The story that I am going to tell happened some years ago and I watched it on a Tv program called the ultimate survival. On every one of these programs, the star, a soldier of the British special force has to survive in different extreme conditions. In this chapter the challenge was to survive on a desert island in the middle of the ocean.

When anyone is get lost in a desert island is usually  because they was travelling in a boat or plane, therefore the first drawback that they have is swim until the island from the sea. So our brave hero jumps from the helicopter and swim against streams, large waves and dangerous sharks to arrive to the island. Later this enormous effort, the first thing that he plans on is get water, food and a shelter.

In a first exploration around the island he climbs until a peak to see the best place to take cover and find food, and he decides head for a beach where there are coconuts. Once he gets at the beach he prepares a big bonfire to point his situation, in this way, if he saw a plane or boat he could light a big smoke and to be seen. But before that, he has to get fire rubbing two sticks together and keep the fire going.

As soon as he can, he climbs up palm tree to take a green coconut and drink the water, to get these coconuts was really difficult and he feels  exhausted  but It was essential to don’t  get dehydrated. Besides, he eat the own coconut and uses his oil as a solar protector. It’s amazing the amount of resources that has our man. He is able to grab seafood like a sea urchin and fish small fishes.

After a couple of days living in a poor shelter, he is desperate and decides to build a boat with logs and branches. Since it’s too wind he has to wait for several days to set off. If he had set off with that terrible weather his boat would have broken and he would have drowned. Apart from dehydration, the sharks are his main problem.

Eventually he looks a ship and he uses his knife with sand for making signals and he is rescued by fishermen.