Originally Posted By: chaosmagnet
Originally Posted By: Pete
early in the epic they all drank a significant amount of seawater. I would have thought that this would ruin their kidneys, or other organs.


The sea is not all at a homogenous level of salinity. Possibly, they were fortunate enough to be in water with less salt content when they did that.


Even brackish water is way, way, way to salt to drink. Most seawater is typically around 3.5%. I think the definition of brackish water is something like 1% or so. Can't drink that, either.

If the water has 2.8% or 3.5% is of little interest when you're thirsty - you can't drink it anyway.