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S1, E1: Trapped on open water, Ruth and Mykel Hawke must reach shore, only to face miles of gator-infested swampland.
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00:00On this episode of Lost Survivors.
00:02We've got to solve the mystery of where we are
00:06so we can figure out how we get out of here.
00:08Hold up. It's a biker.
00:10Like there's something hunting on me.
00:11Something's falling on me.
00:12Something's falling on me.
00:12Yep, yep, yep.
00:14It's going to be like Monkey Bar Central for a long way.
00:18Whoa!
00:20That could kill you, but we can do it.
00:23Ah!
00:24Whoa!
00:27This is my warrior husband,
00:29Michael.
00:31And this is my journalist's wife, Ruth.
00:34We're lost somewhere on Earth, together.
00:36Time to go to work.
00:39Our mission, get back alive.
00:41Hold it!
00:42That's a shock.
00:43But first, we need to find out where the heck we are.
00:46We've got to keep moving south.
00:47If travel is the true test of a relationship,
00:50ours is about to get stretched to the limit.
00:52If that tree breaks, we have to talk about your diet.
00:55Shut up!
00:56This is going to be hell on Earth.
01:10Where do you think they're going to put us down?
01:12No idea!
01:13We're starting off in a helicopter,
01:15and I'm thinking,
01:16what kind of nastiness are we going to get dropped in?
01:20I bet you they put us on some painful mountain top.
01:23It's too warm.
01:24We're low down.
01:25It's going to be a jungle.
01:26I mean, we know where we set off from.
01:28It's going to be a jungle.
01:29It's going to be a jungle.
01:31It's going to be a jungle.
01:33It's going to be a jungle.
01:34It's going to be a jungle.
01:34Now, the pilot's saying that we're about two hours
01:37outside of Panama City.
01:38That's always giving up.
01:47Take the blindfolds off,
01:49and all I see is this wall of tree canopy all around us,
01:53and I'm wondering how to even find this hole to put us down in.
01:57Time to go to work!
02:00We're not going down.
02:02The helicopter is hovering.
02:03I mean, why can't it just land?
02:05You can't land where you can't see,
02:06and obviously that giant, snaky elephant grass there
02:09you can't put down in,
02:10so it's jump time.
02:21I don't like this.
02:22This is snaky and horrible.
02:24No, you're right.
02:25I tell you what,
02:26anything could come up on us from here,
02:27so let's go check in the wood line
02:29and then see what it looks like.
02:32We're in this grass.
02:33It could be full of snakes or anything we can't see,
02:36plus we're in the sun getting cooked
02:37because it is hot,
02:38so first thing is let's get into the tree line.
02:43I worked a lot of years in Special Forces
02:45and as a contractor all over Latin America,
02:48and a lot of these jungles are filled with poisonous snakes,
02:51wild animals,
02:52things like jaguars, howler monkeys,
02:53so I know it ain't going to be pretty.
02:56Okay.
02:56It's looking a lot better.
02:58We got some space around us.
03:00First order of business.
03:01You want to conduct an inventory?
03:03Every time we get a mission,
03:05we get a bag.
03:06We got passports, credit card, cash.
03:08Okay, that's good.
03:10We don't know what's in the bag,
03:11but we got something.
03:13Client cord.
03:1350 cord, that's parachute cord.
03:15That'll hold 550 pounds.
03:16Some things are useful.
03:18That's a mag bar.
03:19That's what starting fires with.
03:20That's a good thing.
03:21This right here is a UV light for sterilizing water
03:24to make it safe to drink.
03:25Some things don't look like they're worth a dang.
03:28What the hell?
03:29Tablecloth.
03:30What else we got?
03:31Trash bags.
03:32Okay, trash bags.
03:33Glass jar.
03:34I'm just really happy that we've got a glass jar.
03:36It is so vital to have something to carry water in.
03:40I've got my machete.
03:41I've got a knife and lipstick.
03:43Nice.
03:44I like that.
