Into.the.Jungle.2024.S01E02
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00:00Okay, tell me about your dad. I would describe my dad as really annoying. Very lazy. Really old-fashioned.
00:07Knew it all.
00:09Wow. Some things got changed because I'm hoping to get a better relationship with my dad.
00:19Oh my God. That's sick.
00:22It's not Manchester, I can tell you that.
00:24International explorer Ed Stafford
00:26Okay, let's go.
00:27is taking six ordinary dads
00:29Come on, son!
00:30and their kids
00:31to the jungles of Central America.
00:33Modern life is rubbish.
00:35It's getting in the way of us being good dads.
00:38I don't spend time with my dad.
00:40We haven't done anything together.
00:42You're very annoying, that guy!
00:45Ed's leading them on an extreme adventure.
00:47I think Ed's trying to kill me.
00:49Absolutely.
00:50Dead.
00:51Come on, Grandpa!
00:54Designed to bring them closer.
00:56There's jaguars, there's venomous snakes.
00:58It's hot, humid. You're drenched in sweat the whole time.
01:02Your back has been bitten to shreds.
01:04But that's good.
01:05Because testing yourself in an extreme environment is an amazing way of building relationships.
01:12Oh my God.
01:13How do you prefer it? Medium rare?
01:15Can doing something together you never thought possible
01:19Absolutely!
01:20I've got you.
01:21make you a better dad.
01:23That is stunning.
01:24I think this trip is changing both of us.
01:26This is beautiful.
01:27Oh my God.
01:28The jungle is a place where magic can happen.
01:30It changed my life.
01:32It will change theirs too.
01:35Ed!
01:36You've been out trying to catch a fish.
01:40This is what we've managed to call all four of us.
01:44Ed!
01:52Ed!
02:06I mean, you've got iguanas.
02:07I'm not eating an iguana.
02:08You've got tortoises.
02:09I'm not eating a tortoise.
02:10You've got snakes.
02:11I'm not eating a snake.
02:14It's day three of Ed Stafford's expedition.
02:17Taking six dads and their kids deep into the jungles of Belize.
02:22Iguanas.
02:23I can't eat them because we have them at home.
02:25You won't be able to look them in the eye again now.
02:27No.
02:28You don't even like the iguana?
02:32I firmly believe that people learn the most in life when they can embrace different ways of living.
02:38My wife came into the kitchen about five months ago and said,
02:41am I really cleaning this effing kitchen for the next 40 years of my life?
02:47We suddenly recognized that we'd fallen into this humdrum.
02:50We'd fallen into this domestic grind, I guess.
02:55And so I decided to move the whole family to the jungle in Costa Rica.
03:01And for me that's exciting because I want them to live outside.
03:04I want them to take more risks and I want them to benefit from nature.
03:09Howler monkeys and capuchins come to the house all the time and throw stuff at us.
03:14My little boys swing on vines.
03:17Is it supper time?
03:18Yeah.
03:19We're throwing ourselves into this adventure together and it's brought us closer.
03:24And I'm hoping this expedition does the same for the dads and their kids.
03:32Okay, if you look out into the jungle in front of you there, what do you see?
03:39Trees.
03:40Trees, leaves.
03:41It might just look like a big wall of green leaves, but actually the jungle is your supermarket.
03:48So today you've got to try and find your supper from the jungle.
03:54It's important you bring a big amount of food back because there's 13 of us that need to get fed.
03:59Okay.
04:00So we're going to get our dinner now.
04:02Is your dad a good cook?
04:04He's not too bad, he's not too good.
04:06Oh, come on. Okay, stop. You can't say that.
04:08You know I'm the best cook. I taught your mum to cook, I taught you to cook. Please don't say that.
04:13I think dad could learn how to cook because when mum's at work, we just have beans on toast.
04:21Are you fussy eaters?
04:23Yes.
04:24No.
04:25He is.
04:27I am very open to food, depending what it is.
04:31Do you do much cooking at home?
04:33Well, I'll go and Google and then I'll find a restaurant. I'm good at putting orders in on the phone.
04:40Split into groups.
04:42It's a little bitter.
04:43The dads and kids must forage enough food to make a meal, using only what they can find in the jungle.
04:49I just can't.
04:54Jose, can you find me like a steak? I'm starving.
04:58When you go on an expedition, it's all about taking all the comforts of everyday life away
05:02and therefore one of the things that people start obsessing about very quickly is food.
05:07From walking the Amazon, I remember lying in my hammock, being obsessed by Mr Kipling's French Fancies,
05:12just the pink ones for some reason.
05:14They would literally spin around my head.
05:16But obviously you have to be adaptable in terms of what foods you eat in the jungle.
05:20I mean, I do see the odd plant that I recognise.
05:25Hey, look at this.
05:28Working with a local expert.
05:30Termite.
05:34The first group are looking for edible insects.
05:37They eat a lot of wood and they build their home out of, guess what?
