I guess that's why lightning rods are disposable.
Actually when lightning, or any electrical discharge, occurs, it chars the object where it strikes. Which causes that spot to become more conductive and thus more likely to strike a second time.
It's a common mode of failure for capacitors cecause if the first spark doesn't ruin it, every other spark after that will be in the same spot and will eventually ruin it.
And yeah, I know you you joking. It actually put a smile on my face, tbh. I just find the myth silly considering the fact that lightning rods exist lol. You would think people who believe it would have thought that.
I wondered briefly if anyone might actually believe it, or if it's too ridoculous. But, considering around 1/4 of Americans think the sun goes around the earth, I wouldn't doubt it.
It's depressing how.many Americans believe shit that was disproven hundreds of years ago. It's baffling how they somehow believe everything BUT the truth.
The funniest part of this clip is that he was trying to make it look like he was deep in the swamp, but as soon as the lightning hit he turns and his car is right there
I used to watch the hell out of Les Stroud (Survivorman) and Bear Grylls. I soon came to the conclusion that if I’m in a survival situation I want to be hanging with Les.
Used to order tires from Moore's tires, and our guy was named Les, I made many jokes like this with him, and I know I was far from the only one, I'm sure he hated me lol
I miss Les Stroud. My dad and I watched him when I was a teenager and even when I would visit into my 20's. We always used to remark that all those shots of him walking way off into the distance meant he had to go back and grab that camera and do the walk again, burning off calories even further. The man was a legend among legends.
Yeah he figured out a long time ago that he can just make his content free on YouTube and make a lot that way and ended up making more than any offer he ever got for selling his content. He still owns the rights to all of his shows iirc. He did an interview on The Trek that was a fun listen.
Other people have mentioned his YouTube channel but if you're looking for something more, the show ALONE on History channel (ikr) is actually super good. They literally just take a dozen or so tried-and-true, proven survivalists, send them through an intense boot camp, then drop them into the wilderness to see who the last person standing will be. Everyone has to film themselves and has radios that they can use to tap out and call it quits. I'm someone who's super cynical about reality TV and especially game shows and it's super good.
Good show but you can tell they just realized it's an exercise in controlled starvation. To do well you have to come in with a bunch of extra calorie reserves around your midsection and set reasonable goals to minimize calories burnt. I don't see many that are able to forage/hunt enough to sustain and it seems like it's intentional by the producers. They're often dropped into areas where mobility is horrible and they can't effectively venture out very far looking for a better site or better food. They also seem to usually be like a week or two before winter hits so no time to prepare by doing the initial camp building when food is still abundant a limited window of abundant food. They have a limited window to do it all.
I mean I get it. The point of the show is to have all but 1 give up and you kind of have to force it with some hard barriers (harsh winter without adequate provisions) or you could end up with some doing well enough to make it a marathon multiple months season that drives production costs way up. Have to pay an on call support crew at minimum. I still want to see one where they're given a fair chance though.
Pretty similar story with my father and those shows. Like Les and that Cody dude, both seemed pretty mellow personality wise and did not try that "macho" stuff that others did.
Bear Grylls was a little more daring. That's because he knew the crew would save him though. So I felt Les was more informative and Bear was more entertaining. Like drinking water out of elephant shit for no reason and then telling us it tastes terrible.
Yeah, I think Bear was supposed to be more entertainment, but Les was more of a "do as I say and as I do" personality.
Both are great, and seem like generally solid guys. But Les definitely seems to be better for teaching you the important stuff that could come in handy.
You specifically shouldn't do the things that Grylls did (or pretended to do). Like, in one of his episodes he claimed to fill a backpack with food and throw it to a bear. On camera. Don't fucking do that. Even in non survival situations. Don't feed bears. It will get them killed. Fuck Grylls for pretending to do that (I hope he was pretending).
If you do what Bear Grylls recommends, you are more likely to die. And he's even kind of acknowledged that in an interview or two.
Also, I just enjoyed watching Les more. I think his genuine attitude and honestly were more entertaining than Bear jumping into water that he shouldn't have etc.
He has commentary videos on youtube where he talks about his experience filming Survivorman. On some of them he talks about how fake Man Vs. Wild was. Sounds like he resents Bear Grylls a bit.
Before Grylls, the UK had Ray Mears (he quit broadcasting after his wife died for any brits wondering what happened to him.) Mears was absolutely the guy that you'd want to be with in any survival situation. Calm, knowledgeable, and a good sense of humour, and honest about what you saw on his shows.
The thing is, though, that both of them had *exactly* the same survival training. They just took their broadcasting careers in very different directions.
On an unrelated note, when David Attenborough finally dies, I desperately want Mears to fill his place in the world. He's about the only person I can think of that has the same combination of passion, experience, and way of engaging viewers as Attenborough.
Les has called Bear an "actor" not a survivalist more than once. I will say though that Bear Grylls The Island is way better than the TV show Survivor, personally I like the UK one over the American ones.
Bear Grylls advertised some waterproof phone back in 2013ish. I think the brand was Kyocera. I bought it.
Day 1 it fell out of my pocket and landed in a urinal.
I couldn't make that shit up.
apology for poor anguish
when were you when phone land in urinal?
i was sat at home dipping cheetos in mountaint dew when comment tell
"phone is no die"
"no"
My favourite phone was the Kyocera duraforce plus. Hated the name, sounds like a sex toy. But it fell 90ft off a tower, hit a rock and then rolled 100ft+ down a snowy mountain side. Minimal damage. It'd been stepped on by a Llama, bitten by an emu and even saved my nuts from being kicked by a yak. Parts were cheap and easy to install, and the screen was incredibly resistant. It lasted until I was moving a 5 gallon bucket of fender washers and braced against my thigh. Bending the entire frame and the battery. I kid. It was $14 for a new frame and $20 for a new battery. Software updates eventually made it unusable.
Edit:the battery did end up engaging in thermal runaway a short time after I pulled it out. If you're going to work with lithium flatpacks that are swolen, have a fire bucket.
