Filtering sea water through shirt

[Trigger Mike]

I just read a news article where a kid from Indonesia was adrift for 49 days and filtered sea water through his shirt to lower the salt .  It did not say if he suffered kidney damage from it. Would it work? Would a shirt be enough?

[Pat Riot]

Nope.

 

Either someone got it wrong or that kid is Superman.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Trigger Mike:

     You read the article right.

Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut

             

 

"The teenager only had a few days worth of supplies and survived by catching fish, burning wood from his hut to cook them, and sipping seawater through his clothes to minimize his salt intake."

     http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/indonesian-teenager-survives-49-days-adrift-at-sea-in-fishing-hut/ar-AAAyJ0X?ocid=ientp

[Joke 'um]

Sorry, the salt in seawater is dissolved and can't be "filtered" short of membrane (R.O.) type technology.  Clothing would remove only suspended particles too large to get through the weave.

If this were true, navys would have switched to this long ago and avoided those expensive distilling units.

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

Kid has an iron gut. 

[Utah Bob #35998]

According to the news tonight,  the boy wrung rainwater out of his clothes to drink. Not saltwater. Makes since.

[Chief Rick]

23 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

According to the news tonight,  the boy wrung rainwater out of his clothes to drink. Not saltwater. Makes since.

Could also get good moisture content from fresh caught fish.

[Utah Bob #35998]

2 hours ago, Chief Rick said:

Could also get good moisture content from fresh caught fish.

They said he used wood from the shack to make a fire to cook the fish. I guess he’s not fond of sushi. But cooking it would both lessen the nutritional value and dry it out (not to mention building a fire on a wood boat/raft/shack seems, at best, a little risky)

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

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