03:46Next thing we have to do, honey,
03:47we've got to solve the mystery of where we are
03:50so we can figure out how we get out of here.
03:53So we know that that little helicopter
03:54can go about 300 miles.
03:56So we could be Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia.
04:00I'm going to take a guess in saying
04:02I think we're in Panama.
04:03I think we're in the Darien jungle.
04:06Okay, so this will give you a rough outline
04:08of the country of Panama.
04:10Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela,
04:13there's a mountain that goes right up
04:15the spine of the country.
04:16I think we're on this side.
04:17I think we're in the Darien jungle of Panama
04:19and I think we need to go due east.
04:21That sun is setting in the west.
04:23We've only got about two hours of light
04:25so we need to start moving out.
04:27So that means we need to go the opposite direction.
04:33Done an inventory.
04:34We're starting to move out.
04:35We only got about two hours of daylight left
04:37so we can really only go about an hour
04:39before we get to stop down and break camp.
04:41Look, monkey.
04:42There.
04:43Way up there, you see?
04:45Yeah.
04:49I'm hoping we're in Panama
04:50because I've got experience working in Panama.
04:54Sometimes that's all you got.
04:55You just got to pick one direction
04:56and stick with it.
04:57If I'm right and we keep heading east,
04:59we're going to hit the Atlantic Ocean
05:00where for sure we're going to find a boat
05:02or a village so we can get out of this jungle.
05:06Oh, what's wrong?
05:07Oh, wasps.
05:10Let them settle.
05:11All of a sudden I feel itchy.
05:13Oh, no, something's stung me.
05:14Oh, God.
05:14See, see?
05:16Because you're looking at them too long.
05:17When you're looking at wasps doesn't make them sting you.
05:20You're hovering.
05:20You're bothering them.
05:21You're in their space.
05:22You just...
05:22You hit them with a machete.
05:23I just knock them on out of the way and keep going.
05:25You're sitting there like,
05:25Oh, they're my friends.
05:34Well, we're at the top of the hill, hon.
05:38So, what?
05:39So we got to go down.
05:42That ain't looking good.
05:43Well, can we actually walk down the ridgeline
05:44and see if it slopes gently?
05:45No, baby, because the ridgeline goes north and south
05:48and we're going east
05:49so we're going to have to go up and down a few
05:51to get to the good stuff, so...
05:54All right.
05:59These trees are amazing.
06:01Look how high they are.
06:02You don't care, do you?
06:04No, not really.
06:05I'm just looking for a jaguar
06:07that can drop down on her head.
06:09Snakes.
06:10Strike me in the neck.
06:13Ow!
06:15I just grabbed a hold of that on the way around.
06:17Vicious.
06:18Even the plants are out to get me.
06:20You got to learn how to walk with the jungle, baby doll.
06:23Not against the jungle.
06:24You got to flow with it.
06:28As we're going down this steep incline,
06:31I don't see a lot in the way of food or water,
06:34so I'm already a little concerned.
06:37All right, baby, looks like we hit the bottom of the draw.
06:40There's no water down here.
06:42All right, so we just keep on going up.
06:44You see the sun's setting.
06:45We're losing life fast.
06:45We need to build a shelter of some sort.
06:47I want to be sleeping up.
06:48No, for sure.
06:49We're not going to stay down here.
06:50I mean, this is where a lot of critters will come,
06:52a lot of predators will be hunting for the critters.
06:54So we're going to head up to the high ground,
06:55and we'll go ahead and stop down
06:56and try to make a shelter and make a fire, okay?
07:05It's getting dark.
07:06We're in a hot, wet, humid rainforest
07:08somewhere near the equator,
07:09and that means it's going to get dark soon,
07:11because in the tropics,
07:13you have roughly 12 hours sunlight,
07:1512 hours night.
07:16It's almost night.
07:19All right, sweetie.
07:21Why, so have you.
07:22How are you going to get over?
07:23What if there's a snake in it?
07:24You just woke it up.
07:30Ah!
07:31Push me, push me, push me!