05:42Vomit?
05:43Poo.
05:44Yep.
05:45So that is literally probably cardboard, what they've made.
05:47Cardboard's made out of poo?
05:5111-year-old Ezra and sister Ellis live with their Turkish Cypriot parents.
05:56Business owners Eftel and Soraya.
05:59My dad likes to joke a lot but he always thinks it's very funny.
06:03Those are called dad jokes, they're classics.
06:05They're not.
06:07Me and Eftel met through family and didn't think any more of it.
06:11And then a few weeks later he was like, what do you think?
06:14Me and you, and I was like, there's nothing else going on this Christmas.
06:18We might as well.
06:20And here we are, 15, 16 years later.
06:23OK, you guys want to try one?
06:24Yes.
06:25Go for it.
06:26He's a fun dad, for sure.
06:28Go on then, little chicken nuggets.
06:30But obviously he's good cop, mum's always bad cop.
06:34Ez?
06:35No, I'm good.
06:36It's totally up to you, baby.
06:38I do feel like he's blissfully unaware,
06:40because that's what the men in our culture are generally like, you know?
06:45Dads that went out to work and mums deal with everything to do with home and kids.
06:49So I'm excited to see if this experience maybe switches a few things around.
06:54Because I'm fed up, I'm tired.
06:56I think he needs to just take the next sort of 15 years responsibility for the kids.
07:01Don't touch me.
07:02I've eaten them, it's fine.
07:03I don't care.
07:05That's right, you're not going to eat it?
07:06No.
07:10Protein.
07:12In search of a Belizean delicacy, Ed takes Dad Christian on a hunting mission.
07:18There's an area up here which is like this haven of tarantulas.
07:22Oh, fuck.
07:26I'm not that adventurous with food, am I?
07:28Meat and potato, that's pretty much it.
07:32Tarantulas will move fast, right?
07:34They have got venom, so if you do get bitten, it goes quite black and horrible.
07:39Yeah, I think there's one here.
07:42You can fuck right off.
07:44I think if you're hungry enough, you're going to eat anything, aren't you?
07:47Shit, the best.
07:48As soon as you're in that situation with that level of hunger,
07:51you start seeing things very differently.
07:54Tortoises, hedgehogs, all sorts of things become food.
07:58Index finger between the two front and two back sets of legs.
08:02I mean, I've been in a situation where I've been super hungry in the jungle
08:05and I've come across a tarantula and it's a bit squeamish when you bite into the abdomen,
08:09but I mean, it's just this pop of almost custard-like goo that comes out of the abdomen.
08:16I'm not really sure whether you're meant to eat the abdomen, actually, but I did.
08:20It is highly likely to move fast.
08:28Yeah, you fucker.
08:31The thing that the dads and their kids will end up appreciating
08:34is the difficulty in finding food,
08:36and therefore they hopefully will value the food that they eat all the more.
08:40Do you want me to do it?
08:41No, no, I'll baseball cap him.
08:42OK.
08:43Pin it, pin it, pin it.
08:48Yeah, you got him, you got him.
08:53That's number one.
08:56That was easier than I thought it was going to be.
08:59OK, that's three.
09:02It's like something like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, isn't it?
09:07The families return to camp with their jungle haul.
09:10With plenty of carbohydrates, all it's missing is the centrepiece of the meal.
09:15Hello.
09:16What have we got here?
09:18Is it a fish?
09:19Oh, that's spiders.
09:20I've eaten that.
09:21You're kidding.
09:22They're sick.
09:23They're spiders.
09:25You know what? I don't really need to eat.
09:27You're kidding.
09:28I've eaten that.
09:29You're kidding.
09:30They're sick.
09:31They're spiders.
09:33You know what? I don't really need to eat.
09:35Yeah, just go eat a tarantula.
09:37No.
09:39Straight up, no.
09:41I've been around loads of zoos with my family and I'm just going,
09:45yeah, I've eaten that, I've eaten that, I've eaten that.
09:48And all the kids are going, Dad, you can't eat those.
09:51You can.
09:52What am I supposed to do, just snap a leg off and chew it?
09:55I've been to Nando's. Don't you do that for chickens?
09:58The chickens are kind of born to be eaten.
10:00Tarantulas aren't made to die, they're made to be in the jungle
10:03to scare and bite people.
10:05Everything is made to die.
10:07Chicken's made to die.
10:11You're a good chef, Geoff.
10:12Oh, mate.
10:13I ain't going to lie, I'm an expert in the kitchen.
10:16Using their foraged ingredients, the dads must prepare the evening meal.
10:20Let's throw these ones in.
10:23They must encourage their kids to eat dinner or see them go hungry.
10:28So you basically put it on a stick and then you pass it through
10:31a naked flame and it burns all the hairs off the outside
10:34and then you roast it.
10:38It's because I've seen them alive before they were cooked.
10:41It just freaks me out a bit.
10:43See how you feel when they're cooked, you might change your mind.
