Ricky Megee A man who survived 71 Days in Desert Australia NT 1st Tv Nadia khan show Part 1 — Transcript

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1. 0:01zani good morning Ricky how are you good
2. 0:03morning n how are you you are amazing I
3. 0:06must say thank you very much you
4. 0:08survived for 71 days in an environment
5. 0:10where I think people wouldn't even make
6. 0:12it for 4 days or five days no I was very
7. 0:15lucky I was very lucky okay so you are
8. 0:18Australian yes yes tell
9. 0:20me I'm sure it's it'll bring back a lot
10. 0:23of sad memories but still can you share
11. 0:25with us what exactly happened that date
12. 0:28was January 2006 2 years ago you were 35
13. 0:31then what were you doing in the outback
14. 0:33basically I was traveling from one side
15. 0:35of Australia to the other um to start a
16. 0:37new job and um I was traveling through
17. 0:41the center of Australia which is very
18. 0:42desolate and I stopped to help some
19. 0:45people who were pretending to be broken
20. 0:47down on the side of the road with their
21. 0:49vehicle and I helped one of them let
22. 0:51them in my vehicle and ended up getting
23. 0:54drugged and mugged and left for dead in
24. 0:56the middle of the desert oh my God can I
25. 0:58you lost your Consciousness and when you
26. 1:00woke up where were you and how were you
27. 1:03when I woke up um it was funny all I
28. 1:06could smell was the earth dirt and um
29. 1:09everything was black and um I remember I
30. 1:12was laying on my arm and um I felt
31. 1:15something heavy on my back and I I
32. 1:19pushed myself off the ground and I was
33. 1:21literally in a shallow hole laying in a
34. 1:24shallow hole with a piece of tar pooline
35. 1:26over me um which somebody had left me in
36. 1:29like a makeshift grave basically no
37. 1:31clothes no shoes they took my shoes my
38. 1:33socks I had a pair of shorts and a
39. 1:35t-shirt on and that was it so yeah I was
40. 1:39left there to die so so they they knew
41. 1:41you will be roast in the sun you'll get
42. 1:43how's the temperature like um the
43. 1:45temperature out then out there then was
44. 1:47around 38 to
45. 1:5042° um it was the end of the wet season
46. 1:53in Australia so there was still a little
47. 1:55bit of rain and a little bit of cloud
48. 1:57around um but it was starting to heat up
49. 1:59at that part of the
50. 2:00near that time of the and no shade no
51. 2:02shade very few trees what was the first
52. 2:04thought that came in your mind when you
53. 2:06saw I mean for somebody I mean it's we
54. 2:09hear and read about it all the time but
55. 2:10you were there it happened to you what
56. 2:12was what were the first thoughts you
57. 2:14know that came when I first woke up it
58. 2:16actually took me probably half an hour
59. 2:18or so to work out what had actually
60. 2:19happened um I sort of I stood up then I
61. 2:22fell back down again and I sat there
62. 2:25wondering what the hell happened where
63. 2:27was I and um and then it started to come
64. 2:29back to me I thought hang on a second I
65. 2:31was driving where's my car and I was
66. 2:33looking around I couldn't see my car and
67. 2:35then slowly over the next few hours it's
68. 2:38bits and pieces started to come back to
69. 2:39me as to what had happened and um then I
70. 2:42realized that um yeah I was in the
71. 2:44middle of the desert I didn't know where
72. 2:45I was I had no car I had no shoes and um
73. 2:49I sort of sat there for next day I was
74. 2:50wondering what I was going to do and um
75. 2:54I got up and there was a bit of a hill
76. 2:56off in the distance so I sort of walked
77. 2:58towards the hill first to climb on top
78. 2:59top of the hill to see if I could see
79. 3:01any roads or see if I could see my car
80. 3:03tell us a bit about this desert how big
81. 3:05is this how large is this and if you go
82. 3:06by foot um how many days can you cover
83. 3:09it okay if you had to go by foot it
84. 3:11would probably take you a week to walk
85. 3:12across it and you should have good
86. 3:13supply of water yes yes Food Water Shoes
87. 3:16by it takes one
88. 3:23day oh my God so but you managed to
89. 3:26cover half of the distance in well I
90. 3:28ended up walking approximately 90 km now
91. 3:32when I say walking I actually found a
92. 3:34seasonal Creek um a seasonal River at
93. 3:36that point in time and I actually
94. 3:37floated Downstream for about half a day
95. 3:40maybe about 6 or 8 hours all up so I
96. 3:43walked about 84 km and I floated through
97. 3:46on in a river for about 6 km and um I
98. 3:50managed to find a road which um I walked
99. 3:53on down a road and came to a cattle
100. 3:56station in the middle of the Northern
101. 3:57Territory um which this cattle station
102. 4:00was 22,000 km Square so that sort of
103. 4:02gives you an IDE idea of the size of one
104. 4:05of the properties out there oh my God
105. 4:07yeah and no person nobody there nobody
106. 4:10nobody nobody goes
107. 4:12there a dune drive or something like
108. 4:14that not this not this time of the this
109. 4:16particular time of the year um a lot of
110. 4:18the roads are wet and washed out so even
111. 4:20the the station hands and the station
112. 4:23people don't venture out much during the
113. 4:25wet season because you just get bogged
114. 4:26in your car so they sort of they wait
115. 4:29till
116. 4:33okay then you started walking you know
117. 4:35first day you you had Hope Oh I can make
118. 4:37it I I can do it the first few days the
119. 4:40first few days every day that I woke up
120. 4:42um I thought today was the day that I
121. 4:44would find something find a house find a