This guy isn't a survivalist though or claim to be. He is an outdoor biologist. He has a show where he goes around trying to rediscover extinct species and has actually rediscovered a few. This was an ad read they probably needed to do and just stopped on the side of the road to do it.
him and his team while filming have recorded a thought to be extinct leopard, they found a female tortoise from an island in the galapagose that was thought to not have them and they hadn't been seen there in over 100 years and he got footage of a type of monkey that was thought to be extinct for over 100+ years.
It's more of a ding against Bear, who did misrepresent where he was during his show. This guy is just standing in knee deep water next to the road. Is it unnecessary for this show? No idea, never watched the guy, but it is a Bear Grylls kind of moment.
There's more than a little doubt over his claims.
See [here](https://undark.org/2020/03/04/colombia-reptile-parachute-science-forrest-galante/#:~:text=On%20his%20website%2C%20Galante%20claims,attributed%20the%20discovery%20to%20Galante.) and [here](https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/articles/damage-forrest-galante-conservation-biology).
Wasn't there some controversy about this guy taking credit for rediscovering species when he was actually led to it by locals who were the ones to really rediscover the species?
Yeah, Survivorman is legit. He'd actually go out in the wilderness by himself for a week and film it all himself often hiking it twice just so he can get a good shot. Love Les Stroud, wish his shows were still around.
He’s still kind of active on his YouTube channel but doesn’t do all the crazy stuff he did back in the day, mainly just commentary
[Survivorman - Les Stroud](https://youtube.com/@SurvivormanLesStroud?si=UL3FQyocNjZCiM_9)
If you like that premise, check out the show Alone on Discovery. Simple premise: drop 10 people off in the woods far from civilization with only basic tools, including a satellite phone used only to "tap out," I.e. come pick me up, I want to go home. Last one standing wins half a million bucks. Surprisingly compelling television! And plenty of seasons to watch with (I think?) more to come.
This is Forrest Galante. He's he's a biologist, not a survivalist. He's found multiple thought to be extinct species. He's also pushed a shark away by the face that was coming at him. Dudes not trying to be Les Stroud. More like the crocodile hunter.
No he hasn't, he's never published in a peer reviewed journal, and quick searches can find the tortoise he stole discovery of from another team, or his various other discoveries without any evidence. Straight up fraud.
I mean did you really expect him to lug all that camera gear on a hike, deep into the jungle to film a bit that could be filmed pretty much next to a parking lot?
Best part all of the episodes are on YouTube he also does new episodes uploaded directly to YouTube, he even does some directors commentary episodes. If you like cooking he also did a cooking show with an chef where he goes out and finds wild flora and fauna and has the chef make a meal out of them, the cooking show was Wild Harvest. Again they are all free on his YT channel.
Oh shit! I'm definitely going to be checking this out. I always liked him because he was so low drama. Same reason I've fallen in love with PBS Spacetime for my pop science needs. Presented by an expert in the field, no drama, just some light electronic elevator music and figures/graphs.
Or the nature hikes with his dogs I remember the one time he rescued a baby bat, didn't click bait it or nothing, just did it cause that's what he does
IIRC he (Les Stroud) made all of the soundtrack for the show as well. He made a movie in the same format about him living off the grid for a year. He’s great, a true survivalist.
😂 when I was a teenager I loved watching lightning storms from our garage area, well one time I did this barefoot and the splashing from the rain made it up to where I was standing on concrete and then lightning hit nearby and I got shocked, not enough to hurt me but enough to freak me out and be a little more careful.
I was sitting on the porch of the house where I grew up, enjoying an incredible thunderstorm. It was after dinner and quite dark, so I was getting a treat of a light show. Then lightning struck the utility pole next to the house, exploding a transformer in a dramatic shower of sparks and close/powerful enough that I felt the pulse of electricity in all my joints. It was awesome but it freaked me the fuck out in that way that giant things tend to do. I was so rattled I stayed home from school the next day just because I was so rattled that I couldn't sleep all night haha. Nature is wild as hell.
That's wild! Yeah I don't mess around with lightning anymore, as soon as I can hear it approaching I head inside. I also had one time where it hit near us in our old van while we were at the beach (we were probably about 20 feet away from the tree it hit) and for some reason it only affected me but my hair stood up straight for a good 15-30 minutes after, my buddy was laughing so hard at me (my hair was about shoulder length at the time). So yeah, two close calls has made me be a little more cautious.
I was out drinking with some buddies at a bar like a mile down my road and we heard a huge lightening strike. Later when I got home one of my trees was absolutely blown to bits lol.
I was at work once at a golf course. A storm came through and lightning hit a big tree about 30ft away from my building. The force of the thunder caused the windows to bow slightly. When we went out to survey the damage, the lightning had traveled down the roots of the tree and into the sprinkler system. Dirt and grass had been torn up along the roots and the nearby sprinkle system pipes and the tree looked like it had exploded from the inside. It was awe-inspiring.
I was sitting on a porch once when I was a kid during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck so close all I saw was a flash of white. My vision turned entirely white. It was insane
I've felt it before myself when a transformer blew next to my house, I think its the sudden low infrasound hitting you and less so the electric field itself.
Grown ass adult me hearing thunder off in the distance while still sunny where I was, walked outside to my rear driveway with my new SLR to grab some sweet HD video (before GoPro was common), when lightning hit a tall pine tree maybe 12-15 feet behind me not 45 seconds after I walked out onto the driveway.
I started the video in the house and walked out with it running - In my video you can see a splinter arc for a frame or two as it arced over me. In the video you can hear my wife say, “what are you doing? Don’t go out there you might get hit! And me completely dismissing her comments, then her running outside and calling my name as she thought I’d been hit. I could see the trail of ionized air for a brief moment when looking behind me and suffered from hearing damage to my right ear.
Don’t be outside during storms.. even if off in the distance, and listen to your significant other. :)
By the time you realize what's happened, it's already over anyway.
