Survival Skills How to Avoid a Survival Situation

Survival Skills

How to Avoid a Survival Situation ► Be educated and knowledgeable! ► Plan ahead! Be organized! ► Don’t take unnecessary risks! ► Leave a trip plan! § A detailed information sheet including where you are going, when you plan to be back, contact info, where you plan to be a certain times along the trip.

What Makes a Situation Survival? ► If you are in a survival situation it means something has gone wrong § YOU ARE LOST § YOU ARE OUT LONGER THAN YOU EXPECT TO BE § YOU DON”T HAVE ENOUGH RATIONS

What are your priorities in a survival situation? ► Food, Shelter, Water, Navigation, Signaling, Weather Prediction, Fire, First Aid

Rules of 3 ► 3 minutes without oxygen ► 3 days without water ► 3 weeks without food

Keys to Survival • • S - Size Up The Situation (Your condition, tools, surroundings) U - Use All Your Senses, Undue Haste Makes Waste R -Remember Where You Are V - Vanquish Fear and Panic I - Improvise V - Value Living A - Act Like the locals L - Learn Basic Skills

Goals in a Survival Situation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. make SHELTER to protect you from different weather conditions. make a FIRE also when you don't have any matches. find and purify WATER. find FOOD. use different ways of SIGNALING to attract attention NAVIGATE without a map and compass. Basic Wilderness FIRST-AID. Basic WEATHER prediction.

Problems to Overcome ► Pain ► Cold ► Thirst ► Hunger ► Fatigue ► Boredom & Loneliness