Challenge I: Treasure Chest
A treasure chest is submerged
150 yards off the Sand Spit. Each tribe must swim out to the treasure chest. Once the entire tribe has arrived,
they must dive down and work as a group to drag the chest along the ocean bottom back to shore. First
tribe to haul their chest ashore and open it wins.
Winning Tribe Gets: Reward -- snorkel, mask, fins, fishing spear
Winning Tribe: Tagi
Challenge II: Rescue Mission
A cooperative effort to rescue
an "injured" tribe member from deep in the jungle. Starting on the rocky beach near Bird Island, tribes dash
into the jungle carrying a stretcher. The first team to locate their injured tribe member, load her onto the
stretcher, and carry her back to the beach to the first aid station, wins.
Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity
Winning Tribe: Pagong
The Vote:
Stacey- Dirk, Richard, Rudy,
Sean, Susan
Rudy- Kelly, Stacey
My comments:
Right off of the bat in this episode we can see that the cast is starting to lose weigh because of
the lack of food, so the casts start looking to other means to get the food that they need and this
means rats. But Tagi gets a break when they win the mask and snorkel because this allows
Richard to start earnings his place but catching what no one else has caught, fish. When Tagi
lost the immunity challenge I was hoping that Stacy would get kicked off but when see did I
actually felt bad that I was that upset with someone that really did hold up her weight if she
would have kept her mouth shut she might of lasted longer.
What CBS had to say about the
episode:
On the evening of their ninth day, Survivor's third castaway was voted off the island. As
a fierce tropical storm unleashed rain, lightning and raging winds on Pulau Tiga, Stacey Stillman, the San
Francisco litigation attorney, who goes by the nickname "Boom Boom", was told that it was time for her to
go.
"It was a hard decision to make," said Susan Hawk, the 38-year old Wisconsin truck driver
who has become Tagi tribe's matriarch. "But you do what you gotta do, and I think we voted in the best
interest of the tribe."
Stacey had struggled in her first six days of island living, angering her fellow tribe
members with adversarial opinions and a habit of rolling her eyes. Tagi tribe also felt Stacey wasn't
contributing enough to the tribe's well-being, and not working as hard as they would have liked. Stacey
attributed that early opinion to her innate shyness, which can make her appear aloof. She had hoped to turn
that around. "I'm really very sweet. If this was Gilligan's Island, I would be Mary Anne," Stacey noted in her
first week on the island. "I hope the others can see that I'm nicer than I let on."
Accordingly, Stacey had changed in the last three days. She'd not only been more open
and approachable, but something of a hard worker. She was even responsible for her tribe's winning the
bug-eating immunity challenge. In fact, in the days leading up to the third Tribal Council, her work ethic
compared with hard-charging Susan's.
Better Days
The storm put a symbolic end to a honeymoon period for the castaways. After a difficult
immersion into island living, both Pagong and Tagi tribe had begun talking about how much they enjoyed
Pulau Tiga. They rhapsodized about the beautiful beaches, purple-and-orange sunsets, and the simple joy
of being without phones, email, or a job to report to daily. Even Pulau Tiga's stifling heat and humidity had
become tolerable as their bodies adjusted.
Pagong, the MTV Beach House of Pulau Tiga, even began acting like it was all a vacation.
They fished very little, and worked even less on improving their shelter. In fact, they did little but lay in the
sun, spend hours playing games and talk about sex and island politics.
And that's fine with them.
"I'm stranded on an island in the South China Sea," noted Greg Buis of Pagong. "It
doesn't get any better than this."
Greg has attracted the attention of Colleen Haskell, the demure bookstore employee from
Miami. The pair often swim in the snake-infested ocean together, and slip into the jungle alone at night.
However, the rice supply each tribe enjoyed during their first week on the island was dwindling. Both tribes
were on the verge of joining the snakes in the consumption of rats to sustain themselves . When the In
From The Deep Reward Challenge was announced, it loomed as the ideal chance for one tribe finally to
spear some fish; for the reward was none other than a mask, snorkel, fins, and a fishing spear.
The losing tribe, of course, would be without those accouterments.... Held on the Sand
Spit, an S-shaped island just off the coast of Tagi Beach, In From the Deep asked each tribe to swim to a
buoy one-hundred yards offshore. Once the entire tribe arrived at the buoy, they would dive down to the
sandy ocean floor, a depth of ten feet. A treasure chest would be waiting. The first tribe to drag their
treasure chest to shore would be the winner.
Gervase of Pagong was apprehensive as the Challenge was announced. He only recently
learned to swim. "I can do it," he said as his tribe rallied around him. "I'm not gonna let you guys down."
And though Gervase performed admirably, Tagi was a team of aquatic athletes. Richard
is an experienced skin diver, Rudy spent his life in the water as a Navy SEAL, and Kelly makes her living as
a river guide. They reached the buoy ahead of Pagong, then quickly dragged their chest back to shore to
claim their . "This afternoon," crowed a triumphant Richard, "I'm gonna catch us some fish." And he did.
Pagong, on the other hand, experts at catching rats (Greg explains his rat trap invention),
finally learned firsthand the taste of roast rat. In fact, it wasn't long before the Malaysian field rat became the
delicacy of their choice.
Rescue Mission
The constant fear in castaway life, now that they've come to enjoy the solitude, is Tribal
Council. The forum for voting off castaways is a danger they'd like to avoid at all costs. Hence, the
courageous behavior of Jenna for Day Nine's Rescue Mission Immunity Challenge.
Rescue Mission involved each tribe "rescuing" a tribe member from the jungle. Each tribe
dashed from the rocky beach near Pulau Tiga's northern tip, into the rattan-and-vine-covered expanse. That
section of the island is also home to Pulau Tiga's Reticulated Python population, meaning that in addition to
avoiding the sharp barbs of rattan branches, they must be on guard against 30-foot, 300-pound snake
attack.
Once rescued, the "injured" castaway would be loaded on a stretcher and carried to a
first aid station back at the beah. First tribe back would win immunity.
Due to a night spent sick, Jenna was to be Pagong's stranded castaway. Kelly would
play that part for Tagi. However, Jenna declared that she was a better athlete than Colleen, and that Colleen
should be rescued.
Which is why, weak and nauseous, Jenna toed the starting line while Colleen dangled by
carabiners from a jungle tree alongside Kelly. In the end, Pagong won Rescue Mission by a small margin,
and faced the long hike to Tribal Council
Go Where
Tagi was soaking wet as the final votes were announced at Tribal Council. Stacey was
shocked to be voted off. When told it was "time for her to go," Stacey's pained response was "go where?"
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