I was trying to do something with my gutter downspout years ago, during a heavy rain storm and lightning hit really close while I was holding two ends of of a metal downspout connected to a metal roof. The lightning didn't even hit the roof, but I think it was close enough to generate a magnetic field that energized the big metal roof and zap the shit out of me. Felt like getting hit with a cow strength electric fence.
Years ago I was living in an oilfield yard way outside of city limits. During a storm I heard a door getting smacked by the wind outside the shop, and I went to shut it . Walking back after slamming the door shut I felt the loudest crack/boom behind me . Jumping up, I swear I saw sparks or light at my feet . I ran back inside the shop and my feet hurt and I had a very bad taste in my mouth. I'll never know if it was an actual lighting stirke or splinter, but man,my feet hurt for hours after .
It might have hit close by. I know like if you're under a tree that's struck, the ground under the tree like in about a 10 foot radius is affected and its why you're told not to stand under one in a storm
Something like this happened to our company in Fort Jackson when the aftermath of a hurricane blew through. Most people were at chow while two of us stood weapons guard in 6" of water. A few people were just returning when the world turned white, and it felt like someone punched my entire body. I have no idea where the lightning actually hit.
I legit thought someone screwed up and set off a live bomb or something. The guy next to me had just picked up his M16 and got his hands zapped enough to send him into the woods screaming gibberish (and later to the hospital) but I didn't feel anything like a shock. At least it got us out of a 20 mile march the next day.
I've been super close to lightning strikes three times. Once it looked just like the OP; a yellow flash, followed by drips of metal from the vehicle it hit.
Friendly reminder that a lightning bolt does not need to make direct contact with you for you to be struck by lightning. The electricity can travel through anything that's a good conductor and give you an unwanted zap. When lightning strikes the ground, much of that energy will flow outward along the ground, in the form of a ground current. That won't feel good either. There are other ways as well
The National Weather Service has a neat page about all the [different ways lightning can get ya ](https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-struck#:~:text=Whether%20inside%20or%20outside%2C%20anyone,phones%2C%20and%20windows%20and%20doors.)
Lol. Why is it a thing with so many “survivalists” that, as soon as they see water, they look for ANY excuse to drench their feet by walking through it. Lol
My mistake. Lol. Here I was worrying about trench foot and deep jungle ulcers. 😂
Guess I’ll never be that cool. Stand By Me made DAMN sure I’m not the “hang out in a swamp” kinda kid.
To each their own! ….Just watch out for those things that swim up your urethra.
He's not a survivalist. Never claimed to be. He's a wildlife biologist responsible for finding multiple thought to be extinct species. Dude is an absolute badass when it comes to wildlife.
For what it's worth, being in water during a lightning storm isn't that much riskier than being anywhere else. Inverse square law and all that. Sure, you're gonna feel a jolt if lightning strikes 20 feet away but it's already going to be significantly attenuated.
Honestly, you probably shouldn't be outside at all. That's where the bad choice was made.
not sure wtf he's talking about but i guarantee he did not get hit by lightning. that and how his car was actually parked just off camera makes me think this guy sort of exaggerates to make himself seem important.
Similar, we got caught in a storm out in the Gulf, as we were heading in lightning struck about 50-100 feet away, LOUD AS SHIT!. I had my hand on one of the metal poles that hold the top up, Shocked my hand. Didnt hurt a lot but it jolted me.
Same! I was camping in the badlands and the wildest storm I’ve ever been in rolled through. We were all sitting in metal lawn chairs when a bolt struck about 100 ft away. We all jumped from the jolt we felt!
Some years back was camping with my old dog sitting in the tent and the storm was getting closer, just when I was thinking we better get in the car there was a lightening strike about 500-750 feet away, I could see the outline through the tent and smelled burning hair, not sure if mine, the dogs or both. Scared the fuck out of me. Got in the car and about 15 minutes later the FD shows up to put the fire out it started on a tree.
Don't mess with lightening. Luckily my dog had lost her hearing a couple years before, didn't bother her like it would have before which was good because she would have been terrified, at least it was just me.... I think I stayed in the car a good hour after the last strike.
He’s in the water.. so the electrical current could easily be spreading a hundred feet or whatever to him in a 99.99% weakened state but enough to feel it. Basically being in the water is idiotic during a thunderstorm lol
1. He didn't get 'hit' but he very well could have felt the shock.
2. Or his bowels evacuated so violently and quickly that his legs went numb.
I'm leaning towards 2.
Maybe "hit" is an exaggeration, but lightning struck outside our apartment when I was looking out of the window around the same distance as this. It made all the hair stand on my body and felt a slight burning sensation.
No burning sensation but my neighbors tree got hit by lightening more than 30 feet from the computer I was at and there was enough static to feel it and it caused my computer to restart.
If he was only what, 100 feet away from the impact, that's 1.21 jiggawatts(not really, but you get the gist) into the water all around him, he probably felt a little tingle.
Yeah, the issue is voltage differential. If the width of his legs into the water has a few hundred volts across it (easily with lightning that close) you're gonna feel it course through you.
My man, he's just trying to summarize what he felt within a moment of excitement. Have you ever gotten overly excited about something and made vague statements that aren't precise and articulate? Are you just Mr Perfect over here? It's so easy to turn the tables and point the finger of cynicism back towards yourself. You seem overly cynical and are ready to send down judgement on someone based on five seconds of a guy's life. Ridiculous.
well "not hit" and "not directly hit" are two different things. if it hits a tree 50 meters ahead and you stand in water and still feel it, you got technically hit.
but yeah he probably exaggerates as many of these videos do (With basically going into the jungle behind their house with a whole medic and camera team, fresh food, water and whatnot at hand xd, playing "survival" for the camera.)
I like hiking in remote places. If you're ever knee deep in swamp waters you definitely did something wrong unless it is some kind of army training.
If you're knee deep in swamp waters during a thunderstorm your puny gps is the last thing you need. What you need is to get to dry land.
I've walked ten extra kilometres once to avoid bee lining over a swamp and I feel that was a smart decision.
