Les stroud where is he now

In a search and rescue every single millisecond is critical and nobody knows that better perhaps than Survivorman Les Stroud. His friend, filmmaker and conservationist Robert Stewart, has been missing in the waters off the southern tip of Florida since Tuesday evening but Stroud says he has reason to hope Stewart can be rescued.

Search continues for Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart, missing after Florida dive. Your mind is battling facts. And you're trying to process it all, and make sense of those two worlds. Stroud, who's an expert diver himself, says the odds of Stewart's survival, if he was swept away by a strong breeze or current, are good as long as his life jacket is inflated. Will he be hypothermic? But will he expire because of those reasons? Highly unlikely," Stroud said. Stroud was supposed to be in Florida diving with Stewart, who was filming Sharkwater: Extinction , a follow-up documentary to Sharkwater — his hugely popular film, which put the spotlight on global shark hunting and its impact on the marine ecosystem.

In filming Survivorman , which saw Stroud surviving alone in locales as varied as the deep forests of his native Ontario to the Australian Outback to the jungles of Papua New Guinea to frigid Scandinavian mountains, Stroud taught his audience a range of survival techniques including fire-making , shelter-building, foraging, and water collection and purification. In essence, he inspired a generation of men to get outside of their comfort zones, both figuratively and literally.

The show ran for multiple seasons and saw myriad spin-offs and specials, propelling the now year-old outdoorsman into a globally recognized figure. In the process, he pioneered an entirely new genre: survival TV. Wild , and Dual Survival. We sat down with Stroud to talk about his new book, and how to stay alive in the wild. Les Stroud: Absolutely informing and educating.

LS: Totally option B there. It was what I loved to do, sure, but did I see it going like this at all? To helping create an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars and my own career? I just wanted to get out of poverty. TM: What are some of the mistakes the amateur outdoorsman should watch out for?

And mistakes even experienced outdoorsmen should avoid? You do research. Then research more. And by kit I mean clothing, too.