10:45Yeah.
10:53I'm going to kill it as humanely as possible, right?
10:55This is a demonstration.
10:57Watch carefully, because if you want to do this...
11:02..you've got to do this.
11:11Anyone salivating?
11:13That's good to eat. It's a body with some legs on it.
11:17Does anyone want to have a go?
11:20Isra?
11:22I am a bit of a fussy eater.
11:25It's either the texture that I don't like or the smell that I don't like.
11:31I don't like it.
11:33All of his friends are watching his mates get cooked.
11:42Kids, do you want to do this?
11:45How do you prefer it, medium rare?
11:47Disgusting.
11:48Burned to a crisp.
11:52Sometimes my dad would just be, like, joking
11:55instead of, like, actually trying to help me.
11:58Authentic southern fried tarantula.
12:01I'm definitely not eating a spider.
12:03That's too much.
12:07Going on expeditions, I've watched people change
12:10from being nervous and lacking confidence
12:12to just coming out of their shell
12:14and flourishing and becoming the best versions of themselves.
12:17If no-one else wants some, just eat it, man.
12:20Can I eat the whole thing?
12:21Yeah. Oh, yeah, eat it, eat it, eat it, yeah.
12:23Cool.
12:25Yes.
12:26Well done.
12:27Oh, my God.
12:28I don't want to be selfish.
12:30What does it taste like?
12:33Chicken.
12:36Geoff, are you going for the whole one now?
12:38No, I'm not that brave.
12:40The kids have turned feral in two days.
12:44When they get back home, the neighbour's cat's going to go missing.
12:53Be gentle with it.
12:54Dad.
12:55Yeah?
12:58Frog.
12:59Rocker.
13:00Rocks.
13:01Wash your hands.
13:03No, Dad, it's fine.
13:06OK.
13:08Everything I say is like, no.
13:10It made it all the same.
13:12It's an awkward age, as well.
13:13It is.
13:14Particularly Rocker's age.
13:1814-year-old Rocker and dad, Ben,
13:20live with 18-year-old brother, Noah, and mum, Candy.
13:24Unfortunately, I don't spend as much time as I would like to with Rocker.
13:28He goes to boarding school.
13:31The last two years, we haven't done anything together,
13:35just him and I.
13:37I love boarding school.
13:38It makes me feel, like, very independent.
13:40It makes me feel like I'm in uni.
13:42But I barely go home.
13:44I just want to rekindle the bond we used to have.
13:49Having this opportunity to go to the jungle is like a reset,
13:53which no-one gets in their life.
13:58I'm finding it difficult to find out what's really going on in his mind.
14:05And Rocker, with the age he's at now, you know, 14,
14:09he does tend to always think he's right.
14:14You know, I'll be arguing my point.
14:16Yeah.
14:17And he'll be so passionate about how he is right.
14:21He's becoming a man.
14:22I feel like he needs to play that man role now.
14:24Yeah.
14:25It's not too old anymore.
14:26No.
14:28I feel like Rocker does have this sort of tough shell.
14:32I should try and find ways to sort of slowly crack it
14:36so I can find out what really makes him tick.
14:52How you doing, Ben?
14:54Good, yeah.
14:55Right, we've got to make porridge.
14:57Everything's got that very slight moist touch to it, hasn't it?
15:00Yeah, of course it has. It's the jungle, mate.
15:02Last night, Dad Ben revealed his struggles with son Rocker.
15:06Now Ed wants to learn more.
15:09What made you come on the expedition?
15:11Yeah, so I've got an older son, Noah, who's now 18.
15:15He was training to be a freestyle motocross rider,
15:20where people do massive jumps, backflips and tricks in the air.
15:24He had a real passion for it, and he was really, really good,
15:27although it's super high risk and very dangerous.
15:30And two years ago, he jumped an enormous 75-foot jump,
15:39and then instead of the bike landing and it rolling away,
15:43from 35 foot up in the air, it just basically went like this.
15:47And all the force went through the bike, up his spine,
15:51and just snapped him like a twig.
15:53So he's alive, sustained a spinal cord injury,
15:56became paralysed from about here down, in the blink of an eye.
16:01Crikey, Ben, that's horrific.
16:05Your whole life has been tilted upside down.
16:08I've become his full-time carer 24 hours a day.
16:11There's a chance he'll get better.
16:13Like, we live in, we just live in hope.
16:15The reason for coming out here is,
16:17Rocker has taken this enormous back seat,
16:20and I've missed a massive part of his growing up.
16:24All the time, Rocker was just being passed from pillar to post
16:28with friends who were so great.
16:32You know, they looked after him, they took him in.
16:35Rocker did a lot of growing up,
16:37more growing up than any 12-year-old should do.
16:43I missed that time.
16:45How important is this expedition for you and him?
16:48Massively.
16:49It's something that we'll share forever, it's just him and I.
