Aldi Adilang was lost at sea for 49 days and used his tshirt to filter ocean water and then drank it. How does this work?

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Aldi Adilang was lost at sea for 49 days and used his tshirt to filter ocean water and then drank it. How does this work?

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Answer 1

It wouldn’t work. Dissolved salt would not be filtered by clothing.

From the news articles, he was eating fish, so that was supplying him with enough water to survive.

Any seawater he tried filtering by clothing was doing more harm than good. He probably collected rainwater as well, though at sea, everything is covered in salt and hard to collect fresh rainwater.

He had fire, so it’s also possible he was distilling water.

The articles are probably suffering from poor translations, as well.