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Imagine traveling to the subarctic region of a foreign country to live off the land, alone, for 77 days. American Jordan Jonas, 36, did just that when he outlasted nine other contestants on the History Channel TV show Alone. "When it happened, I was completely surprised… My goal was to win it," said Jonas, of Lynchburg, Virginia. The sixth season of the reality TV series was filmed on Great Slave Lake's East Arm, near Lutselkʼe, N.W.T. It was the first time the show shot in the subarctic. Filming took place last fall, ending in November. Each contestant was dropped off at a different location with the few tools that they had brought with them. This wasn't Jonas's first time in the North. He spent a number of years living in Siberia with reindeer herders. "There's something rich about the North that you can't create anywhere else," said Jonas. He said it feels like "you can almost live a lifestyle [where] … you can still live the way we were designed to live." Jonas became the first contestant in the show's history to kill a big game animal when, 20 days into the adventure, he shot a nearly 408-kilogram moose with his bow and arrow. "That was one of the most intense days of my life," he said. "After that, I had the wolverines come in. I spent time in Siberia and never seen a wolverine in my time there, so I wasn't expecting it." Jonas said one wolverine in particular kept coming back and trying to see what it could scavenge. He eventually killed the animal with a bow and arrow and his hatchet. Jonas said fishing was a highlight. Catching an 11-kilogram pike gave him "a whole perspective shift," he said, and made him feel like he could last another month.

"I just had a blast catching trout in that lake," he said.

Jonas said he hopes to one day return to the Northwest Territories with his family. His only regret, he said, is that he "foolishly" left some mementos behind, like his fork and fishing net. But it's OK, he said, "because I got these moose antlers."

But things didn't go as planned at the Yellowknife airport.

"They wouldn't let them antlers on the plane and I didn't have time to go buy a hard case or anything so I just set the antlers out in front of the airport," said Jonas, laughing. "Otherwise I was gonna miss my flight." Jonas said if anyone found a set of antlers at the airport in November, to contact him.

"I'd be super pumped to pay a ransom and get them back."

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One of the instruments scientists can use to measure salinity is a CTD rosette, which measures the Conductivity (salinity), Temperature, and Depth of the water column. Seawater contains salt. When humans drink seawater, their cells are thus taking in water and salt. While humans can safely ingest small amounts of salt, the salt content in seawater is much higher than what can be processed by the human body. Additionally, when we consume salt as part of our daily diets, we also drink liquids, which help to dilute the salt and keep it at a healthy level. Living cells do depend on sodium chloride (salt) to maintain the body’s chemical balances and reactions; however, too much sodium can be deadly. Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.

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