1. Survival Skills

2. 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.

3. 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

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

5. 3 minutes without oxygen
Rules of 3
3 minutes without oxygen
3 days without water
3 weeks without food

6. 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

7. Goals in a Survival Situation
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.

8. Problems to Overcome Pain Cold Thirst Hunger Fatigue
Boredom & Loneliness