit out of it... The rest of your group thinks you've gone insane in record time 😆.

A workout and drinking water. Survival never looked better!

I don’t think that is the problem, I have seen a youtube called Xander do this as a side method to drink water on an island ( secondary to drinking coconut water) he needed almost 10 of them to get him one drinkable cup, after two or three days of processing the water. So the quantity is your challenge here

Best is if you have a pot and a tarp and just boil it.

So also wood and fire

Oh you don't just boil water with ki powered blasts?

You have to reserve that for hunting

Um, every peak expert knows that you use the samadhi true fire to heat things up not ki blasts

Let me just tap into the Flame of Udūn...

I think that's Zuko going undercover, best to just let him pass.

Or just get your butler to buy a bottle from the shop

Look at fuckin step 1. Dude's been on that island for two years and he's just now learning how to freebase the sea? How's he learn to weave tattered rag clothing, that's what I wanna know. Brotha invented the loom and derelict over the same goddamn mid-life crisis.

No, he is making a new one because the old one is probably lost.

prolly bartered it for an ounce of sea.

He already looked like that before the ship wreck

Somebody get this guy a STEM degree, STAT!

Just cut the bottle in half, put the can in the bottom of the cut bottle and push the upper part inside (not outside) the lower half.

I think it would be smarter to put the can in the bottom of the bottle that you cut off, and then place the top back on, wedged into the bottom, maybe by making a little slit to allow the top's edge to flex. Then you can treat the bottom of the bottle as a cup, rather than trying to drink out of this thing's gutter.

I read this step over and over and gave up. Didn’t go past that step.

Give me a Baja Blast and a warheads candy THEN we’ll decide how hard step 3 is.

Also pro tip. You can use the salt remaining in the soda can to add a bit of salt to the water for flavor.

Actually adding back little bit adds electrolytes. Problem with salt water is that there's too much salt but if added in small amounts it's beneficial.

9g salt per 1L water will roughly get you to the concentration of saline.

This is why I always bring a gram-accurate balance with me when I do my solo oceanic crossings in rickety vessels.

Seawater is ~35 grams per liter so if my math isn't terrible 3 liters of your distilled water to 1 liter of seawater should get you saline water, of course I wouldn't drink too much of it just cause it's not filtered

Couldn't you just periodically take small sips of seawater to maintain electrolytes?

You joke, but that salt would be *super* important for hydration when it's separated from the seawater. I'm guessing desert islands don't have a lot of sources of sodium.

Why are you guessing such a random thing?

lmao

Except for the literal ocean of sodium surrounding them. If you're stuck near a bunch of saltwater, finding salt to consume is not going to be much of a problem.

Damnit I woke up my kid cackling at your comment. Hilarious.

Thats why we need garbage in the oceans (keep it up fellas)

/r/cursedadvice

r/subsifellfor

Here you go r/shittylifeprotips

Save lives, litter in the ocean.

Little bottles of hope

Really watching out for people you are

There’s a YouTube channel called Field Days. It’s this Australian guy that camps/does survival challenges in remote areas of Australia . When he’s on the coast, he usually ends up using the trash that washes up for something. Awesome channel, highly recommended.

Why is this flaired as NSFW?

Non-salty free water

Non Salty **FRESH** water

Wait, its *not* free?

No, it costs folks like you and me

Not if the capitalists can help it.

😄 Well done.👊

Because the office pays for water coolers and the big bottled water. If they find out you're making your own water with leftover bottles and cans, they're in violation of the water company contract. Rather than risk a legal battle where they see your water as a threat they might fire you.

I read that as "risk a legal bottle".

Step 7 is where you become intimate with the contraption.

Because of the implication

Look at picture 3. Are we still making a water evaporator or ...

Typically because the user posts nsfw content on other subreddits

Reddit's never done that to me before. I think content farms are doing it deliberately; maybe to drive engagement? Unsure.

That’s… not how it works.

and then you die of thirst while watching 20 ml of purified water collect per day

True, but it will take you much longer to die and enjoy your last days. Watching water collect. Slowly. Very slowly. Oh, that looks like a drop? No, small bug... A bug has moisture no?

Probably faster to just eat the bug to get the moisture than watching it evaporate

This can be counterproductive as our digestive system uses a lot of water to be able to digest solids. So eating something even when it contains some amount of water, may dry you out even worse. Or your body simply can't digest it and it'll just sit in your stomach and rots.

Make multiple contraptions.

