26 Apr
2009
26 Apr
'09
11:07 p.m.
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Philip Pemberton wrote:
- A knife. Victorinox, Leatherman, Stanley, anything
will do as long as it's
sharp and reasonably clean (or can be easily cleaned). If you were in a plane
crash, go scavenge the wreckage.
You won't find many knives on current commercial flights.
I'd rather have Jeri there. I am SURE that she could make a decent knife
from any random hunk of iron, or even iron ore.
- Water. Lower down the list because unless you just
found a crate of
mineral water stashed in the cargo hold of a plane that just went down,
you need some way of making it safe to drink. That means fire and some
form of heatproof and waterproof container. See above :)
It's unlikely that your plane will hit a desert island in fresh water.
You are likely to need potable water long before you can get any of that
other stuff together.
I can make a passable still out of the wreckage, once I get fire.
If Jeri can come up with a better source of water, then my still can be
re-purposed to use with fermented local fruit.