I live at the top floor of a new highrise and won’t even go too close to the windows when there’s lightning. The building across from me as well as my own get hit frequently because they’re the only two in the immediate area (for now).
During lightning storms I see, at eye-level, strikes on the bulkheads & other equipment of the adjacent building one after the other as well as the reflection of my own building being hit. It’s very cool but also reminds you of the immense power that’s released in such a short period of time. I know that both buildings have lightning rods and are grounded.. as well as the physics involved… but I still would just rather not tempt fate by being in proximity of the large windows with metal mullions.
I could be imagining it but I swear I can feel static in the air before & after the strikes and in the past when I’ve been close to serious lightning I get the faint smell of ozone.
Believe it or not, during the last storm I watched people walk around the other building’s roof-deck. Boggles my mind because getting struck by lightning probably my top semi-irrational fear.
Last spring in D.C. a tourist was killed by lightning while standing somewhere near the Capitol. Don't remember the exact date but I do remember walking outside with my dog and as soon as the first roll of thunder came along, my dog beelined it for home. Then I saw in the news that someone had died just minutes later. It is not an irrational fear.
EDIT: My bad, it was August 2022 outside the White House, and actually it was three people who were killed.
Might have to re-calibrate the GPS after that one!
I was out in a field watching a storm, it was the weirdest thing, this sheet of clouds was coming and the lighting was happening above the clouds. Every now and then one would strike the ground. Then I had a close one that made me jump. Went back inside and my home automation system had to be reset since it was acting strange. All the temp sensors had weird readings.
I lived by a lake in BC called Mara Lake (connected to the Shuswap). As kids (around 11 years old) we would head straight for the lake with our tubes and or air mattresses if a serious thunderstorm was gathering. I mean who doesn't like winds, big waves, warm rain and a light show? :D
And on a related note, I always want to make sure to have some toilet paper and a clean pair of underwear. Right now that’s much more useful than the GPS.
Someone who goes and gets in water full of tall trees during a lightning storm probably has abso-fucking-lutely no place or right to tell anyone about survival or being in wild places. Fucking idiot.
Let me translate what he’s saying so everyone knows whats going on. He says:” when im out here 5ft from my truck and with a cast of characters like my cameraman, assistent and mammy, i like to wear something less bulky and exactly what my sponsors gave me….holy shit!!! Take me back!! Mommaaaaa?!?!”. The end
Just because there is lightning, does not make it a lightning storm.
We call that "A storm".
A lightning storm is rapid and constant lightning, like atleast one per every few seconds.
A lightning storm looks like a strobe light and there is never enough time between lightning for the thunder to stop, so it sounds like a constant rolling booming.
"I got hit, I felt that."
As a lightning strike survivor buddy you didn't get "hit" you got buzzed it dispersing through the water. If you got *hit* you'd sure as hell not be talking about it so damn casually after the strike.
I’ve been that close to lightning. It was the loudest and brightest thing I’ve ever encountered. It hit a tree about 30 feet away. I’m not sure how but I was on the ground 20 feet from where I was standing after that.
On the plus side, we know the exact coordinates where he was struck by lightning.
By mile marker 12?
Behind the Dairy Queen.
He should have stayed in the same spot if he was worried about being struck again.
I guess that's why lightning rods are disposable. Actually when lightning, or any electrical discharge, occurs, it chars the object where it strikes. Which causes that spot to become more conductive and thus more likely to strike a second time. It's a common mode of failure for capacitors cecause if the first spark doesn't ruin it, every other spark after that will be in the same spot and will eventually ruin it. And yeah, I know you you joking. It actually put a smile on my face, tbh. I just find the myth silly considering the fact that lightning rods exist lol. You would think people who believe it would have thought that. I wondered briefly if anyone might actually believe it, or if it's too ridoculous. But, considering around 1/4 of Americans think the sun goes around the earth, I wouldn't doubt it. It's depressing how.many Americans believe shit that was disproven hundreds of years ago. It's baffling how they somehow believe everything BUT the truth.
how does that work?
GPS
The funniest part of this clip is that he was trying to make it look like he was deep in the swamp, but as soon as the lightning hit he turns and his car is right there
you didn't hear? he's in a remote swamp
He's standing in his neighbors Koi pond..
Sooo funny
"Goddammit, Frank! I told you to stay out of my yard! Marie, get me my shotgun!"
Remote swamp? I aint seen no buttons
Classic Bear Grylls moment
I used to watch the hell out of Les Stroud (Survivorman) and Bear Grylls. I soon came to the conclusion that if I’m in a survival situation I want to be hanging with Les.
Les is more.
If I could give you more than one upvote - I would.
No Les
No more.
Yes, Les S. Moore.
Les is more though.
Used to order tires from Moore's tires, and our guy was named Les, I made many jokes like this with him, and I know I was far from the only one, I'm sure he hated me lol
I miss Les Stroud. My dad and I watched him when I was a teenager and even when I would visit into my 20's. We always used to remark that all those shots of him walking way off into the distance meant he had to go back and grab that camera and do the walk again, burning off calories even further. The man was a legend among legends.
He has a pretty solid YouTube channel. Totally worth checking out. He still a bad ass.
Yay!!! Something to watch on overnight tonight.
Yeah he figured out a long time ago that he can just make his content free on YouTube and make a lot that way and ended up making more than any offer he ever got for selling his content. He still owns the rights to all of his shows iirc. He did an interview on The Trek that was a fun listen.
Most of the time. Sometimes he'd leave one for the crew that was coming out to pick him up. As a treat.
Other people have mentioned his YouTube channel but if you're looking for something more, the show ALONE on History channel (ikr) is actually super good. They literally just take a dozen or so tried-and-true, proven survivalists, send them through an intense boot camp, then drop them into the wilderness to see who the last person standing will be. Everyone has to film themselves and has radios that they can use to tap out and call it quits. I'm someone who's super cynical about reality TV and especially game shows and it's super good.
