Turtle meat – the ultimate survival diet?

Ship wrecked by orcas, really? Wiki doesn't mention any https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale#%22Killer%22_stereot... Couldn't find any other reports of this happening. Youtube has some videos of other whales but not orcas.

Low fat is a problem, because we need it or "rabbit starvation" - rabbit meat is only 8.3% fat https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning.

Nutritionalist picks one food, mushrooms... which have very low calories. Great for weight loss, not great for survival.

Potatoes are surprisingly good; high calories, they even have vitamin C. Easy to grow (not in a dingy of course). The favoured survival food of the stranded Martian.

I guess if I was stuck on a raft at sea and starving I would eat a sea turtle, but nearly all species of sea turtle are now endangered because of humans. https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/sea-turtle

Is it me or is there no left padding on this article and the page is entirely responsive when you expand... maybe a new BBC update that went wrong?

I watched Cannibal Holocaust not long ago. Actually a pretty good movie, not dumb. The very first 'found footage' movie apparently. Features anthropologists behaving badly and later being torn apart and eaten by the natives. The director was charged with the actors' murders, but it turned out they'd just signed a deal to disappear for a year after filming. Brilliant marketing I guess.

I mention that because it features an extremely graphic and lengthy sequence of a turtle being killed, shell removed, cut open etc. Very colourful insides, you can almost smell it. I felt sick from that point on.. [I watched the director's cut]

Turtle isn't that rare a thing to eat. They taste pretty good. You can even eat the shell if you boil it long enough.

As if survival weren't enough of a hurdle

You have to get by on the blood of a turtle