07:34Gravity has got me.
07:37Shut up.
07:46You're such a smart-ass.
07:49Could have been snakes underneath it.
07:54All right, sweetie, this looks good.
07:55I think we're going to call this home for tonight, all right?
07:57You have to sleep off the ground in the jungle.
07:58The ground is just full of venomous insects,
08:01venomous snakes.
08:03So we've got to find some way to get us off the ground.
08:06Think we're in the jungle?
08:07We should use a hammock.
08:08Come over here and give me a hand.
08:10I'm going to spread that out.
08:12We're just going to make a knot at the end of each tablecloth,
08:15and that's just going to make sure it doesn't slip out,
08:17and we're going to tie it to two trees
08:18that are about far enough apart
08:20that we can squish our little bodies in
08:21and sleep almost horizontally.
08:23Call that knot?
08:25Say again?
08:25Is that going to hold?
08:26I don't know.
08:27I'm not very good at knots.
08:28You've got stronger hands than me.
08:29You should be doing the knotting.
08:30I'll do the thinking.
08:31You do the tying.
08:33He's the one that has hands like a Neanderthal,
08:35and yet I'm the one tying knots.
08:37You should have tied all the knots.
08:41All right.
08:43My instinct is we're too heavy
08:45with both of us on one piece of...
08:47550 pounds, a string will hold.
08:49But what's it to stop the weight
08:51of the combined weight of both of us
08:53slithering down this tree?
08:55That's a very good question, Grasshopper.
08:57You want to hold this?
09:00So what's going to keep it from falling?
09:03A little groove.
09:04Yeah, a little groove.
09:07Clearly, I'm worried about using the 550 cord,
09:11so we're basically doubling up on it
09:13so it's 1,000 pounds of weight
09:14that it can hold as anchor point.
09:17So actually, we've got 1,000 pounds
09:19of strength holding us up.
09:20Thank you, ma'am.
09:21All right.
09:23What do you do in the military
09:24when you need to pee in your hammock at night?
09:26We have extra equipment,
09:28and it's not a problem.
09:31Ah!
09:33Okay, you sleep that away.
09:34Wait.
09:35Are the knots secure?
09:38You're asking now?
09:39Yes, this is the time I need to know.
09:41No, the time you need to know
09:42is before you get in it.
09:43Okay, you good?
09:45There you go.
09:47This is going to be hell on earth.
09:49As far as I'm concerned,
09:50this is as good as it gets.
09:52This right here,
09:53I'd give it about a two-star jungle hotel.
09:57The standards are quite low.
09:59Ah, you hear that?
10:01All the natives are getting restless
10:02before the sun goes down.
10:04Okay.
10:05Let's get a fire going
10:06before it gets too dark.
10:07You start gathering the firewood,
10:08I'm going to start making the preparations
10:09to get the fire going, okay?
10:11I'm going to clear all this brush out
10:12from our fire pit
10:13because I don't want anything wet under it.
10:17Hold up.
10:18Snake.
10:19Fat snake.
10:20It's a viper.
10:22That, in fact,
10:24that's a fair de lance.
10:25That type of snake
10:26kills more people
10:27than any other snake
10:29in South America.
10:30You can see it's got like a triangle
10:31with two spots underneath
10:33and under its chin
10:34it's kind of yellowy-white.
10:35And the reason
10:36that that image
10:37is burned in my brain
10:38is because I sat on one of those once
10:40and I shouldn't really be dead.
10:42It's not like my bottom's a small target.
10:47I'm going to leave that well alone.
10:54Okay, so...
10:55The way the mag bar works
10:56is very simple.
10:58You shave the metal
10:59from the magnesium
11:00and it gives you something to burn
11:02and then you strike the flint
11:03which ignites it.
11:06Yeah, the best kind of firewood to get
11:08is wood that's not on the forest floor
11:10because it's all damp, you know,
11:12it absorbs the moisture
11:14from the forest floor.
11:20Can I use my knife, please?
11:21Yes.
