Surviorman, Season 2, Ep 6: Cook Islands

Dive knives are as much prybar as knife and often made of something tough like 420J2 that doesn't hold an edge that good after extended use.
 
He was just on the late late show with craig furgison, got about a 5 min spot. Kinda cool.
 
I can't belive noone has mentioned his Pirate Motiff until now.

I never did get a great view of his tattoo. I only made out the seal. Where was the wolf?
 
I really liked the fact that he found plenty of food in this episode. I was kind of getting tired of watching him do "Starvingman".

Was I the only one he made nervous by cutting the coconut on top of his thigh. I know the dive knife was blunt at the tip, but it still looked dangerous.

BTW, as someone who hates rats, that place definately would not be on my top ten list of places to be stranded!
 
While I was watching that episode the only thing I could think is that I would have a blast there with one of my favorite air rifles and a fishing pole, looked like a great place to spend a couple of weeks to me. Chris
 
RB.... Great minds think alike.... Alotta rats there too, Rats in the wilderness seem to me to be a readily avail foodsource as well, the "dirty" reputation rats have has largely to do with there asociation with human garbage, but on an island like that thier living conditions would be pretty clean, and there diet would be similar to anyother small game animal.
 
why did he show all the details of making that floating fishing contraption and not show him checking it for fish?
 
RescueRiley said:
.... Alotta rats there too, Rats in the wilderness seem to me to be a readily avail foodsource as well, the "dirty" reputation rats have has largely to do with there asociation with human garbage...
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Yep, and it might have something to do with that whole plague thing. You kill a few million people and you'll probably get a bad rep too!

And I'll say it again, that boy do need some fishin' lessons.

chiger,
 
I guess the wrecked boat was there to keep the rats off of him, but Les seems to spend a lot of time sleeping and hanging out. I understand that is often a good strategy when trying to get rescued but I find the shows are getting a bit dull.

There are still survival tips to be gleaned but they are getting rare. The feast at the end was second only to Red Lobster. I kept waiting for Gilligan and the Skipper to burst through the trees.

Looking forward to seeing Bear again, if he makes it back...

GB
 
Yeah, Bear's always moving, jumping, running and finding things too eat and drink. He doesn't lounge around on camera. . . he has a hotel room for that ;) :rolleyes:
 
I'm doing my best Bear impersonation today. Earlier I went outside in the Texas heat and used my machete to clear a little brush, and now I am lounging on the couch watching college football.
 
A couple of things I noticed.

He seems to spend a lot of time fishing but never gets a fish, from the Amazon to the South Pacific.

Other than clams he largely ignored the mollusks that abound in those waters. Crabs, sea urchins, clams, ect are cetainly easier to catch and better protein than fish you can not catch.

Les needs a lesson on building fish traps. With some rat guts for bait he may have been able to catch a few fish and even a crayfish or two with a conical fish basket/trap.
 
langston302 said:
dude you have to be joking about bear! you really want him back? well to each there own.:barf:
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No, I'm not joking. Les is starting to getting old. The cabin, the boat-next he'll be staying at a Motel 6. Seriously, the shelter building demonstrations from Bear paid off when my Son took a wilderness class. They didn't haul in a '68 Pontiac Bonneville for him to sleep in. They had to build a lean to on their own. He brought his LMF (although not popular with the 'scouts) and made a nice pine bough shelter with a pine needle/bough bed. And unlike the Englishman, he had to sleep in it. For pure entertainment value, MvW is our pick.

I'm doing my best Bear impersonation today. Earlier I went outside in the Texas heat and used my machete to clear a little brush, and now I am lounging on the couch watching college football.

Who are you watching? Just finished a few hours of yard work myself and getting ready to watch USC slap Nebraska around the field.

GB
 
riddleofsteel said:
A couple of things I noticed.

He seems to spend a lot of time fishing but never gets a fish, from the Amazon to the South Pacific.

Other than clams he largely ignored the mollusks that abound in those waters. Crabs, sea urchins, clams, ect are cetainly easier to catch and better protein than fish you can not catch.

Les needs a lesson on building fish traps. With some rat guts for bait he may have been able to catch a few fish and even a crayfish or two with a conical fish basket/trap.
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You mentioned rat guts, I thought he would have used some of the guts of that bird he killed.

I think it weird he went to all that trouble making that floating fish catcher and never showed checking it for fish.
 
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