How to escape a car that has been submerged under water
About 400 people die each year from drowning inside their own submerged vehicles. Here’s how to escape a car submerged…
About 400 people die each year from drowning inside their own submerged vehicles. Here’s how to escape a car submerged…
Navigation at night can easily be accomplished via stars and constellations but during the day, you must have an alternative…
Morse code is a method of transmitting textual messages using a series of patterns. Each text unit in the pattern…
In a military or survival situation where silence must be maintained in order to mask your presence from an enemy,…
Topographic maps describe the shape of the land and can be used to help you locate natural and man-made features…
In the wilderness, it is sometimes useful to be able to calculate the distance to a faraway object. Using a…
Extreme Weather Conditions Whether global warming or a natural cycle of atmospheric change, the worldwide...
To determine the direction, or bearing, from one point to another, you need a compass as well as a map.…
About 200 years ago an Englishman classified clouds according to what they looked like to a person seeing them from…
One of your first concerns when you find yourself in a survival situation is to communicate with your friends or…
In a survival situation, you may have to cross a water obstacle. It may be in the form of a…
Sea survival is perhaps the most difficult survival situation. Short- or long-term survival depends upon...
Introduction to Cold Weather Survival One of the most difficult survival situations is a cold...
Introduction to Tropical Survival Most people think of the tropics as a huge and forbidding...
To survive and evade in hot, arid or desert areas, you must understand and prepare for the environment you will…
You can use nature to determine the general north/south direction in a pinch. Moss, puddles, snow melt patterns, rings in…
In a wilderness survival situation, you can determine direction using “markers” in the sky, constellations and key stars, that point…
Because the moon has no light of its own, we can only see it when...
The earth's relationship to the sun can help you to determine direction (celestial navigation). Shadows will move in the opposite…
Cereus (Cereus species) These cacti are tall and narrow with angled stems and numerous spines....