10 Horrible Things that People Do to Survive

VIVA – In life, people ever feel the hardest things to survive. But how if people are in an event that can threaten their lives? Of course, the right way is taking the advantage of something that can be useful for survive. 

So, here are 10 things that people do to survive:

1. Drink Moss Water

Angela Hernandez survived seven days after her car fell from a seaside cliff in Big Sur, California.

In order to survive, she remembers the songs she likes, daydreams about the food she will eat after he is found, and drinks the water dripping from the cliff moss. Until, she was found by two surfers.

2. Eat His Beloved Dog

Marco Lavoie heads to the Nottoway River about 500 miles north of Montreal in his canoe with his loyal dog to camp along the riverbank and see views of a landscape so remote and untouched.

At that time, a bear appeared while he was camping in the interior, eating all his food supplies, then his dog came out of the tree and immediately chased the bear, saving his life.

In the end, Marco had nothing to eat. He even looked for food but couldn't find anything. On the third day, he was so hungry that he had to eat the dog because he had no other choice.

He killed his dog by hitting his head with a rock and immediately slaughtered and cooked some of its meat.

3. Eat Human Flesh

In 1972, a rugby team traveled from Uruguay to attend a match in Chile. To get there, they had to take a small plane over the rugged Andes mountains.

But there was severe turbulence, the pilot made a mistake and the plane crashed into a snow-covered peak.

Many of the passengers who died were in serious condition with broken bones and debris stuck to their bodies.

The survivors can't find food, and in desperation, they turn to the only source of food they have: the bodies of dead victims. Eventually they struggled with the idea of ??eating human flesh. 16 The victims survived and were found two months later.

4. Cutting His Own Hand

Ralston was trapped in Blue John Canyon for 127 hours with a boulder pinning his right hand against the wall and little food and drink to survive.

For 5 days, there was only one bottle of mineral water left, Ralston finally decided to cut off his right hand to survive and be free from the death trap in Blue John Canyon.

5. Eating Seals and Penguins

Starting from the sinking of the Endurance ship in Antarctica, a group sailed across the sea of ??ice.

Shackleton and five others used one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, to sail to South Georgia to seek help.

On Elephant Island there are seals and penguins to eat. There was a bay for shelter and made a camp with an overturned lifeboat.

However, there was no way anyone would come to Elephant Island to save them. The location is very remote. Shackleton then led a voyage by lifeboat to South Georgia. At this location there is a whale hunting base and they are safe.

6. Fishing and Seawater Distillation

Steve Callahan is a man who survived death after 76 days adrift at sea. In survival he tried fishing and making fresh water from distillation.

Steven fished with a speargun and it took him 13 days to catch the triggerfish, the next day seeing a boat that finally rescued him.

7. Crawling for 8 Kilometers

In 1985, Simpson and Yates from England were on an adventure by coming to Siula Grande in Peru to climb a mountain. On the way down, their food and drink ran out faster than they should have.

Simpson broke his leg, then a blizzard hit, in the chaos, they both fell on the snow slope, Simpson who did not respond to Yates' call, thought he was dead. Eventually, Yates cut the ropes and left Simpson.

As it turned out, Simpson was still alive, he was crawling with a broken leg, without food and water, crossing a distance of eight and a half kilometers to survive. Until finally he survived because he found help.

8. Just Eat a Pack of Candy

Juliana was the only one survivor of LANSA flight 508 which crashed in the middle of the Amazon river. She tries to find food in the wreckage but finds only a pack of candy to stifle her hunger.

Then, she found a river and followed it, because he believed that the river could lead out of the Forest, after a journey of several days he met a woodworker and was immediately rescued.

9. Hunting

Alone on the icy lands of Antarctica, Blackjack might die at any moment, but he's thinking about promising to return. That's what pushed him to stay afloat. He waited for several days fishing and hunting animals such as bears for rescuers to arrive.

10. Filters Carbon Dioxide

The oxygen cylinder on the Apollo 13 spacecraft carrying James Lovell and two of his crew, Jack Swigert & Fred Haise, exploded. The three astronauts devised tactics to reduce energy use, such as turning off computers on the plane, considering that the supply on the Odyssey plane was really critical.

In addition, spontaneously make an air filter from carbon dioxide in order to get an adequate supply of oxygen. The simple device was made of duct tape, plastic bags, space tubes and air hoses taken from their clothes. The tool managed to filter the air well.