response and a kayak misadventure

Response to ALONE article from one reader

What follows is our conversation.

-From: John Williamson
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2023 5:45 PM
To: Wiggys <wiggys@Wiggys.com>
Subject: Re: Wiggy's News & Commentary › my legacy

What we need is a Wiggy equipped survival show.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 7:03 PM Wiggy's Inc. <wiggys@wiggys.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:09 PM John Williamson <wrote:

Production costs on these shows are relatively tiny. I bet you could crowd fund it with your cult following and just a few of your most credible users signing on to provide commentary.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 8:07 PM Jerry Home Laptop <wiggys4@wiggys.com> wrote:

maybe some day

On sun, June 18,2023, 8:30 JOHN WILLIAMSON

Part of the deal is the quality of video they get isn't correlated heavily with how long they last. Especially when after about 50 days people just stay in their hut and slowly starve. The cost does correlate though. The show scenario is really "surviving in British Columbia as an idiot". They don't take the right equipment, they show up a month before winter, they can't use efficient food procurement methods like gill nets until half the contestants are out, etc. They don't want them to go 150 days because then they have to keep the rescue crew and others on standby that whole time.

John’s analogy may be accurate.

Edinburgh adventurer attempts to kayak the Arctic’s Northwest Passage in world's first

[An Edinburgh adventurer and his team are set to embark on a gruelling test of endurance as they attempt to become the first people to ever kayak the Arctic’s Northwest Passage.

Unbelievably, Mark Agnew, who grew up in Marchmont and now lives in London, will undertake the incredible challenge with three people who he has never met face to face. The 32-year-old dad has always dreamed of becoming a world record holder and he has now set his sights on being part of a team that would be the first to complete the passage using only human power over a single summer.

As if the stakes were not high enough, the group of four will be navigating a route that is populated by polar bears, killer whales and walruses. They are due to begin the world record attempt on July 1, setting off from Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada, and hope to finish 90 days later at Tuktoyaktuk, an Inuit hamlet in Canada, as they follow the historic Arctic route that links the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Mark, who works as a journalist, previously attempted to set the world record for rowing across the Atlantic twice but didn’t successfully cross the ocean. After two failed attempts, one in 2016 and another in 2018, Mark suffered a mental health spiral, with the devastation of failure making him feel worthless and unmotivated.

“After failing to row the Atlantic twice, I felt utterly worthless. I was overcome with feelings of humiliation and failure,” he said.

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The route Mark and his team will follow is the same route sought by the British Arctic exploration voyage led by Sir John Franklin in 1845 aboard two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The expedition met with disaster as both ships became icebound and the crew of 129 men were lost. Mark’s team may even pass directly over the wreck of HMS Terror.]

I am quite sure they will be using clothing that will get wet very early in their “adventure” which will slow them down because they will be in a constant state of chill.

They are on the water and very close to it, and the water is very close to freezing. The air is logged with moisture as well.

They will have wet hands so holding their paddle will ultimately be come arduous. They have everything going against them. Because of the limited space in their kayak, they will do possibly the dumbest thing in the world and take down bags maybe made with water repellent down which they will discover in no time doesn’t work.

They could have come to me to get all things that are not affected by water, that would give them a better chance to make it, but even at that I am skeptical.

I would not be surprised if these guys had the same experience as those who preceded them.