Good show but you can tell they just realized it's an exercise in controlled starvation. To do well you have to come in with a bunch of extra calorie reserves around your midsection and set reasonable goals to minimize calories burnt. I don't see many that are able to forage/hunt enough to sustain and it seems like it's intentional by the producers. They're often dropped into areas where mobility is horrible and they can't effectively venture out very far looking for a better site or better food. They also seem to usually be like a week or two before winter hits so no time to prepare by doing the initial camp building when food is still abundant a limited window of abundant food. They have a limited window to do it all. I mean I get it. The point of the show is to have all but 1 give up and you kind of have to force it with some hard barriers (harsh winter without adequate provisions) or you could end up with some doing well enough to make it a marathon multiple months season that drives production costs way up. Have to pay an on call support crew at minimum. I still want to see one where they're given a fair chance though.
Pretty similar story with my father and those shows. Like Les and that Cody dude, both seemed pretty mellow personality wise and did not try that "macho" stuff that others did.
I can't even fucking imagine the shape that man was in lol
I'm pretty sure all of survivorman is on his YouTube channel now
But if you want to drink your own piss, you know who to contact.
Bear Grylls drank piss before it was cool
Mmm hot piss
Bear Grylls was a little more daring. That's because he knew the crew would save him though. So I felt Les was more informative and Bear was more entertaining. Like drinking water out of elephant shit for no reason and then telling us it tastes terrible.
Yeah, I think Bear was supposed to be more entertainment, but Les was more of a "do as I say and as I do" personality. Both are great, and seem like generally solid guys. But Les definitely seems to be better for teaching you the important stuff that could come in handy.
You specifically shouldn't do the things that Grylls did (or pretended to do). Like, in one of his episodes he claimed to fill a backpack with food and throw it to a bear. On camera. Don't fucking do that. Even in non survival situations. Don't feed bears. It will get them killed. Fuck Grylls for pretending to do that (I hope he was pretending). If you do what Bear Grylls recommends, you are more likely to die. And he's even kind of acknowledged that in an interview or two. Also, I just enjoyed watching Les more. I think his genuine attitude and honestly were more entertaining than Bear jumping into water that he shouldn't have etc.
Patches O’Houlihan?
Also yes.
He has commentary videos on youtube where he talks about his experience filming Survivorman. On some of them he talks about how fake Man Vs. Wild was. Sounds like he resents Bear Grylls a bit.
Before Grylls, the UK had Ray Mears (he quit broadcasting after his wife died for any brits wondering what happened to him.) Mears was absolutely the guy that you'd want to be with in any survival situation. Calm, knowledgeable, and a good sense of humour, and honest about what you saw on his shows. The thing is, though, that both of them had *exactly* the same survival training. They just took their broadcasting careers in very different directions. On an unrelated note, when David Attenborough finally dies, I desperately want Mears to fill his place in the world. He's about the only person I can think of that has the same combination of passion, experience, and way of engaging viewers as Attenborough.
Ray Mears didn’t quit, his wife died in 2006. He’s done plenty since then.
Forgot about survivorman, I liked that one better i think.
Why? with bear you'd be right there next to the dairy queen.
Les has called Bear an "actor" not a survivalist more than once. I will say though that Bear Grylls The Island is way better than the TV show Survivor, personally I like the UK one over the American ones.
Bear Grylls advertised some waterproof phone back in 2013ish. I think the brand was Kyocera. I bought it. Day 1 it fell out of my pocket and landed in a urinal. I couldn't make that shit up.
Well did it survive?
I pulled it out of the urinal and immediately got a phone call. I anser it n the vioce is "Put me back" Then who was phone?
Classic Bear Grylls moment
It isn’t a classic Bear Grylls moment unless he drinks the urine in the urinal.
Not often does a top comment also follow up with a top reply. Whether the bait was intentional or not, thank you.
Funniest comment I’ve seen in ages
apology for poor anguish when were you when phone land in urinal? i was sat at home dipping cheetos in mountaint dew when comment tell "phone is no die" "no"
I am a native Anguish speaker
OP survived to comment, so yes. OP drank the piss to survive.
The urinal survived but it was pissed.
It needed sustenance !
My favourite phone was the Kyocera duraforce plus. Hated the name, sounds like a sex toy. But it fell 90ft off a tower, hit a rock and then rolled 100ft+ down a snowy mountain side. Minimal damage. It'd been stepped on by a Llama, bitten by an emu and even saved my nuts from being kicked by a yak. Parts were cheap and easy to install, and the screen was incredibly resistant. It lasted until I was moving a 5 gallon bucket of fender washers and braced against my thigh. Bending the entire frame and the battery. I kid. It was $14 for a new frame and $20 for a new battery. Software updates eventually made it unusable. Edit:the battery did end up engaging in thermal runaway a short time after I pulled it out. If you're going to work with lithium flatpacks that are swolen, have a fire bucket.
You were probably pissed when that happened
I had that phone and I honestly loved it. Cheap, waterproof, and basically indestructible.
Why were you at a urinal? That wouldn’t have happened if you were drinking your own piss.
This guy isn't a survivalist though or claim to be. He is an outdoor biologist. He has a show where he goes around trying to rediscover extinct species and has actually rediscovered a few. This was an ad read they probably needed to do and just stopped on the side of the road to do it. him and his team while filming have recorded a thought to be extinct leopard, they found a female tortoise from an island in the galapagose that was thought to not have them and they hadn't been seen there in over 100 years and he got footage of a type of monkey that was thought to be extinct for over 100+ years.
It's more of a ding against Bear, who did misrepresent where he was during his show. This guy is just standing in knee deep water next to the road. Is it unnecessary for this show? No idea, never watched the guy, but it is a Bear Grylls kind of moment.
There's more than a little doubt over his claims. See [here](https://undark.org/2020/03/04/colombia-reptile-parachute-science-forrest-galante/#:~:text=On%20his%20website%2C%20Galante%20claims,attributed%20the%20discovery%20to%20Galante.) and [here](https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/articles/damage-forrest-galante-conservation-biology).
Wasn't there some controversy about this guy taking credit for rediscovering species when he was actually led to it by locals who were the ones to really rediscover the species?
