Bear_Grylls_Searches_a_Whole_Island_for_Food___Man_vs._Wild(360p)
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00:00There are over 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean and many of those are uninhabited.
00:11Often the reason that islands like this are uninhabited is that there's no ready supply
00:16of drinking water and my best way of finding a drink is to get to these coconuts and the
00:23ones I want are up there but the only problem is that's probably about 35 or 40 foot up
00:28and getting them is not going to be easy.
00:33There is a technique for climbing these trees, always keep pressure on the trunk with the
00:38balls of your feet and toes and as you go up alternate moving your hands and your feet.
00:45One thing you really need is strong inner thighs and if you're good at riding horses
00:49you're going to be good at this but my thighs are burning, I'm only half way up.
01:00Coconuts may be a lifesaver in this castaway situation but they're also killers.
01:07People die every year from coconuts falling on their heads and an average sized nut weighing
01:11two pounds can hit the ground with a force of one metric tonne.
01:23These are the ones I'm after, it's these green ones that are the younger coconuts and they
01:30contain much more water than the older ones that are lying around on the beach, the brown
01:34ones.
01:35Also these green ones are much more nutrient rich but the way I'm going to get it off is
01:41just to keep twisting them.
01:49And they should go any minute, here she comes and there she goes, awesome.
02:10Coming down these trees is much harder and more painful than you might think.
02:18Tell you what, this is not the sort of thing you want to do as a bloke.
02:24Ow.
02:39Ah, there we go.
02:47Coconuts are rich in potassium which your body loses when it sweats.
02:52That is beautiful.
02:59It also holds vitamin C and carbohydrate so it's a good source of energy and it's not
03:06surprising that the Polynesians call this the tree of life.
03:13It's day two on the island and if you're in this situation food is now your next priority.
03:19I'm going to try my luck in the ocean.
03:22First I'll need to make a spear.
03:23This bamboo pole is a start.
03:26To stop the bamboo from splitting I need to use some more hibiscus bark to latch round
03:30it.
03:32Now I split the head of the bamboo and just ease that down so that I can carve four very
03:38sharp points.
03:42The sharper I make these the easier it's going to be to try and catch a fish of some sort.
03:53It will also come in handy if I need to defend myself as these waters are also hunting grounds
03:59for sharks.
04:00This is getting pretty sharp now and that's really about as good a spear as I can make
04:09for fishing.
04:21There's plenty of fish if I can only catch them.
04:24But there are risks.
04:26Some fish are poisonous, others can attack.
04:29So keep your hands away from any dark nooks and crannies because vicious moray eels will
04:34attack whatever comes into view.
04:36And don't try eating them either.
04:38Moray eel can cause ciguatera, the most common form of marine food poisoning in the US.
04:48I can only hold my breath for a couple of minutes before I have to resurface.
04:52Of all the mammals, humans have the smallest breath-holding capacity.
04:59We're running out of puff down there but I'm definitely managing to hold my breath for
05:10longer now than when I first started.
05:13And that's what I need to do.
05:15Just slowly increase the time.
05:22But meeting a shark is not what I expected here.
05:26Luckily this is a sandbar shark, one of the least aggressive species around here.
05:31But he's a reminder that there could be others around.
05:34So it's time to get out of the water fast.
05:43But I'm not giving up.
05:44In any survival situation, you've just got to keep on trying.
05:48And if that doesn't work, then come up with a new plan.
05:52I'm going to try a traditional technique that's used by Pacific Islanders.
05:59I'm looking for a plant that can be used to poison fish.
06:04The tuber plant is common throughout the Pacific.
06:08It has distinctive oval leaves and is found near coastlines.
06:14The poison is in the roots.
06:17You want to use only fresh, small roots as they are the most toxic.
06:23Fish often get trapped in little rock pools like this at low tide and what I'm doing here
06:29is just crushing up this tuber root to get the oils out of it and this is so cool.
06:37What you do, really mush it and then just shake all of this into this water.
06:46Within minutes, any fish caught by this should float to the surface.
06:52The plant and root system contains rotenone, a natural toxin used for centuries by indigenous
06:58people for harvesting fish.
07:01And the poison has no effect on human beings, so the fish are safe to eat.
07:07Cool, well that's eight and that's dinner.
07:16Now I've actually caught these fish, I need to cook them and what I'm going to do is bake
07:21them in what's called an emu and that's a traditional Hawaiian rock oven and this is
07:28something I've always wanted to do but I've just never normally had the time to spend
07:33to do it properly.
07:36So what you do, first of all just dig a pit like this, so I'm going to use my giant nose
07:43tweezers that I made earlier which are quite cool and I can just pick some of these rocks
07:49up, place them in here and these are now really hot and it's these that are going to slow
07:58bake the fish once I've wrapped them up.
08:08And these rocks will stay hot for hours and hours and hours and sand is a really good
08:13insulator.
08:14The way I'm going to do these fish is to wrap them in these tea tree leaves and these tea
08:24tree leaves are really important actually to Polynesian people, they're known for their
08:28medicinal qualities, anti-ageing, always good but more importantly they're going to make
08:33it taste nice and keep all the moisture and this is going to be the very centre of what's
08:39really the ultimate steamer and what I'm going to do then is tie one end together and that's
08:49ready to go into the oven.
08:55And what I do is use some of these leaves here just to line the bottom of the oven,
09:02put the bundle in there, more leaves on the top and then basically leave it and this in
09:13about an hour should be ready.
09:17I can't wait!
09:20While that's cooking I'm going to extract some oil from coconut flesh that will protect
09:25me against the sun and salt water and what I'm going to try and do is then crush it and
09:30get the oil out of it.
09:32I'm never going to get it looking as smooth as like sun cream but I just want to crush
09:37it enough so the oil seeps out of it and it's this oil that I'm going to use just to protect
09:45me against all the salt water, chafing and the sun and then all I need to do is get a
09:50little bit of it, rub it in my hands and then rub it onto my skin like this and you see
09:57the oil coming off and that's going to give me good protection.
10:04My fish should now be cooked.
10:06There we are and I can see just the little fish eyes have popped out, I don't know if
10:13you can pull one of them out.
10:16The fish eyes have popped out and that's a sign that they're ready but these you can
10:21just eat whole and this is going to be good.
10:25You can stay on an island like this indefinitely.
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