11:23I was thinking,
11:24this lipstick
11:25is quite an oily lipstick.
11:27Mm-hmm.
11:28So I might be able to use it
11:30as a fire extender.
11:33Absolutely.
11:34It's got a petroleum base
11:35and what that will do
11:36is whatever spark we get going
11:38that will kind of light up
11:39like a candle
11:40and keep the flame going longer
11:42allowing us to buy more time
11:43with our tinder
11:44instead of just burning up
11:45so we can get the fire going.
11:46So basically what I'm going to do here
11:48is try and craft
11:50a very expensive candle, actually.
11:52A bit of my lipstick
11:54mushed together in a leaf.
11:56So what I'm going to do
11:56is I'm going to strike the spark
11:58into the magnesium shavings.
12:00That's going to give us the flame.
12:01Put your little fire extender in there.
12:03That's going to catch it on fire
12:04and keep it burning.
12:05The lipstick worked.
12:19So we don't have food
12:21and we don't have water
12:22which is a major concern.
12:23But we do have fire
12:24and we do have shelter
12:25and that really helps
12:26get you through the first night.
12:34Howler monkeys.
12:36Maybe you've never heard
12:37howler monkeys.
12:38It's just a horrendous noise.
12:40I'm scared.
12:42Genuinely scared.
12:46Something's falling.
12:47Something's falling on me.
12:48Yep, yep, yep.
12:49Okay, obviously
12:50if they're running through the trees
12:51in the middle of the night
12:52there's something hunting them.
12:53Okay.
12:55Whatever it is
12:56just let it hunt down.
12:58Ow!
12:58What is it?
13:02It's our first night
13:03of being lost in a jungle
13:04somewhere in Latin America.
13:06We've got no food
13:07no water
13:08and now there's a pack
13:09of howler monkeys
13:10just running through the trees
13:11above our heads.
13:13Something's falling on me.
13:14Something's falling on me.
13:14Yep, yep, yep, yep.
13:16Okay, obviously
13:16if they're running through the trees
13:18in the middle of the night
13:18there's something hunting them.
13:20Okay.
13:22Whatever it is
13:23just let it hunt down.
13:24Ah!
13:25What is it?
13:30Can't see?
13:31Alright, you know what?
13:32I'm gonna stoke the fire up.
13:34Stay right here.
13:43They've moved on.
13:45That was horrible, right?
13:46One of the things
13:47that's chasing them
13:47has stopped chasing them
13:48and is now just waiting.
13:50Hoping that this fire
13:51is gonna keep it at bay.
13:52You know,
13:53most critters
13:54have an innate sense
13:56to run away from fire.
14:02We're very thirsty.
14:03We'll get some water
14:04first night.
14:16Oh, wow.
14:18Whoa.
14:18What is that?
14:19Look at that, babe.
14:21That's a scorpion.
14:22Yep.
14:23Well, that ain't like
14:23no normal scorpion.
14:24That just gives you
14:25a little sting.
14:25That'll really put you
14:26in a hurt box.
14:27Now, that's just a common
14:29bark scorpion.
14:30It's found all over
14:31Latin America.
14:32Good news is
14:33it's not lethal.
14:34Bad news is
14:35it's gonna hurt
14:36if it bites us
14:36and that's one of the
14:37many reasons
14:38why we're sleeping
14:38off the ground.
14:39So we're just gonna
14:40leave him be,
14:41but be mindful there.
14:42Obviously all over the place.
14:43I am dead hungry
14:45and very thirsty,
14:46so we gotta make
14:47a priority
14:48of getting something
14:49to eat and something
14:49to drink.
14:50And we gotta keep
14:51on moving east.
14:52Towards the rising sun.
14:53Yeah, yeah.
14:55I'm taking a guess
14:57that we're in the
14:57Darien jungle of Panama
14:58and that we're closer
15:00to the Atlantic Ocean,
15:01so we're gonna strike
15:02out for the east.
