if we are lost at sea, ran out of water, why cant we drink the sea water instead?

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have you ever heard of the poem Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.

"Water, water everywhere yet not a drop to drink"

read it sometimes, it will answer your question

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It is nasty and the salt will make you hallucinate if you drink too much.

BEcause Salt water will dehydrate you AND YOULLD DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ITS ALIVE!!!

TFTP

too much salt will kill you as it is toxic.

Sea water has salt in it. Too much salt is not good for you.

if u do then u will dehydrate because theres too much salt in your system

No no no, by looking at you, I think you could do it. Hey, I think you could fly if you wanted to. You should go try it right now, off of a really tall building, or bridge.

The salt will dehydrate you. You'd be better off to drink you own urine. (Not a joke)

Put some sea salt in a glass of water and try drinking it, that should answer your question.

The salt in the salt water will dehydrate you and you would die of thirst sooner than if you had drunk nothing at all

Because the sea water contains too much salt which would cause you to dehydrate faster.
The saying "water water everywhere but not a drop to drink" comes to mind.

Salt.

Too much of it will send your organs into shock.
Make you sick to your stomach too.

Something I read a while ago was pertaining to your tear ducts in your eyes.
Seems they would get plugged up and tears could not wash out.

Salt water dehydrates you, salt only makes people more thirsty. Plus, in truth it would be better just to die from dehydration, because the salt screws with your mind.

Hopefully you are never lost at sea with no water, and if you are, hopefully you have a purifier that somehow takes salt out of water. They do make such things.

hate the taste of sea water

you can get sea scurvy and die, pirates used to force feed people salt water as a form of torture

SEA WATER HAS SALT WATER IN IT AND WILL MAKE YOU EVEN THIRSTIER (IT WOULD DRY YOUR MOUTH OUT)

The salt will dehydrate your body rather then help you. Too much sodium is also toxic to human beings, and will kill you.

you can but you would have to clean out the water first by eveporation. you have to take a big bowl of salt water then make a small plastic tent over it and put another big bowl on all edges of the tent ill send you a picture of what it would look like

Salt is a diuretic and will only make you thirstier if you drink it. "Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink." ~The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Because if you drink too much salt water your cells will dehydrate and your kidneys will become overworked and will shut down.

Because it is salt water and if you consume anything salty you will just get more and more thirsty. There are purifiers though.

IT IS SALTY! NOT GOOD 4 YOUR HEALTH. BUT GOOD FOR A DIPIN. IF YU R LOST IN THE SEA, JUS PRAY TO GOD. YOUR DESTINY IS IN HIS HAND

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