16:52I think he has created this sort of coping mechanism
16:55of sort of keeping everything inside a bit.
16:58I've come here to be with Rocker,
17:00so I'm hoping over the next two weeks
17:03that, you know, he'll open up a bit more.
17:13Following yesterday's unpopular foraged meal,
17:16Ed is taking the group out of the jungle
17:19in search of a better bounty.
17:22Heading to South Cocoa Plum Cay,
17:25a remote island nine miles off the coast of Belize.
17:29Everyone thinks of Belize as being this jungle environment,
17:32but it's also got these incredible islands,
17:34or cays, as they call them.
17:36There's the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef that comes down,
17:39so it's got this incredible maritime environment as well.
17:42The reef has over 450 species of marine life,
17:46including sharks, stingrays and crocodiles.
17:52The main reason for taking the dads and the kids out of the jungle
17:56is to challenge them in a different way.
17:58For me, having walked the length of the Amazon,
18:01that was not as difficult or as intense
18:03as spending 60 days on a desert island.
18:07I had no food, nothing to help me survive,
18:10just, you know, my bare hands and half a brain.
18:12I was expecting to be, you know, sipping coconut water
18:15and eating copious amounts of fish,
18:17and it just isn't like that.
18:19In 60 days, I caught one fish.
18:22Which was a really nice fish.
18:27Everyone, this is as far as the boat is going.
18:30We are going ashore. There are stingray.
18:32If you're stepping on a stingray, that's the danger.
18:35You've got to shuffle your feet in.
18:37There are American crocodiles in this area,
18:39and they feed along the shore.
18:41Throw your bag out a little bit.
18:43Do it, Dad.
18:46Well done, well done, well done.
18:49Only 300 metres long and 60 metres wide,
18:52South Cocoa Plum Cay is exposed to 35 degree heat
18:56with little natural shade, high winds and strong sea currents.
19:01Out of the water. I've done it.
19:03We're not on holiday. It's not Butlins.
19:07OK, guys, well done for getting ashore.
19:10There is enough on this island for by the end of the day,
19:14we should have a shelter built, a fire going,
19:17and we should be cooking a slap-up meal,
19:20much better than the meal we had last night, OK?
19:23I'm going to split you into groups.
19:25You four are going to build a shelter.
19:27It's super important.
19:28Around here, there's a fierce wind that picks up as the day goes on.
19:32You four, there is enough fire-lighting materials on the island
19:35and there is plentiful things that you can forage.
19:38What does fire-lighting mean?
19:40Fire-lighting means lighting a fire.
19:42Oh.
19:43If you look behind you, I have set two traps,
19:47sunken below the orange buoys.
19:50In order to get out there, you four are going to build a raft.
19:54Right, away you go. Go. Go.
19:58I was one man, but it took me 13 days to get a fire going,
20:01and every single night I was shivering, cold, in the dark.
20:04These guys are 12, so in theory they should be 12 times faster than me,
20:08so I'm hoping that what I've set them is achievable.
20:12Right, so we've got to go build a fire then, mate.
20:15Mate.
20:16Mate.
20:17Have you ever made a fire before?
20:19No.
20:20Except for, like...
20:22..a fire in our back garden.
20:24So how did you know how to make a fire?
20:26Lighter.
20:27Fire.
20:28Magic.
20:30I like it. I like it as I am.
20:32I have loads and loads and loads of outdoor skills.
20:35I'm literally an outdoor person.
20:37I've never seen it, but...
20:39Anyone in the family need outdoor stuff done, they all call me,
20:42so please give me that at least.
20:45If we do something, come with bloody, like, planned out,
20:48he'll watch documentaries about it
20:50and then he'll become a professional about it all.
20:55Have I done anything to prepare?
20:58Done nothing.
20:59Yeah.
21:00I had a haircut.
21:04I reckon we basically run around, scavenge poles, palm leaves,
21:08string, rope.
21:10Dads Geoff and Ben, with sons Akai and Rocker,
21:13must build a shelter to protect the group from the elements.
21:18Hang on, Ezra's nicking the bits that I've already spotted
21:21for our shelter.
21:22Nice.
21:24At home, start building some flat-packed furniture with your wife
21:28and you start getting frustrated with each other
21:30and if you don't communicate well,
21:32you'll start having a go at each other
21:34and that's what today's all about.
21:35We want that stuff to bubble up to the surface.
21:37We want those issues to arise
21:39because that's the stuff we need to confront, deal with,
21:42so that we can get rid of it.
21:46Dad, look, this will...
21:47I don't think we're going to build a shape like that.
21:50Because the wind is coming from that direction.
21:53If you put that here...
21:54Yeah, but the wind always changes.
21:56Ed told me that the wind is going to stay at this direction today.
21:59Forever.
22:01God.
22:04I haven't really had that many opportunities back at base
22:07to actually be with him, to talk to him,
22:10sort of privately about how he's handling
22:13what's happened to us as a family.