15:03That could come back
15:04to bite us in the butt,
15:05but for now,
15:06that's my best guess
15:07and what we're sticking with.
15:12Oh, look at this, baby.
15:13What?
15:14Look at this.
15:15This right here
15:16is a berry bush
15:17where we can get
15:18some nibbles.
15:19And the way you can tell
15:21for sure what it is,
15:22they have three ribs.
15:24One, two, three.
15:25Like three spines
15:26going down.
15:27Yes, exactly.
15:28Right.
15:28Exactly, okay.
15:29You know, but the good thing
15:30about most berries
15:31is that simple rule,
15:32you know,
15:33if it's purple or blue,
15:34it's good for you.
15:35A little hawk-ism
15:36I use to help me
15:37with my berry,
15:38identification, okay?
15:39If it's purple or blue,
15:41it's good for you.
15:42If it's yellow or white,
15:43it probably ain't right.
15:45If it's red, 50-50.
15:46Could be good,
15:47you could be dead.
15:48So are these all over
15:49Latin America
15:50or just primarily in Panama?
15:52Very common in Latin America.
15:54Oh.
15:55I was hoping
15:56it would be something
15:57that would say
15:58definitively
15:59that we're going
16:00the right direction.
16:01I still think
16:02we're in Panama, so...
16:03I mean, I don't know
16:03how the hell you think that.
16:03I mean, it's a rainforest.
16:06Well, the thing is,
16:07I mean, that's a good point,
16:07but every region
16:09of the world
16:09has its own personality.
16:11So it's our job
16:12to figure out
16:12what that personality is,
16:14to read it,
16:14and then from there
16:15we can solve the mystery.
16:17All right.
16:18Let's keep rolling.
16:19So a few berries
16:20doesn't do much
16:21compared to the amount
16:22of energy we've expended,
16:23but you can't think like that.
16:25You have to look
16:25and look at the positives.
16:26It's a little victory.
16:36Check that out.
16:37What?
16:38Right there, honey.
16:39Look at that.
16:39He's biting my glove.
16:41Oh.
16:41But that little guy,
16:42you can see those little
16:43dots right there?
16:44I was just looking
16:45at him on that branch.
16:45He's got a little diamond back.
16:47Yeah.
16:47Oh, maybe snake lizard.
16:48Yes, but what's special
16:50about this little guy
16:51is it's only found
16:53in one part of the world
16:54where they have
16:55a diamond back pattern.
16:56I think I know
16:57what this is
16:58and it's telling me
16:59I'm somewhere
17:00other than I thought,
17:01just on the Osa Peninsula
17:03of Costa Rica.
17:05That one little peninsula
17:06and this critter
17:07is unique to it.
17:08And you know that
17:09because you lived
17:10in Costa Rica?
17:10That's right.
17:12So we've been going
17:12completely and utterly
17:13the wrong direction.
17:15I still think
17:15we need to go east.
17:16I'm thinking
17:17we have a clue.
17:19We finally have a clue.
17:21Maybe we should turn around.
17:23Come on.
17:23We're going east.
17:25I ain't wanting
17:26to turn around right now
17:27because we done spent
17:28a whole day
17:29moving in one direction.
17:30I'm going to try
17:31to stick to that direction
17:32if I can.
17:34Right now,
17:34we're headed east.
17:35So if we're in Panama,
17:37that means the Atlantic coast
17:38and civilization
17:39is right in front of us.
17:41But if I'm wrong,
17:42then I'm off
17:42by a few hundred miles
17:44and that means
17:44we're only going
17:45deeper and deeper
17:46into the jungle.
17:46of Costa Rica.
17:47Whoa.
17:49It's a bit slippery.
17:51Whoa.
17:53Ow.
17:54You all right?
17:55Yep.
17:56Good little cliff.
17:57Yeah, careful, careful,
17:58careful.
17:58You can slip and slide.
17:59Ow!
18:03Whoa.
18:04You okay?
18:05Yep.
18:06There's nothing
18:07for me to hold on to here.