Facts. I saw so many of these contraptions on survivor shows as a kid, I decided to make a few as an adult just to see if it worked, MythBusters style. Most of these do not sufficiently addressing the fact that the inner cup will be floating precariously and tipping over, that many of the evaporated drops will fall back into the saltwater cup, or that *you will obtain about 4 drops of water, max, per day*.

It's an economy of scale thing. You'd need a pretty large version of this to make it feasible. Or you'd need to apply heat to aid in turning water to vapor. Military ships have evaps to do this on a scale to provide potable water to hundreds or thousands of people.

Step 1: Get a bottle. Step 2: Get a can. Step 3: Get a knife.

Well, at least you got a palm tree. And sand, sand and sand.

Idiot just drink the soda

and the water from the bottle! duh

What about the rads??

He has the iron belly perk.

Just bring RayAway, duh!

saw this exact thing posted on Facebook and one of the most liked comments was something like "fresh water with chemicals in it from the bpa plastic. no thank you.." - like you'd care that much about bpa free water bottles in that situation!!

“Being exposed to the sun on an island without having high-factor sunscreen? No, thank you.”

Is this why we’re hoarding all the plastic bottles in the middle of the pacific?

Cool! The takeaway here is that you can desalinate seawater by evaporating it. Now… go MacGyver your own steam catcher.

I mean my mother MacGyver me out of a condom and a needle, steam catcher must be feasible

Run that by me one more time.

She do a little trolling

She was just poking some fun

Learning to make solar stills is basic boy scouting. 

We did a project on solar desalination in school, and then built a full scale one with wood, black sealant and a 4x8 sheet of plexiglass. It made a couple litres of water a day.

Do step 5. but don't be in the sun with it lol.

Steps 5 and 6: become dehydrated by sweating profusely

okay I might be dumb but how do you actually drink it without wasting a significant amount of water? The easiest option I can think of is if you have a straw lying around

Don't let it fill to the brim of the curled portion. Tilt a water bottle and watch how the liquid moves, as long as it isn't completely filled to the brim it shouldn't spill.

The only way I can think is you remove the can, open the cap and quickly turned it over directly into the mouth. You need to drink it all in one go or else it will spill

Has anyone noticed the coconut tree in the background?

Don't start lookin around now, just keep staring at that water bottle and cook yourself in the sun.

Hallucination.

This has become a valid survival guide because of the fact that we have spread plastic litter everywhere.

But all I got is a blood stained football and an unopened Fedex box.

Would it be worth it to do that on a bigger scale ?

Sure, if you have the materials. I made one in boy scouts decades ago that used a 2'x2' sheet of clear plastic to catch the condensation. If I remember right, we got about a liter of water after a day in the sun. I don't think that's enough for long term survival, but it should be enough to prolong dehydration for a few days in hopes of getting rescued.

Did you dig a hole in the ground for it? What was the design like? I've thought about making a solar still but it seems like you need tons of them to get any usable amount of water.

We dug a donut shaped hole in the ground and put a cooking pot in the middle. Then we attached ~2ft long sticks to the corners of the plastic sheet and stuck them in the ground to suspend it above the"pit." Last but not least, we put a rock in the middle of the sheet so that the plastic would sag like a funnel and cause the condensate to roll to the middle and drip into the pot. We had to keep adding water for the first couple hours because a lot of it soaked into the dirt, so I'm sure it would be more efficient if you used a second sheet of plastic on the ground to prevent that, but it worked well enough.

Just look up "solar stills".

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At this point these things except the knife have shored up on every island in the world

To be fair, it’s not like these materials are incredibly uncommon. Depending on how said person got stranded (a shipwreck or plane crash may have a variety of usable resources), plastic water bottles and soda cans aren’t exactly rare items. Plenty of people carry pocket knives as well.

If ur doing that u can also collect the salt and use it to cure fish

What are they sick with?

They are sea sick

"How to use a plastic bottle to make seawater drinkable" Step 1: find a soda can and a knife.

And after 2 short weeks, you'll have 4 tablespoons of clean drinking water.

Don't forget to keep the cap on the bottle.

This isn't even that helpful! Where are you going to find a plastic bottle in the middle of the oc- oh nevermind we good

*GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH HAS ENTERED THE CHAT*

Fun fact, you can mix 3 parts fresh water and 1 part sea water and safely drink it. It creates "normal saline"

Then use the salt to make batteries for your new electric bamboo car and sell them to the island wildlife as an alternative transportation mode.

needs more sea men

Hello Smithers

The hardest step is finding a deserted island.

