If you were stranded in some sort of life boat in the middle of the ocean, is there ANY way you could use any tools to make the sea water drinkable just in small amounts,scarce enough to survive?
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Distill the water. You know how when you have a hot food near glass or clear plastic, the item gets foggy? Or when you put a cover over a pot of boiling water, and the cover gets wet? When water boils or evaporates, it rises, but when it cools, it turns back to liquid. If you have ANY liquid with water in it, and place it in the sun, with plastic or something placed over it, trace amounts of water will be caught onto the tarp or plastic, and you can let it drip down
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desalination plants....I guess a good engineer could make a minitaure compact one. All I know about desalination is they are energy intense.
Kevin costner in waterworld turned his pee into water...I suppose if he can do it so can you
But seriously and realistically
-Drinking own urine would tide you over
-What the heat like -as long as it isn't the arctic and preferably a more tropical one you could maybe rig up some jars with a fabric and try to filter out the salt or even catch evaporation.
But as you are unexpectedly stranded I doubt you got jars and cheesecloth so drinking pee is the way too go.
Also if you can fish I watched something interesting on discovery. Catch fish and instead of eating the meats like you normally would eat the organs. Especially the eyes because they contain fluids that will do the job for you! Guy was saying he starting craving the eyes and he was out there for weeks.
As you know straight up drinking salt water will dehydrate you and kill you all the quicker.
Kevin costner in waterworld turned his pee into water...I suppose if he can do it so can you
But seriously and realistically
-Drinking own urine would tide you over
-What the heat like -as long as it isn't the arctic and preferably a more tropical one you could maybe rig up some jars with a fabric and try to filter out the salt or even catch evaporation.
But as you are unexpectedly stranded I doubt you got jars and cheesecloth so drinking pee is the way too go.
Also if you can fish I watched something interesting on discovery. Catch fish and instead of eating the meats like you normally would eat the organs. Especially the eyes because they contain fluids that will do the job for you! Guy was saying he starting craving the eyes and he was out there for weeks.
As you know straight up drinking salt water will dehydrate you and kill you all the quicker.
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Your best bet is to try to capture rain water if you are lucky enough for it to rain. For saltwater though,you would have to boil the sea water with some sort of lid to catch the condensation from it. Hard to do while at sea, but will work if your stranded on a island
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If you had two vessels to carry it it, some sort of plastic material, and some sticks, you can make a water still, which uses evaporation to slowly separate the water from the salt.
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Unless you figure out how to boil it a tin foil contraption you were so intelligent to configure..
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if you somehow had a gas stove, you could boil it i suppose. I don't think this belongs in the earth sciences section though.
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They do make a filter for life boats now that does filter out the salt.
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no
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U could make a still