22:15Every time I've said to him, you're all right,
22:17he's like, yes, I'm fine.
22:19Grab!
22:25On the day of Noah's accident,
22:28my phone rang and it was his best friend's number on my phone
22:32and all I could hear was, crash, Noah, an ambulance.
22:37We just ran to the farm where he had his ramps
22:42and he was lying on his back.
22:46When something like this happens to one of your children,
22:48it's beyond devastating.
22:50Your perfect child
22:54has been seemingly irreversibly damaged.
22:59Our hearts were broken and they're still broken.
23:05It's awful.
23:12I was 12 years old, so it was kind of a shock to me.
23:16I didn't really know what to think of it at first.
23:19People would ask me how my brother is and, I mean, it's nice,
23:23but it just, like, reminds me what situation my brother's in.
23:28Now all my time is taken up looking after Noah, caring for him.
23:33I would like to get back that one-on-one closeness
23:37that's been lost with Rocca.
23:41I don't know where those kids are.
23:44What are you doing, Roccs?
23:46Making a basketball net.
23:48Not really a priority, though. What do you reckon?
23:51No, I think it is.
23:53Rocca, catch!
23:59Hope spends some good quality time,
24:01but getting them to do anything actually helpful is proving difficult.
24:06Boys, let me see who can get the most holes in, like, five minutes.
24:11Honestly, I'll set a timer.
24:13I know what trap that is, Dad.
24:15It's not a trap, it's a game.
24:17Five minutes, and the winner,
24:19I'll give you something when we get back to camp.
24:22What's the prize? Ten quid.
24:24Not ten quid, it's sweets.
24:27All right.
24:28No?
24:30I'm not a 12-year-old.
24:33Jesus Christ.
24:35With what happened with Noah,
24:37Daddy's focus wasn't so much on his little boy
24:40suddenly turning into a teenager.
24:43He used to take me to school every morning and wake me up,
24:47and then for a whole 22 weeks, he didn't do that once.
24:51That's partially why I am like I am now.
24:55We'll never be able to rewind time.
24:58I mean, he literally physically shot up six inches
25:02in the time that we're in hospital.
25:05It was such a pivotal time, and we really weren't there.
25:09We actually need two more.
25:12Two more of the soaping poles.
25:14OK? Agree? Yeah, I agree, yeah.
25:16OK, cool.
25:18Fucking hell!
25:20I can't say anything to Brock without him going,
25:23Dad, Dad, no!
25:24And then it's like, I don't want to push it.
25:27Trying to speak to a 14-year-old is tricky.
25:30So I just back off.
25:33I do want to remind him that I'm his dad as well,
25:36you know, before it's too late.
25:38I want him to know that I am there for him at the drop of a hat.
25:50Bubba, there's root!
25:52That will be very good, Ezzie.
25:55Dads Eftel and Chris, with their kids Chris Jr and Ezra,
25:59must work together to build a raft,
26:01strong enough to reach traps placed 200 metres out to sea.
26:05Shall we come and take you together? Yeah.
26:08If successful, they could provide a haul of lobsters
26:11big enough to feed the whole group.
26:13It's probably harder to get food on an island
26:16than it is in the jungle,
26:18but it's a lot of fun.
26:20It's probably harder to get food on an island than it is in the jungle,
26:24but if they do well, they could have a bountiful feast.
26:28The sort of design we were thinking
26:30was like a catamaran sort of type thing.
26:32My fear, right, is that you've not got enough rope to do this design.
26:36And in my experience,
26:38the strongest and most simple shape is a triangle.
26:42It's been a while since I was in Cubs.
26:44If I'm being honest, it's all gone.
26:46Bubba? Yeah? What can I do?
26:48I don't know, baby. There's not much you can do at the moment.
26:52Who's the one who's making the decisions at the moment?
26:55Dads, mainly. Yeah.
26:57In all honesty, I think they need to utilise their children
27:00a little bit more.
27:02I think maybe add a bit of motivation.
27:04There's 12 people on this island
27:06and six of them are doing the majority of the work at the moment,
27:09and that's for dads.
27:10We've got to find a way to get it floating,
27:12to give us an aid to get us out to what we've got to get out of.
27:16Or laying down or something like that.
27:19Cleaning company owner Chris Senior and his son, Chris Junior,
27:23moved from Mallorca four years ago with their family to live in Dorset.
27:28I'm from northern England, from a little town just outside Leeds.
27:32My wife's from Ecuador, and it can be a bit fiery.
27:37Eli, or cierra la puerta, o no hay ruido.
27:41Vale. Porfa. Gracias.
27:43There you go.
27:45I met my wife in Menorca about 17 years ago,
27:49and we had my son, 15 years old, Chris Junior.
27:52We went through various names, and in the end, we both settled on Chris.
27:56I think because it was easy.
27:58So Chris Senior, Chris Junior. I don't like the Senior bit, but there we go.
