In this chapter Pi finds a survival guide and begins listing the tips from it. There are numerous useful tips and some specific ways to keep alive while adrift, but nothing on training tigers or co-existing with a 450 pound predator. He must create his own training plan, starting with the dictation of territory, creation of shelter, and more.
Some instructions are:
- Do not drink urine, sea water or bird blood
- Do not eat jelly fish, fish with spikes or that puff up like balloons
- Pressing the eyes of a fish will paralyze them etc...