18:08I mean,
18:09this is breaking
18:09all the cardinal rules.
18:10I'm scrabbling
18:12on the floor
18:12of the rainforest,
18:13just grabbing
18:13unknown things.
18:19All right,
18:20up we go.
18:21You didn't even cuddle me
18:22when I got to you.
18:24I'm sorry.
18:25You want me to come back
18:26down there, Cuddy?
18:27It's too late now.
18:33We're going up and down,
18:34all manner of steepness.
18:37Come on.
18:38Give me your hand.
18:39You won't make it without.
18:40It's too loose.
18:42I'll make it.
18:42Fine.
18:43I've got it.
18:43And when I stick my hand
18:44out to say,
18:45hey, let me help you,
18:46that's the one thing
18:47you're supposed to grab
18:48that you don't.
18:49But I'm going up
18:49at this point.
18:50I don't need your hand.
18:52You always need my hand.
18:53If I give it to you,
18:54you should take it.
18:54It's nice.
18:55When I put my hand
18:55out to you,
18:56you never take it.
18:57Because I'm the man.
18:58I'm not supposed to,
18:59okay?
18:59I got this.
19:00I've married a man
19:01from the 1940s.
19:04And I married a woman
19:05who's too dang old
19:06and stubborn
19:07to just take my hand.
19:08Oh, no.
19:09I got it.
19:11That's why you love me?
19:12Most times.
19:14Ow.
19:16Oh, here we go.
19:17Another one of the,
19:18um, this is definitely
19:19distinctly a diamond-backed
19:20lizard.
19:20Yep.
19:21Well, then we're
19:22definitely distinctly
19:23not in Panama, honey.
19:25Basically, one of these
19:27diamond-backed lizards
19:28could have crossed over
19:29into Panama,
19:30but when you see several,
19:32it's far more likely
19:33in southern parts
19:35of Costa Rica.
19:36Not only southern
19:37Costa Rica, honey,
19:38southwestern Costa Rica.
19:39Very specifically,
19:41the Osa Peninsula.
19:43Peninsula as in pokes
19:44out into the sea?
19:45Yep, as in sticking out
19:46in the sea,
19:47surrounded by water,
19:49heavy, thick jungle,
19:50no people come down.
19:52And what that means
19:53is that we're all
19:54also going in
19:55the wrong direction.
19:57Okay, okay.
19:58I made a mistake.
20:00Now I gotta suck it up.
20:02Well, it's not just
20:02you sucking it up.
20:05Well, there's that, too.
20:06Pretty much,
20:07there ain't nothing
20:08you can do to fix that
20:09or make it better.
20:10You just gotta own it
20:11and try to make
20:11the most of it.
20:12Okay, listen,
20:13we gotta change the plan.
20:14So we've been going
20:15due east,
20:16following the sunrise.
20:17What we're gonna do now
20:18is terrain association.
20:20So in essence,
20:21we're gonna go
20:21generally west, okay,
20:23but we're gonna follow
20:24the terrain
20:24and the easiest path
20:26of least resistance
20:27work our way
20:28generally west.
20:29A bit like what I said.
20:31A bit like.
20:33Okay?
20:34All right.
20:37So now we've lost
20:38a whole day
20:40and all the energy
20:41that we've expended
20:42in that day
20:43for nothing.
20:45All right,
20:46it's going down
20:46a little bit again.
20:48Oh!
20:49Ah!
20:51Ah!
20:53Ah!
20:53Straight out,
20:54straight out,
20:55spread your legs.
20:56Ah!
20:57Ah!
20:57All right,
20:57I'm coming down.
20:59Ah!
21:00Ah!
21:01Ah!
21:03Ah!
21:03Ah!
21:03Ah!
21:04Ah!
21:04Ah!
21:05Ah!
21:06Ah!
21:09Ah!
21:14Ah!
21:14I'm sorry,
21:15you okay?
21:15Yeah.
21:16Wow,
21:17that's a long fall,
21:18boo-boo.