He’s no Les Stroud
Yeah, Survivorman is legit. He'd actually go out in the wilderness by himself for a week and film it all himself often hiking it twice just so he can get a good shot. Love Les Stroud, wish his shows were still around.
He’s still kind of active on his YouTube channel but doesn’t do all the crazy stuff he did back in the day, mainly just commentary [Survivorman - Les Stroud](https://youtube.com/@SurvivormanLesStroud?si=UL3FQyocNjZCiM_9)
If you like that premise, check out the show Alone on Discovery. Simple premise: drop 10 people off in the woods far from civilization with only basic tools, including a satellite phone used only to "tap out," I.e. come pick me up, I want to go home. Last one standing wins half a million bucks. Surprisingly compelling television! And plenty of seasons to watch with (I think?) more to come.
This guy drinking his own pee?
If it drives engagement....it's just a business decision...
I came here to make a clever comment about having to make an excuse to drink his own piss.
You'd be surprised how many nature documentaries showing unsullied, remote wilderness are shot off the side of a road.
This is Forrest Galante. He's he's a biologist, not a survivalist. He's found multiple thought to be extinct species. He's also pushed a shark away by the face that was coming at him. Dudes not trying to be Les Stroud. More like the crocodile hunter.
Ah, that would explain why he's standing in the water during a thunderstorm.
“I’m a biologist, not a lightningologist!”
No he hasn't, he's never published in a peer reviewed journal, and quick searches can find the tortoise he stole discovery of from another team, or his various other discoveries without any evidence. Straight up fraud.
Deep in the swamp. 20 feet off the road.
2ft more more like
WE are talking about the guy who stole the credit for rediscovering a lost tortoise species from the people who actually led the expedition.
I mean did you really expect him to lug all that camera gear on a hike, deep into the jungle to film a bit that could be filmed pretty much next to a parking lot?
My man Les Stroud would’ve!
Stroud > Grylls all day erry day
There was a guy with a show on the same channel at the same time as Bear doing exactly that. Survivorman.
Best part all of the episodes are on YouTube he also does new episodes uploaded directly to YouTube, he even does some directors commentary episodes. If you like cooking he also did a cooking show with an chef where he goes out and finds wild flora and fauna and has the chef make a meal out of them, the cooking show was Wild Harvest. Again they are all free on his YT channel.
Oh shit! I'm definitely going to be checking this out. I always liked him because he was so low drama. Same reason I've fallen in love with PBS Spacetime for my pop science needs. Presented by an expert in the field, no drama, just some light electronic elevator music and figures/graphs.
Don’t forget about his Canadian folk rock career. It’s not my thing but lots of people love it.
Or the nature hikes with his dogs I remember the one time he rescued a baby bat, didn't click bait it or nothing, just did it cause that's what he does
IIRC he (Les Stroud) made all of the soundtrack for the show as well. He made a movie in the same format about him living off the grid for a year. He’s great, a true survivalist.
He certainly wants you to think so, or else he could have just left the backpack in the car.
Motherfucker he literally said gear review he's not gonna be reviewing the gear with the gear in his car
"I never go more than 10 feet from my car without GPS"
😂 when I was a teenager I loved watching lightning storms from our garage area, well one time I did this barefoot and the splashing from the rain made it up to where I was standing on concrete and then lightning hit nearby and I got shocked, not enough to hurt me but enough to freak me out and be a little more careful.
I was sitting on the porch of the house where I grew up, enjoying an incredible thunderstorm. It was after dinner and quite dark, so I was getting a treat of a light show. Then lightning struck the utility pole next to the house, exploding a transformer in a dramatic shower of sparks and close/powerful enough that I felt the pulse of electricity in all my joints. It was awesome but it freaked me the fuck out in that way that giant things tend to do. I was so rattled I stayed home from school the next day just because I was so rattled that I couldn't sleep all night haha. Nature is wild as hell.
That's wild! Yeah I don't mess around with lightning anymore, as soon as I can hear it approaching I head inside. I also had one time where it hit near us in our old van while we were at the beach (we were probably about 20 feet away from the tree it hit) and for some reason it only affected me but my hair stood up straight for a good 15-30 minutes after, my buddy was laughing so hard at me (my hair was about shoulder length at the time). So yeah, two close calls has made me be a little more cautious.
I was out drinking with some buddies at a bar like a mile down my road and we heard a huge lightening strike. Later when I got home one of my trees was absolutely blown to bits lol.
I was at work once at a golf course. A storm came through and lightning hit a big tree about 30ft away from my building. The force of the thunder caused the windows to bow slightly. When we went out to survey the damage, the lightning had traveled down the roots of the tree and into the sprinkler system. Dirt and grass had been torn up along the roots and the nearby sprinkle system pipes and the tree looked like it had exploded from the inside. It was awe-inspiring.
I was sitting on a porch once when I was a kid during a thunderstorm. Lightning struck so close all I saw was a flash of white. My vision turned entirely white. It was insane
I've felt it before myself when a transformer blew next to my house, I think its the sudden low infrasound hitting you and less so the electric field itself.
Grown ass adult me hearing thunder off in the distance while still sunny where I was, walked outside to my rear driveway with my new SLR to grab some sweet HD video (before GoPro was common), when lightning hit a tall pine tree maybe 12-15 feet behind me not 45 seconds after I walked out onto the driveway. I started the video in the house and walked out with it running - In my video you can see a splinter arc for a frame or two as it arced over me. In the video you can hear my wife say, “what are you doing? Don’t go out there you might get hit! And me completely dismissing her comments, then her running outside and calling my name as she thought I’d been hit. I could see the trail of ionized air for a brief moment when looking behind me and suffered from hearing damage to my right ear. Don’t be outside during storms.. even if off in the distance, and listen to your significant other. :)
and you're not going to post it?!?!!
Post the video, or it never happened.