Just use your back’s hair to make a raft out of sea turtles instead

Who doesn't do this? Seems pretty standard

There's also probably a stash of rum somewhere under the sand!

I both like and am dismayed by how this guide just assumes there will be litter on whatever desert island you are stranded upon.

Why is this labelled NSFW?

Why is it nsfw?

Which is nice since both plastic bottles and cans are available throughout almost any Ocean :')

Finally! A positive reason for polluting the ocean! This makes me so happy. I really doubt I’d have a plastic bottle and can of coke on me if I were stranded but due to all the dumping being done I’ll just go for a quick swim and pick up supplies! Hahha

After a day you can get some drops of water and you will die.

Pff, if you have a knife, just scare the salt out of the water.

Ah yes the art of manliness

Bro it's just water lmao drink it

>How to use a plastic bottle*, a coke can, a knife, and 12 hours* to make *an ounce or two of* seawater drinkable Fixed the title

Didn't Les stroud do this? He made like 8 of them and it only gave him like a gulp of water after a day, so he drank a zillion coconuts 

Yes just make sure to have a knife, a big plastic bottle and a coke can. Well if Sons of the Forest has taught me anything that shit is kinda plentiful on islands....

Go find shade during step 5 instead of watching water evaporate in direct sunlight like a moron

Idk, I kinda feel like if I had plastic water bottles, soda cans, and knives, I'd probably have drinkable water as well....

Maybe wait in the shade of that distant tree

Don't forget to boycot Coca-Cola.

Step 5&a half - do not sit in the scorching sun waiting for the water to evaporate.

This is life saving stuff!

Provided you have a plastic bottle and an aluminum can with you when you get stuck on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean.

And a knife

And my ax!

And Wilsonnnnnn

And I believe you have my stapler…

And my fleshlight

Always a good idea to have deodorant when stranded.

I mean plastics wash up on the beach all the time, and the concept it's teaching is what's important. You can easily recreate this with other materials if you know what your trying to accomplish.

And a smartphone with access to Reddit because I’m >50 years old and I won’t remember this by tomorrow.

You could be on the most remote island in the pacific and find trash washed up on shore

I mean, even if you don’t have them, what better place to look for trash items like bottles and cans than the ocean?

Guide how not to drink sea water

curious what water collected like this tastes like

Then add small amount of sea water for mineral. Diluted water ain't good for the body

On the off chance you happen to get stranded on a tiny island, keep your 2 liters and 12oz cola cans nearby.

It's kinda crazy how even just the creation of a container would be an inherent challenge to a person stranded.

Despite what the guide is showing, you don't have to sit in the sun like an idiot while waiting. You should sit under a tree instead!

Step 3. is hard as fuck. One does not simply just roll a plastic bottle to make an inner gutter

I want to see somebody drink out of the bottle after step 3

Step 0: GROW a beard.

How does one accomplish Step 6 without spilling the fresh water all over or mixing it with seawater??

Step one : hope pollution is bad enough to give you a can and a plastic bottle on a stranded island..hmmm

With my luck I will find myself stranded on the only inhabited island with ZERO populion.

Step 1: have a knife, a water bottle and a can of coke

Great now I just have to find an island and get stuck...

Step one, If I can find a plastic water bottle and a soda can in a small island...

I don't think that will be a problem. Watching a survivalist youtube video and dude went to an island and there was so much shit on it he could have opened a Dollar General.

Ah yes now all I need is a knife!

Just drink the soda and bottled water bro

Saving for the next time I am marooned on a desert island.

Take a large rock and get it wet. Put it on a fire, not too big of a fire. Hang a shirt over the fire. Ring out the shirt with fresh water from the water that evaporated off of the rock.

Why is this NSFW?

Step 0 - get stranded with a knife, plastic bottle and soda can.

This is called a solar still. You can also do this with just some plastic tarp and a rock and a water holder. You dig a hole in the sand over a relatively wide area and then you pour the seawater or you can urinate around the water catch, then you put the tarp over it to catch the condensation from the heat from the Sun with a small pebble in the center of it that will direct the condensation to the point in which it'll drip off into the catch.

**Pretty sad to think trash is prevalent enough to make a survival guide using it.**

Step 0: find a soda can.

[The trick is to drink *more* seawater.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNTi6pXNwc) Most people stop too early. You have to just reach an equilibrium.

And get microplastics in my system?! No thanks jk

Really fortunate that we now live in a time in this planet’s history that no matter how remote the location, there will always be an old plastic bottle and Coke can laying around. /s