21:19Yeah,
21:19I'm all right,
21:19I'm all right.
21:20Come on.
21:21So it's day two
21:22I've been lost
21:23somewhere in a Latin
21:24American jungle,
21:25but we've just found
21:26a clue which tells us
21:27that we've probably
21:28been going the wrong
21:28direction for the
21:30whole of day one.
21:31So now Mike and I
21:33are reversing course
21:34because we think
21:35we're in the Osa
21:35Peninsula of Costa Rica.
21:37So now Mike and I
21:38are turning round
21:39and heading west
21:40towards the Pacific Ocean.
21:42We're hoping to find
21:43a fishing village
21:44or a boat.
21:47Oh, look, Mike.
21:50Look,
21:50poison dart frog.
21:51You see it?
21:51Look, there.
21:53Well spotted.
21:54Indian tribes
21:55used to use this
21:57to paralyze creatures
21:58when they're hunting.
21:59They would wipe
21:59the back of their arrows
22:00on this frog's skin.
22:02Even though I'm
22:02colorblind,
22:03I can tell that
22:04that's orange.
22:05That frog is also
22:07only found in the
22:09Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.
22:11You honestly,
22:12you truly know that?
22:13Yeah, because one
22:14of the main things
22:15I study in survival
22:16is what things are
22:17unique to the environment
22:18and that is unique
22:19to the environment.
22:21Okay, you know what?
22:22If we are in Osa,
22:23we need to just go down.
22:24It's going to be gnarly,
22:25but if we go down,
22:26we're going to find water
22:28and we can follow
22:29that out to the coast.
22:31See, if you hadn't
22:32lived in Costa Rica,
22:33there's no way
22:34on Earth
22:34that we'd know that.
22:36You'd be surprised
22:37what kind of knowledge
22:38in my little pea brain.
22:40So now we know
22:42we're in the Osa Peninsula
22:43of Costa Rica.
22:44That place is one
22:45of the most high-density,
22:47biodiverse rainforests
22:48in the world.
22:49And I know from experience
22:50that before we get
22:52to the ocean,
22:53we're going to have
22:53to go through miles
22:54of nasty mangrove
22:56before we even get
22:57a peek at the sea.
22:58Watch your step.
23:00Hold up.
23:02Is that...
23:02That's not wind,
23:03that's water.
23:03Can you hear the noise?
23:04I hear it,
23:05and I can even smell it.
23:10There it is, baby, water.
23:12Woo!
23:14Fantastic!
23:16Oh, yeah.
23:19Even in a rainforest,
23:20it can be difficult
23:21to find water.
23:22Oh, Scott,
23:22I am so incredibly
23:23hot and thirsty.
23:25And right now,
23:26it's Central America's
23:27dry season,
23:28so finding this creek
23:29is an absolute godsend.
23:30Oh, yeah.
23:32Oh, God,
23:33that feels wonderful.
23:34Okay, sweetie,
23:35let's make this water
23:35safe to drink.
23:36The human body
23:37has about five litres of blood,
23:39and when you're exerting
23:40yourself like we are
23:41going up and down
23:41these hills in the jungle,
23:43that's about how much water
23:44you need to replace.
23:45So having this river
23:46allows us to drink
23:47as much as we can now,
23:48and then this jar
23:49allows us to go
23:50just a little bit further.
23:51This little pen right here
23:53is going to make this
23:55nice and safe
23:55no matter what.
23:56How on Earth
23:58is that flashlight
24:00going to make that water
24:01safe to drink?
24:02Watch.
24:03Right now,
24:04what's happening
24:05is that UV light
24:06is coming out of this bulb,
24:07and that UV light
24:09actually kills
24:10the cell wall
24:11of all the bacteria,
24:12all the protozoa,
24:13and makes it safe.
24:14So why doesn't the sun
24:16just kill bacteria
24:17and water
24:18because that's UV light?
24:19Because this is
24:19in this dirty soil,
24:21and there's all the runoff,
24:22and all the animals
24:23come in here
24:23and poo and pee,
24:24that's what makes it
24:25unsafe for humans.