122. 4:46road or a car or today the day that
123. 4:48somebody will be driving down the road
124. 4:50and they will find me um for the first
125. 4:52couple of weeks I never thought that I
126. 4:54was going to be out there for any length
127. 4:55of time I actually thought every day
128. 4:57that I woke up today was the day I was
129. 4:58going to be found
130. 5:00the biggest problem is if you stuck in a
131. 5:02situation like this the food and water
132. 5:04obviously water kills you first lack of
133. 5:06water and then the
134. 5:07food how did you survive okay when was
135. 5:10the first time you got hungry really
136. 5:11hungry the really hungry was probably
137. 5:13about 6 7 days into it and and water
138. 5:17water okay I didn't have any water for
139. 5:19the first two days so I actually had to
140. 5:20drink my own urine which oh my
141. 5:24God for the first two days you were your
142. 5:26own urine very unpleasant if you have to
143. 5:29do it I suggest you let it cool down
144. 5:31first it's not very it doesn't taste
145. 5:34very nice um but then on the on the
146. 5:36afternoon of the second day I actually
147. 5:38saw some rain clouds off in the distance
148. 5:41and I headed towards those round claves
149. 5:43round claves I missed the rain but um it
150. 5:46left a few pockets of water in amongst
151. 5:48the rocks and so I actually got had a
152. 5:50little bit of a little bit of a drink
153. 5:52through um through the rocks and stuff
154. 5:54like that where the water had pulled um
155. 5:56and then on the third day um I saw rain
156. 5:59clouds off in the distance again and I
157. 6:01followed those rainclouds and that's
158. 6:02when I found the seasonal River so in
159. 6:05the wet season the desert literally
160. 6:07forms the river like it does in here in
161. 6:09the UAE most of the time the Wes are dry
162. 6:12so the fourth day you found some water
163. 6:13yes the fourth day I found a lot of
164. 6:15water and um I ended up camping near
165. 6:18near a big water hole for 4 days um and
166. 6:21just through that period I actually
167. 6:24study this is the water hole this is
168. 6:25where you found the water this is
169. 6:26actually the last Dam the last water
170. 6:28hole that I found which I camped on for
171. 6:30approximately 7 weeks and the water is
172. 6:32not fit for drinking right it didn't
173. 6:33look as bad as that when I first came
174. 6:36across it but um because it was the wet
175. 6:38season all the dams and water holes had
176. 6:41just filled up with clean water so I was
177. 6:43very very lucky luy good timing yes yeah
178. 6:46yeah okay and then the sixth day y you
179. 6:49had not eaten for six
180. 6:54days sixth day when you got really
181. 6:56hungry and you had to walk and find the
182. 6:59RO
183. 7:00what did you eat um I basically camped
184. 7:02under a tree I found a shaded tree and I
185. 7:05was very tired I'd actually passed out
186. 7:07once from dehydration and and lack of
187. 7:10food lack of lack of energy on that day
188. 7:13and I found a tree and I was laying
189. 7:14under a tree and um thinking about what
190. 7:18I was going to eat and a little lizard
191. 7:20about this long came running past me and
192. 7:23without even thinking I just went bang
193. 7:25and hit him on the head and um I picked
194. 7:28him up and and like he he was dead so I
195. 7:31put him on a stick and I sat him out in
196. 7:33the sun and I let him dry out for about
197. 7:362 hours and then I peeled as much skin
198. 7:38as I could off him and um that was the
199. 7:41first thing I ate sick yeah and then um
200. 7:45after that I started to eat a few
201. 7:47different types of vegetation in the
202. 7:48area I started to try different types of
203. 7:51plants and things like that if it tasted
204. 7:53okay I ate it if it didn't I just spat
205. 7:55it out and that was basically how all my
206. 7:59food s started so I know over the next
207. 8:02few days after that I started trying
208. 8:04different insects it's insects be
209. 8:07grasshoppers
210. 8:09caterpillars um stick insects I tried
211. 8:12one cockroach which I don't recommend to
212. 8:15anybody I put it in my mouth and it came
213. 8:17out quicker than it went in it was
214. 8:19disgusting disgusting cockroach has no
215. 8:21meat no no no nothing it's just a you
216. 8:23never know maybe I maybe it does taste
217. 8:26good so you had to try it's not if it's
218. 8:29not being served in China then it mean
219. 8:31it's not edible then otherwise it would
220. 8:33have been in China yes true true
221. 8:37[Music]
222. 8:57so she's just concerned you know how how
223. 8:59one can survive without water and then
224. 9:02you know you you it's it's so dangerous
225. 9:05you want you had to walk and find your
226. 9:06way out but you can't move far from the
227. 9:09water no exactly right and that was the
228. 9:11problem you can't walk you can't go that
229. 9:12was a lot of the problem I faced um
230. 9:15every time I found water um the first
231. 9:18thing that crossed my mind is if I leave
232. 9:20where where's where will be my next
233. 9:23drink so to speak where will I find
234. 9:24water next and nothing to carry some
235. 9:26water with you no so it was a gamble
236. 9:28every time I left one place with that
237. 9:30had water to try and walk to find my way
238. 9:32out I was taking a risk that I might not
239. 9:34find water again so yeah okay what about
240. 9:37this first um camping the first uh humpy
241. 9:41that you made for yourself shelter this
242. 9:44first shelter the first shelter um was I
243. 9:47found like the very first one that I
244. 9:50made or the first one the first very
245. 9:52first shelter that I made um