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…
How to make a compass in the wilderness for daytime navigation
Navigation at night can easily be accomplished via stars and constellations but during the day, you must have an alternative…
How to communicate with Morse code (using visual, audio, and pressure forms of communication)
Morse code is a method of transmitting textual messages using a series of patterns. Each text unit in the pattern…
How to use hand and arm signals (visual signaling) to communicate silently
In a military or survival situation where silence must be maintained in order to mask your presence from an enemy,…
How to read and use a topographic map in a survival situation.
Topographic maps describe the shape of the land and can be used to help you locate natural and man-made features…
Using a magnetic compass and triangulation to calculate the distance of a faraway object.
In the wilderness, it is sometimes useful to be able to calculate the distance to a faraway object. Using a…
How to Survive Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather Conditions Whether global warming or a natural cycle of atmospheric change, the worldwide...
Using a Map and Compass
To determine the direction, or bearing, from one point to another, you need a compass as well as a map.…
Look to the sky for your weather forecast – clouds as foretellers of weather.
About 200 years ago an Englishman classified clouds according to what they looked like to a person seeing them from…
How to use signaling techniques in a survival situation – visual and audio communication methods.
One of your first concerns when you find yourself in a survival situation is to communicate with your friends or…
Water Crossings – how to cross deadly water obstacles in a survival situation.
In a survival situation, you may have to cross a water obstacle. It may be in the form of a…
The complete guide to sea survival – how to survive in the open sea.
Sea survival is perhaps the most difficult survival situation. Short- or long-term survival depends upon...
Cold weather survival – everything you need to know to survive in a cold environment
Introduction to Cold Weather Survival One of the most difficult survival situations is a cold...
How to survive in tropical habitats.
Introduction to Tropical Survival Most people think of the tropics as a huge and forbidding...
How to survive in extreme, hot conditions (desert survival).
To survive and evade in hot, arid or desert areas, you must understand and prepare for the environment you will…
No compass available? Here are other means of determining north/south direction.
You can use nature to determine the general north/south direction in a pinch. Moss, puddles, snow melt patterns, rings in…
How to use the stars for navigation (in northern and southern hemispheres).
In a wilderness survival situation, you can determine direction using “markers” in the sky, constellations and key stars, that point…
An easy trick for using the Moon for Navigation.
Because the moon has no light of its own, we can only see it when...
How to use the Sun and shadows for navigation.
The earth's relationship to the sun can help you to determine direction (celestial navigation). Shadows will move in the opposite…
Cereus Cactus – edible wild plant – how to find, identify, prepare, and other uses for survival.
Cereus (Cereus species) These cacti are tall and narrow with angled stems and numerous spines....
