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Article: Dying Of Thirst: How to find water when your life depends on it.(Survival)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Byline: Keith McCafferty
Rob a man of matches, and he can still hunker out of the wind. Take away his dinner, and his body can feed off its own muscle. But deny him water, and he dies.
If he is an injured Coues deer hunter in the Arizona desert or a fisherman stranded on an island off the Louisiana coast, the additional fluid loss through perspiration will bring him to his maker in four days, even if he does nothing but pray for salvation. The irony is that sportsmen who get stranded without water do not need a miracle to survive: They are within reach of enough water to prolong life; many just don't know where to find it.
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