Taking to the sea
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Claim: Taking to the sea when you have your survival needs met is a bad idea.
This is about as big of a violation of avoiding taking unnecessary risks when your life isn't in immediate danger as you can get. If you leave such an island, you are
- Abandoning a reliable water source for an unreliable one
- Abandoning a reliable food source for an unreliable one
- Exposing yourself to saltwater lesions.
- Risking sharks.
- Risking storms that could easily wreck most rafts made of modern materials, let alone whatever you improvise on an island
- Risking exposure from the sun
- Making yourself harder to see (no signal fires, always low to the ground, etc)
- Risking drifting way away from where rescuers would look for you.
If you don't know the ocean currents, trade winds, and shipping lanes, it's an even dumber idea.
[edit] Analysis
Oppose: Was he meant to stay on a tiny island the whole episode. That would be SO fun to watch.
Support: Was that comment even really necessary? I mean, this section is supposed to be used as a means of providing support of/debunking myths about Man Vs. Wild episodes, not commenting on what and what not would make a fun episode to watch.
Oppose: Bear specifically tells the viewer that he could survive for weeks in his situation, but that if one were to run out of water and food, one might be forced to take to the sea. Just like so many other situations, he is simply trying to demonstrate another technique for survival.
Neutral: This is actually what Bear said: "You could stay on an island like this indefinitely, but throughout history, marooned sailors have often risked it all for a chance to make it home. Tomorrow,I am going to try something I have always wanted to do: attempt build a raft and head out to sea."
