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If a shipwrecked crew drank salt water would they die?

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If a shipwrecked crew drank salt water would they die?

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Yes. If they boiled the water and filtered it in order to remove the salt content, they could survive on it, but salt water straight from the sea dehydrates you rather quickly, due to the high salt content.