24:26And it's too deep
24:27for the sun to penetrate
24:27all the way through.
24:28Yeah, it'll only penetrate
24:29just to, like,
24:30the top inch.
24:31Well, that's amazing.
24:32Shouldn't you be stirring it
24:33to make sure
24:33all the edges are sorted?
24:34Yes, honey,
24:35we can stir it.
24:36It makes you happy.
24:37It's for the best.
24:37It feels like
24:38you're doing something?
24:39Yeah.
24:40There you go.
24:40It's gone out.
24:41All right.
24:49That's a mighty fine vintage.
24:50The only time
24:51you can't really use these
24:52are when the water's
24:53really muddy and dirty
24:53because when it's muddy
24:55or dirty,
24:55the UV light can't get in,
24:56and it's blocked
24:57by some of the particles,
24:58and it can't kill
24:59all the bacteria.
25:00So what we'll do
25:01is we'll drink up,
25:02and then we'll make
25:03a jar safe to travel.
25:08Okay, let's just stay
25:09on this river
25:10and just follow this out.
25:13And now,
25:14not only can we hydrate,
25:15but we can navigate.
25:16This could very well
25:17be our road to the sea.
25:19That's where we have
25:20the best chance
25:21of getting rescued.
25:24You notice, babe,
25:25the walls are getting steeper,
25:27and it's getting darker
25:28in here.
25:30I can hear a waterfall.
25:32Yep.
25:36Don't look good.
25:46All right,
25:46we can't go up that way
25:47because that's just
25:48a wall of mountain,
25:50and we can't go up that way
25:51because that's another
25:52wall of mountain.
25:54That could kill you,
25:55but we can do it.
25:59No.
26:02All right, listen.
26:02I got the rope.
26:03I got the 550 cord.
26:05Let's use that.
26:05It's a piece of string, Mike.
26:06It'll hold 550 pounds.
26:08It's a piece of string.
26:09I'm not going to water
26:09on a piece of string.
26:14Is there no other way down
26:15than the side?
26:16Babe, that's what I'm telling you.
26:18It will take us a half a day,
26:20maybe even a whole day,
26:21to get back up the top
26:22of those mountains.
26:22That is serious,
26:24steep, jungle stuff.
26:25How long is the string?
26:27I don't know.
26:27Let's find out.
26:31All right.
26:35See right there?
26:36No!
26:37All right, arms under.
26:39Because the terrain
26:40is so steep on either side,
26:42experience tells me
26:43it could take us days
26:44to try to go up
26:44and get around,
26:45and we might even
26:45lose the river.
26:46So I'm going to take
26:47the chance of using
26:48the thin but very strong
26:50paracord as a repel rope.
26:52Now, it is riskier,
26:53but I think also
26:54it's going to save us
26:55a lot of time.
26:56If I slip down there,
26:57it's going to crack my skull.
27:00I'm scared of heights.
27:02I'm scared the string
27:03is going to snap.
27:04I'm scared it's going to
27:05slip up and strangle me.
27:06I'm scared I'm going to
27:06crack my head on a rock.
27:08I'm scared I'm going to
27:08drown in the waterfall.
27:10Well, all viable concerns.
27:12Just so that you don't fall,
27:14and that tree is what's
27:16holding you, not me.
27:17So I'm climbing down
27:17the cliff with no help?
27:19Yeah.
27:20There are no handholds.
27:26Can't see a thing.
27:30Oh, God.
27:32Ow.
27:33My God, the one slip!
27:34My God, the cliff face
27:34is falling apart!
27:36I'm being held
27:36by a piece of string,
27:37and the cliff is
27:38crumbling under my feet.
27:40You okay?
27:42I'm all right.
27:50Okay, I think it's
27:51going to be all right.
27:54Ah!
27:54Ah!
27:59Ah!
27:59Ah!
28:00Ah!
28:00Ah!
28:00Ah!
28:01Ah!
28:01Ah!