jueves, 3 de marzo de 2011

Survival Skills!!!

Survival skills are skills that obviously you use to survive, usually in dangerous situations, like natural disasters I'm going to put in here a list of survival skills, equipment, and organizations that offer survival skills courses.
Ok, so survival skills could be the ones that provide us with all the human necessities, like water, food, shelter & habitat, or they can be the ones that can save us from other dangers, or establish communication with somebody in the need of help like the need to think straight, to signal for help, to travel safely from place to place, or anything like that, but theres a lot of people that dont only use this skills on survival situations, but they use them for recreation, and to interact with nature safely, or anything like that.
Ok...so the skills you need are:
Shelter building
Fire making
Water recolecting
First Aid
Navigation skills
and of course, mental preparedness

And you can learn this skills by either the not so good way, watching the worst case on Discovery channel, the not so good way but better than the last one, using a survival manual like the army's manuals, or the good way that is by taking survival skills courses.
Survival skills courses are training courses that are divided in usually three sections:
Modern wilderness survival (short term 1-4 days)
Bushcraft (medium term 4-40 days)
and Primitive survival techniques (long term 40 days or longer)

and now that i have put a list of the skills, its time for the equipment:
Survival knifes (for shelter making)
A type zippo or a survival lighter (for fire making)
A first aid kit or some of its components, like bandages or anything else
A compass and a topographic map (for navigation)
Glowsticks (since they are safe, visible, long lasting and help for navigation at night)
A survival lantern, or any lantern that could help!

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