Castaway.Chuck Noland's SAK,A thought.

[Mannlicher]

Most of you have seen Cast Away.Those who haven't go rent it ASAP.In that film the main character uses a SAK to do his daily chores.However,when he's lost in the plane wreck he had left it home with his girlfriend.
Now,my question is this.Had he had his SAK would he had been better off?Without it he was forced to learn the basic survival tasks that ended up saving his life.Would he have leaned too heavily on his pocket knife and not adapted adequately to his environment.
Thoughts?

its a movie............. Hard to say what the results would be in real life, but I can't think that having a knife would be a detriment.

A screen writer might differ though.

 

[Ultraman]

Some would I think, but all that chopping and hacking of Coconuts and Bamboo, I actually think the skate blade would have held up better over 4 years of that kind of abuse.

I'm convinced the skate worked better for the emergency dental surgery.