28:02Moving to the UK was difficult
28:05because it separated me from all of my friends,
28:08and I kind of wanted to go back to Spain,
28:11mainly because I didn't have that much confidence.
28:14You're going to need a cross-section of some kind to sit on,
28:17so there's plenty you can be doing if you want.
28:23My upbringing was very much making dens
28:25and always making things in the garden, things like that.
28:28If you want me to be brutally honest,
28:30I think they are probably a little bit of a softer generation
28:33because everything is easier.
28:35I think I've got some skills that he doesn't have,
28:38and I think he'll be impressed with me.
28:41Do you know how to wire a plug?
28:43No, but I do know how a plug works, that is for sure.
28:46Right, Chris, plug it in.
28:49Let's do it together.
28:51I can't really do it together because I'm not sure we'd have the time.
28:55The worst thing that Chris can have is that sometimes he doesn't have a lot of patience.
29:03He wants things done quickly.
29:25Obviously you want to get him involved, but at the same time you've got to get moving.
29:28I'm sure he can do it, but it's one of those difficulties I have.
29:31You know, he's letting go and trusting to do it properly.
29:34What did you do then?
29:36You tell me. I was going to do that, but you're not letting me.
29:39You told me I was going to do it.
29:44Around here the wind picks up as the day goes on,
29:47and the wind is heading due east.
29:49The buoys that I've set the traps on are due east from here,
29:52and unless the guys get a wriggle on, they're going to find themselves in quite fierce wind
29:57being dragged away from the island at the end of the day.
30:00So that is going to be a big challenge.
30:02That'll be all right. As long as we can get on it, you know what I mean?
30:05I reckon that's it.
30:08With the raft finished, the team must decide who will attempt the trip out to sea.
30:13I think just two go out.
30:15They can get us there quicker and get us back quicker.
30:18So, do you fancy it?
30:21Are we allowed to go get them?
30:23You'd fancy it? Father-son retrieval programme?
30:26If you want, don't mind. OK.
30:29Yeah, cool.
30:31Eftal has made the decision that Chris Sr and Chris Jr will go out to sea,
30:36while Ezra stays on shore.
30:38I ain't going to try and force her to do anything.
30:41I'm quite an easy-going dad.
30:43I don't tell them to swerve challenges,
30:45but I don't also want them to go against their nature.
30:48She's Daddy's little girl.
30:52I think my dad underestimates me a lot,
30:55cos he treats me like I'm very, like, fragile and young,
30:59but I like to push myself.
31:02With Ezra sidelined, the rest of her team prepare for the voyage.
31:08I came into the jungle ready to do everything that I could.
31:11Is there a bit of you that would like to be pushed a little bit more?
31:14Definitely.
31:15In a previous challenge...
31:17I wanted to do it, but it was really high.
31:19If you want to go back up, I'm just equally as happy.
31:23Ezra chose not to attempt the abseil down a 160-foot cliff face.
31:29I really wanted to do the abseil.
31:31There's a hint of regret in your voice, then,
31:33that you didn't end up doing that?
31:35Yeah, I really regret backing out.
31:37Sometimes we learn the most when we fail.
31:39Do you think you learned something from not being able to do it?
31:43I want to go for it
31:44and not back down on any of the other challenges.
31:47As a dad, I believe it's our job
31:49to take our kids outside of their comfort zone
31:51and teach them to take risks.
31:54Adventure is something that helps you grow,
31:56and if you didn't have the risk,
31:58then I think it wouldn't have the same degree of positive change.
32:02F, can I grab you a sec? Yeah.
32:04Mate, cos obviously Ezra didn't do the abseil... Yeah.
32:08..and didn't want to really be involved with the challenges last night.
32:11It'd be a really good win for her if she was out on the raft.
32:14Yeah. Have a chat with Chris and Chris
32:16and just, I think all four of you should get out, you know?
32:20I just didn't think that was going to carry the four of us,
32:22that's why I said it.
32:23It only really needs to carry Ezra, doesn't it?
32:25Yeah, good idea. Push it and push it.
32:27Yeah, true. You put that to the group, yeah.
32:31Guys? Yes?
32:33What would be good, as a team, we've all built this,
32:36if all four of us actually go out...
32:38You can go in one corner, you can go in one corner. Yeah.
32:41Ez can sit in the middle, push as well.
32:43And you can help us get to the boys. Yeah.
32:46That sounds like a cracking idea to me.
32:48She needs to win, she needs to get out on there,
32:50she needs to feel like she's not just tied a few knots
32:53and watched the boys do it,
32:55she needs to feel an integral part of this team.
32:57One, two, three, go.
33:01I'm feeling quite scared to see if the rafters stay afloat.
33:06Because the wind keeps getting really bad
33:09and the waves are starting to come in.
33:11So, a very hard mission for us.
33:17After a long day foraging and building,
33:20hopes of a lobster feast lie with the raft team.
33:23I think you need to get moving, guys.
33:25There's too much talk, not enough action.
