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Is anyone here a fan of Ray Mears? He has an excellent survival program on one of the sky channels (can't remember exactly which one, near the discovery channels) where he recounts a story of extreme survival.

Some of the stories are truly astonishing. In one episode a man survives on a blow-up lifeboat in the atlantic for weeks before he was rescued - living only off water he could extract from the seawater using exaporation and hunting fish with a makeshit spear.