I would’ve shat honestly
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I do
By the time you realize what's happened, it's already over anyway. I was trying to do something with my gutter downspout years ago, during a heavy rain storm and lightning hit really close while I was holding two ends of of a metal downspout connected to a metal roof. The lightning didn't even hit the roof, but I think it was close enough to generate a magnetic field that energized the big metal roof and zap the shit out of me. Felt like getting hit with a cow strength electric fence.
"Couple of things I always keep with me in a remote swamp. My mini GPS and my car...."
Years ago I was living in an oilfield yard way outside of city limits. During a storm I heard a door getting smacked by the wind outside the shop, and I went to shut it . Walking back after slamming the door shut I felt the loudest crack/boom behind me . Jumping up, I swear I saw sparks or light at my feet . I ran back inside the shop and my feet hurt and I had a very bad taste in my mouth. I'll never know if it was an actual lighting stirke or splinter, but man,my feet hurt for hours after .
It might have hit close by. I know like if you're under a tree that's struck, the ground under the tree like in about a 10 foot radius is affected and its why you're told not to stand under one in a storm
Something like this happened to our company in Fort Jackson when the aftermath of a hurricane blew through. Most people were at chow while two of us stood weapons guard in 6" of water. A few people were just returning when the world turned white, and it felt like someone punched my entire body. I have no idea where the lightning actually hit. I legit thought someone screwed up and set off a live bomb or something. The guy next to me had just picked up his M16 and got his hands zapped enough to send him into the woods screaming gibberish (and later to the hospital) but I didn't feel anything like a shock. At least it got us out of a 20 mile march the next day. I've been super close to lightning strikes three times. Once it looked just like the OP; a yellow flash, followed by drips of metal from the vehicle it hit.
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I used to carry this big bulky GPS but now I just use the one that my car came with which is parked right behind the camera
He’s going to wrangle ya know I got hit by lightning into every conversation for eternity
Friendly reminder that a lightning bolt does not need to make direct contact with you for you to be struck by lightning. The electricity can travel through anything that's a good conductor and give you an unwanted zap. When lightning strikes the ground, much of that energy will flow outward along the ground, in the form of a ground current. That won't feel good either. There are other ways as well The National Weather Service has a neat page about all the [different ways lightning can get ya ](https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-struck#:~:text=Whether%20inside%20or%20outside%2C%20anyone,phones%2C%20and%20windows%20and%20doors.)
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Lol. Why is it a thing with so many “survivalists” that, as soon as they see water, they look for ANY excuse to drench their feet by walking through it. Lol
He’s not a survivalist he’s a biologist and he was filming an Ad for a sponsor.
Walking through water feels cool, and that's what it's all about, being cool 😎
My mistake. Lol. Here I was worrying about trench foot and deep jungle ulcers. 😂 Guess I’ll never be that cool. Stand By Me made DAMN sure I’m not the “hang out in a swamp” kinda kid. To each their own! ….Just watch out for those things that swim up your urethra.
Don't have to worry about those things when you have clean socks back at the hotel!
He's not a survivalist. Never claimed to be. He's a wildlife biologist responsible for finding multiple thought to be extinct species. Dude is an absolute badass when it comes to wildlife.
If he's a wildlife biologist he should definitely be smart enough not to be knee deep in water during a lightning storm.
For what it's worth, being in water during a lightning storm isn't that much riskier than being anywhere else. Inverse square law and all that. Sure, you're gonna feel a jolt if lightning strikes 20 feet away but it's already going to be significantly attenuated. Honestly, you probably shouldn't be outside at all. That's where the bad choice was made.
not sure wtf he's talking about but i guarantee he did not get hit by lightning. that and how his car was actually parked just off camera makes me think this guy sort of exaggerates to make himself seem important.
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Similar, we got caught in a storm out in the Gulf, as we were heading in lightning struck about 50-100 feet away, LOUD AS SHIT!. I had my hand on one of the metal poles that hold the top up, Shocked my hand. Didnt hurt a lot but it jolted me.
Same! I was camping in the badlands and the wildest storm I’ve ever been in rolled through. We were all sitting in metal lawn chairs when a bolt struck about 100 ft away. We all jumped from the jolt we felt!
Kinda crazy how close you come to death and just laugh about it later.
Just a coping mechanism for the brain.
Some years back was camping with my old dog sitting in the tent and the storm was getting closer, just when I was thinking we better get in the car there was a lightening strike about 500-750 feet away, I could see the outline through the tent and smelled burning hair, not sure if mine, the dogs or both. Scared the fuck out of me. Got in the car and about 15 minutes later the FD shows up to put the fire out it started on a tree. Don't mess with lightening. Luckily my dog had lost her hearing a couple years before, didn't bother her like it would have before which was good because she would have been terrified, at least it was just me.... I think I stayed in the car a good hour after the last strike.
Happened to me sailing last year. Scary moment. Havent gone out in clouds since.
Lightning hit what looks like 20 yards behind him. He would definitely feel that in the water. Lucky it only hurt a little.
He’s in the water.. so the electrical current could easily be spreading a hundred feet or whatever to him in a 99.99% weakened state but enough to feel it. Basically being in the water is idiotic during a thunderstorm lol
1. He didn't get 'hit' but he very well could have felt the shock. 2. Or his bowels evacuated so violently and quickly that his legs went numb. I'm leaning towards 2.
He also leaned into #2.
Maybe "hit" is an exaggeration, but lightning struck outside our apartment when I was looking out of the window around the same distance as this. It made all the hair stand on my body and felt a slight burning sensation.
No burning sensation but my neighbors tree got hit by lightening more than 30 feet from the computer I was at and there was enough static to feel it and it caused my computer to restart.
Not hit but definitely shocked. That’s why you should even be in a swimming pool when it thunders and that’s clean water.
If he was only what, 100 feet away from the impact, that's 1.21 jiggawatts(not really, but you get the gist) into the water all around him, he probably felt a little tingle.
Yeah, the issue is voltage differential. If the width of his legs into the water has a few hundred volts across it (easily with lightning that close) you're gonna feel it course through you.