33:27Let's go. OK, it does float.
33:30All right, that's where we're aiming.
33:32There you go, Putz.
33:35The group must swim 200 metres,
33:38the length of over two football pitches, to reach the traps.
33:44Look, we're going that way. We're already drifting off.
33:48They seem to be struggling to stay on course.
33:50They're not heading straight out to the boys.
33:54You can see where the raft is over there.
33:56The buoy are right over there.
33:59So, they're going to have to go through there.
34:03So, they've drifted significantly off course.
34:09The strong wind is rapidly pulling the raft team away from the boys.
34:13We've got a mission in front of us now,
34:15because we're sort of semi-into a crosswind.
34:21If I'm being totally honest, I would say we ain't moved.
34:25Have they got anyone looking at the boys?
34:27Actually, Iz, I'm struggling to see them boys.
34:30Izzie, you need to be up top to be able to tell us where to go.
34:35Just climb on the raft, have a look...
34:39..and just see, and that way they can steer it better.
34:42I always try and teach both the girls that, you know,
34:45there's no limit to what you can do,
34:47and it doesn't matter if it's a boy or girl situation.
34:51You can be as good as boys. Boys can be as good as girls.
34:54We've recently done sports day at school,
34:57and then I got put in the highest group with all the boys,
35:00and I was the only girl in the group.
35:02OK, let's do this.
35:04One, two, three, go!
35:07Izzie, careful.
35:09All right, keep moving. We can't stop.
35:12That's it, Iz. What can you see?
35:15I can see it. You can see them? Yeah.
35:17We need to go more this way. Let's go!
35:21That's it, Iz.
35:24This is good.
35:26Them boys look a lot closer now.
35:28That's made a massive difference.
35:32With Ezra now at the helm, the group start to make progress.
35:40How much further, Captain?
35:42We're here!
35:49They've made it, but it's quite hard
35:51to get the traps from the seabed.
35:54I'd open my eyes under here and have a look,
35:56and it's a long, long way down.
35:59The traps are sunk 15 feet below the water
36:02and weighted down by two 19-kilo blocks.
36:06I'll have a go. I always have a go.
36:08Have a crack, mate, have a crack.
36:10All right, see you in a bit.
36:22Despite managing to reach the traps,
36:25Eftal struggles to release them.
36:30Oh, my God.
36:32That was a bloody long time to hold my breath.
36:35What's the plan?
36:39There's every chance that they're going to be
36:41slightly panicky on that raft at the moment
36:43because they're committed, fully committed.
36:46They are heavy, so it's slightly difficult to get them off.
36:49They are heavy, so it's slightly worrying.
36:52Don't have any communications with them.
36:54Can't turn back.
36:56I don't know what to do. It's too deep.
37:08It is deep. I could act like a superhero here.
37:11The raft team are struggling to retrieve traps from the sea floor,
37:15which they hope will contain dinner for the dads and their kids.
37:18Hopefully they've got some fish, anyway.
37:20They are 15 feet below the surface
37:23and weighed down by two concrete blocks.
37:26It's a big risk because they've committed to this now.
37:30They've gone out into the ocean
37:32and I just wonder how calm they're staying.
37:34What's the plan?
37:36Erm, I'll do it.
37:40Do you reckon you can get all the way down?
37:42Yeah, yeah, I will. It's a long way down.
37:44I reckon we'll be all right.
37:46I think this will be a test for Chris Jr.
37:50He'll build that confidence.
37:52I don't think I'm capable of doing stuff that my dad thinks I'm not.
37:55In Spain, I spend a lot of time in the water.
38:02Taking a single breath, Chris must remove both concrete blocks
38:07and release the 22kg trap from the sea floor.
38:16He's got it.
38:38Hello!
38:40He's really heavy.
38:42Andy, grab. Pull up.
38:45Oh, my God!
38:49Hello!
38:51Whoa! Lobsters!
38:53The reward is Caribbean spiny lobsters,
38:56an island delicacy in Belize.
39:00They've done it.
39:02They've got both up, which is no mean feat at all.
39:05Well done, guys!
39:09As we're sitting on top, they've got the parts.
39:12Let's go!
39:18Ezzy, how good are we?
39:20What do you think your school lot are going to say
39:23when they find out about all of this?
39:25Look what we've got.
39:27Oh, they've caught loads of lobsters, Dad.
39:29Well done, boys and girls.
39:32Absolutely dead.
39:35I'm not joking.
39:39Well done, Ezra.
39:41Oh, God.
39:45Are you feeling OK?
39:47Oh, I am absolutely so tired.
39:51Does anybody mind if I take a seat for a minute?
39:57You knackered? Oh, mate.
39:59That was very tiring, trying to keep balance.
40:02And then I was looking out for the shark fins, just in case.
40:05That was a success.
40:07Was you out there as well?
40:09Oh, well done, mate.
40:11I couldn't tell, but well done.
