Dealing with an outdoor emergency or survival situation
•Understanding human survival needs and prioritising the next steps
•Planning and Preparation for Emergencies
•Understanding international emergency services response
•Discussing real life survival situations and their outcomes (learning from experience).
The Importance of First Aid
• Survival Psychology
• The effects of injuries and casualties on the group survival situation
Survival camp craft and routines
•Gear and equipment
•survival kits
•safe use and best practice for knives, axes, saws, fire kits, etc.
•Making your own resources (cordage, containers, bedding, etc)
Signalling for rescue
Standard international signals
Improvised techniques
Protection from the elements
•Environmental medical (physiological and psychological the affects of being too hot or too cold)
•Understand and take care of your clothing
•Taking advantage of and improving pre-existing natural shelter (caves,hollows, overhangs, fallen trees, etc)
•Shelter building, bedding, insulation and weather protection using natural materials and/or salvaged resources anywhere in the world
•Fire lighting and maintenance using any available method
Sourcing water and making it safe
•Water requirements
•Water sources
•Problems in wild water and medical aspects (dangers of seawater, dehydration, heat exhaustion, toxicity, pathology)
•Water treatment and storage
Acquiring food from the wilds
•Understanding our survival nutritional needs
•Medical problems from malnutrition and/or food imbalances
•Toxins and pathogens in wild food and avoiding them
•Flora (food from plants, roots, tubers, seeds and fruit)
•Fungi (food from fungi, if available) .
•Fauna (trapping, gathering or catching and preparing food from fish, fowl, game, insects and invertebrates)
Navigation
•Locally telling time and direction from natural indicators
•Basic map and compass skills
•Safe techniques for crossing unknown countryside
•Safe river crossing techniques
•Moving casualties
•Best routes· to safety