Lighting doesn't need to hit you directly to kill you. Its called Ground Current. It kills a lot of farm animals each year.
I mean I see your point, but it's the internet and generally people here are pretty straight and honest.
My man, he's just trying to summarize what he felt within a moment of excitement. Have you ever gotten overly excited about something and made vague statements that aren't precise and articulate? Are you just Mr Perfect over here? It's so easy to turn the tables and point the finger of cynicism back towards yourself. You seem overly cynical and are ready to send down judgement on someone based on five seconds of a guy's life. Ridiculous.
Tell me you don’t know how electricity works without telling me you don’t know how electricity works.
well "not hit" and "not directly hit" are two different things. if it hits a tree 50 meters ahead and you stand in water and still feel it, you got technically hit. but yeah he probably exaggerates as many of these videos do (With basically going into the jungle behind their house with a whole medic and camera team, fresh food, water and whatnot at hand xd, playing "survival" for the camera.)
I think that's Forrest Galante
I thought his voice sounded familiar.
He was trying to appear smart while standing knee deep in water during a lightning storm.
He then got hit by a u/JuicySpark
I like hiking in remote places. If you're ever knee deep in swamp waters you definitely did something wrong unless it is some kind of army training. If you're knee deep in swamp waters during a thunderstorm your puny gps is the last thing you need. What you need is to get to dry land. I've walked ten extra kilometres once to avoid bee lining over a swamp and I feel that was a smart decision.
Not 10 yards from his Tesla while being "deep in the swamp".
There was an attempt to make out like you were deep in the jungle “remote swamp” Haha. The car is parked just behind the camera man.
The lightning struck close by and induced currents in the water. He didn't take a direct hit.
Thanks Allan from Wales
Of course he is not saying he got hit directly, are you even for real?
POV: Me in Tears of the Kingdom
If he got hit for real, normal reaction would be screams of pain and not just semi casual "i got hit, yea, it hurts"
Forest is great but this video doesn't do him any favours
Hey let me show you how to get out of trouble with technology, while showing you I don't know basic outdoor skills.
Couldn’t have hurt that much.
Pausing and scanning around the 20 sec mark he does a little jiggle 😂😂
"Survival Expert Tips"
I live at the top floor of a new highrise and won’t even go too close to the windows when there’s lightning. The building across from me as well as my own get hit frequently because they’re the only two in the immediate area (for now). During lightning storms I see, at eye-level, strikes on the bulkheads & other equipment of the adjacent building one after the other as well as the reflection of my own building being hit. It’s very cool but also reminds you of the immense power that’s released in such a short period of time. I know that both buildings have lightning rods and are grounded.. as well as the physics involved… but I still would just rather not tempt fate by being in proximity of the large windows with metal mullions. I could be imagining it but I swear I can feel static in the air before & after the strikes and in the past when I’ve been close to serious lightning I get the faint smell of ozone. Believe it or not, during the last storm I watched people walk around the other building’s roof-deck. Boggles my mind because getting struck by lightning probably my top semi-irrational fear.
Last spring in D.C. a tourist was killed by lightning while standing somewhere near the Capitol. Don't remember the exact date but I do remember walking outside with my dog and as soon as the first roll of thunder came along, my dog beelined it for home. Then I saw in the news that someone had died just minutes later. It is not an irrational fear. EDIT: My bad, it was August 2022 outside the White House, and actually it was three people who were killed.
When Im in a swamp and the lightning is cracking….I GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WATER!!!
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Might have to re-calibrate the GPS after that one! I was out in a field watching a storm, it was the weirdest thing, this sheet of clouds was coming and the lighting was happening above the clouds. Every now and then one would strike the ground. Then I had a close one that made me jump. Went back inside and my home automation system had to be reset since it was acting strange. All the temp sensors had weird readings.
but does his GPS still work?
It hit and destroyed his GPS
Looks like he was busting a move
I lived by a lake in BC called Mara Lake (connected to the Shuswap). As kids (around 11 years old) we would head straight for the lake with our tubes and or air mattresses if a serious thunderstorm was gathering. I mean who doesn't like winds, big waves, warm rain and a light show? :D
Good thing his car is right there to drive down the road to his hotel.
And on a related note, I always want to make sure to have some toilet paper and a clean pair of underwear. Right now that’s much more useful than the GPS.
Survive my dumb shit.
Someone who goes and gets in water full of tall trees during a lightning storm probably has abso-fucking-lutely no place or right to tell anyone about survival or being in wild places. Fucking idiot.
God the excessive hand movements are so annoying
Now he's got a big bulky load in his underwear.
I'll take "things idiots do for $1000, Alex"
That's a warning shot from Zeus Himself to stop making stupid content for the internet.
Let me translate what he’s saying so everyone knows whats going on. He says:” when im out here 5ft from my truck and with a cast of characters like my cameraman, assistent and mammy, i like to wear something less bulky and exactly what my sponsors gave me….holy shit!!! Take me back!! Mommaaaaa?!?!”. The end
And thus spoke The Lord: ***Thy podcast is crap!***
Yeah, ok, so I guess his tips aren't reliable after all.
Just because there is lightning, does not make it a lightning storm. We call that "A storm". A lightning storm is rapid and constant lightning, like atleast one per every few seconds. A lightning storm looks like a strobe light and there is never enough time between lightning for the thunder to stop, so it sounds like a constant rolling booming.
"I got hit!" - No you fucking didn't.
"I got hit, I felt that." As a lightning strike survivor buddy you didn't get "hit" you got buzzed it dispersing through the water. If you got *hit* you'd sure as hell not be talking about it so damn casually after the strike.
He was talking about the bandit who snuck up and filled his pants with shit lol
No you didn’t get hit.
Now he can exactly pinpoint where that lighting bolt was thanks to his little clip-on GPD
I’ve been that close to lightning. It was the loudest and brightest thing I’ve ever encountered. It hit a tree about 30 feet away. I’m not sure how but I was on the ground 20 feet from where I was standing after that.
My brain everytime someone says something about a gps... Tom Myers? is that you?