40:13Well done, Dad.
40:15It's nice that she went out on the raft.
40:17Oh, she loved that. She loved that part of it, yeah.
40:20She didn't want to be seen as like a spare part.
40:23Smashed it.
40:25Seeing her fly like that was fantastic.
40:29There's my girl. There's my daughter.
40:31This is the real Ezra.
40:33She just lit up again.
40:35She was like a ray of sunshine again after she'd done that.
40:40As a father and child team, it's working.
40:43Their relationship's strengthening
40:45because they've put themselves through tough things
40:47and they've had to do it together.
40:49It's amazing.
40:53After a successful day building and foraging,
40:56the group can now enjoy the fruits of their labour.
40:59So, in your father and child pairs,
41:02we're going to take the lobsters out.
41:04So that's where you're going to put the knife.
41:07You need a really sharp blow.
41:09That is the most humane way to kill a lobster.
41:13Who wants to go first?
41:18I'll go first.
41:20OK. Rock her up first.
41:22Dad, you're coming with me.
41:24If you get one of the big ones, they are strong.
41:28It's not like everyone has to be able to kill to eat.
41:31That is quite a big one, isn't it?
41:33Oh, that's massive.
41:35You're forced to think in the process of killing something
41:38in order to eat it.
41:39Oh, my God, they're strong.
41:41Rip it hard.
41:42Nice one, mate.
41:43You're forced to confront your own choices.
41:46Perfect, rocker.
41:48In a way that you're not when you're buying food
41:50that's in a plastic wrapper.
41:52Lovely.
41:53Look at that meat.
41:57I think it's a good thing for everyone to go through.
42:00Now you've killed your own dinner.
42:02Now I've got blood on my hands.
42:04And some butter and some garlic.
42:09It's quite nice, actually.
42:11That is the result of your effort.
42:14You helped make the raft.
42:16You helped swim it out.
42:18You then still had the energy to hold your breath
42:20and dive all the way down and bring up lobsters for the team.
42:23How does it taste?
42:24Tastes tremendous. You'll have to try some.
42:28You're not keen? No.
42:30You don't like it?
42:31Not that keen on fish. No.
42:33But tremendous effort today. Really, really good.
42:40My dad's never seen me do anything like that before
42:42and I think I've made him quite proud.
42:45Brilliant. What a day.
42:47I think my dad thinks I spend too much time
42:49around my computer and stuff like that.
42:51He just needed to see that I'm able to do that stuff.
42:58Good?
42:59Tastes of smoke.
43:00Tastes of smoke?
43:02Yeah, no, I'm not a big fan.
43:04You know how I hate smoke.
43:06Yeah, I was really proud of Rocker.
43:08I'm learning from this experience that he's a hard nut to crack through.
43:11You know, it reminds me that actually he's a 14-year-old boy.
43:14And in many respects, he is a lot more mature.
43:18But the time we're spending together,
43:20we're definitely getting closer
43:21and I'm sort of slowly breaking down, finding cracks.
43:24How is it?
43:25It's got that tangy, tangy, spicy sauce on it.
43:28Mmm.
43:30That might just be the poo.
43:47I think at times I've felt second-hand guilt
43:50and blame myself a lot for what happened
43:53and how it's affecting everyone around me.
43:56And my brother being as young as he was
43:59and being literally Dad's other son,
44:02not that there was... I could have controlled anything,
44:05but it's always going to be in the back of your head, I think.
44:10I want Rocker to feel as close with Dad as he did before.
44:14I want him to feel like he's got back
44:17some of the time he's missed with him.
44:19Can you reach it? All right. You got it?
44:21Yeah, I got it, I got it.
44:23It's mostly I hope Rocker really feels like he's gone
44:26what he has deserved through the last two years from Dad.
44:30And because Dad is such a great dad, literally,
44:33he just... Rocker deserves it all.
44:46I'm really happy with how today's gone.
44:48It was quite a big ask, to be honest.
44:50And they've done it.
44:52They did not only make themselves a slap-up dinner,
44:55but they're all now frolicking in the sea, happy as Larry.
45:01I think everyone is evolving bit by bit
45:03and their relationship is evolving as well.
45:06That's good.
45:09I think a bit like the lobsters, everyone's coming out of their shell.
45:23HE SIGHS
45:28I'm rather quite tired.
45:41You all right?
45:48You all right?
45:52I'm actually not very confident.
45:55Oh, God.
46:01Oh, my God.
46:06Next time...
46:07In the interest of group dynamics,
46:09today we're going to mix it up a little bit.
46:11Step strong, yeah? I'm telling you for your own good.
46:13These expeditions are intense.
46:15People will start rubbing up against each other.
46:17Don't step on that, don't do this, don't do that.
46:20The waterfall is 150ft high. Are you worried?
46:23You should have told us that.
46:25SHE SCREAMS
46:27Oh, my God.
46:28Come on, Ibi!
46:50Oh, my God.