SAS 020 – Swimming & Food

When fishing or swimming stay within your depth and watch for large waves which can knock you off your feet. If caught in undertow of a large wave, push off thebottom and swim to the surface.


SAS 020 - Swimming & Food

SAS 020 – Swimming & Food

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SAS 104 - Knots
A secure knot, but will come untied with a single sharp tug on the live end. Recommended for temporarily anchoring lines. Carry a bight round a post or rail. ring a bight from the standing end through the firstbight. Form live end into a further bight and push doubled end through loop of second bight.
SAS 169 - Dangerous Water Creatures
Some of the dangerous water creatures are Electric eel, Piranha, Stingray, Rabbitfish, Tang toadfish, Scorpionfish, stonefish.
SAS 135 - Rescue & Signalling
Information Signals: If you abandon camp leave clear direction markers to indicate your route. Continue to make them, not only for people to follow but to establish your own route as a guide if you start going back on your trail
Healing Bullet Wounds
Stop the bleeding by applying pressure directly to the wound with any available clean cloth. If the bullet has exited the body, apply pressure to both puncture areas. Remove the bullet, if it's still inside the body, with a pair of sterlized hemostats, Most of the bullet fragment upon impact to ensure that all bullet fragments are removed.
SAS 103 - Knots
SAS 084 - Fire
Gouge a small depression at a near end of baseboard. Cut a cavity below for tiner. Shape the spindle evenly. Make a bow from a pliable shoot and hide, twine or a bootlace. Use hollow piece of stone wood to steady top of the spindle and exert downloard pressure. Wind bowstring once round spindle.
How to Perform a Tracheotomy
This strategy, particularly called a cricothyroidotomy, ought to be undertaken just when an individual with a throat obstacle is not fit to inhale to any detectable degree, no panting sounds, no hacking, and just after you have endeavored to perform the Heimlich Maneuver several times without dislodging the obstacles.  
SAS 038 - Trees
Fungi should be emphatically distinguished before consuming. No reliable edibility tests exist – lethal sorts don't taste obnoxious and no side effects may show up for certain hours in the wake of consuming. There is no truth in people tales that a growth is not noxious once peeled or cooked, or that harmful sorts update colour when cooked. 
Finding Direction
Direction finding points to the foundation of the course from which an appropriated sign was transmitted. This can point to radio or different manifestations of satellite correspondence. By joining together the bearing qualified information from two or suitably divided recipients (or a lone portable recipient), the root of a transmission may be found in space through triangulation.
SAS 129 - Sea Survival, Rescue & Signalling
Making a Land Fall: When approaching land, select a landing point where it will be easy to beach or swim ashore. Take down the sail; the sea anchor will keep you pointing at the shore and will slow down your progress. Steer away from rocks.
SAS 117 - Moving
Always move in formation. This will make it easy to check that no stragglers have been left behind. Have a briefing before setting out to discuss the route and to designate rallying points at which to regroup.
SAS 175 - Disaster Strategy & Fire
Escaping through fire: Sometimes the best escape route may be to run through the flames. This is impossible if they are very intense and the area covered by thefire is great. In a large clearing or on heath land, however, it may be possible to run through less dense fire to refuge on the already burned-out land.
SAS 097 - Clothing & Ropes
Taking care of Rope: Rope should be protected from exposure to damp or storing sunlight and if made from natural fibres, from attack by rodents and insects. If it does get wet, do not force dry it in front of a fire. Do not drag it or leave it on the ground. Dirt can penetrate and work away at the fibres.
SAS 080 - Building Shelter & Fire
Fire is crucial to survival. It furnishes warmth, security and a method of signalling; it bubbles water, cooks and jam nourishment; it warms metal to make instruments and prepare pots. You should memorize to light a blaze at whatever place under any conditions. It is not enough to know every last trace of the techniques – you need to be master at them. 
SAS 023 - Arid Regions
An area is arid  when it is described by a severe absence of good to go water, to the degree of ruining or anticipating the development and growth of plant and creature existence. Domains subject to bone-dry atmospheres will consistently absence vegetation and are called xeric or desertic. 
SAS 139 - First Aid & Choking
To prevent Asphyxiation, Pressure on chest can cause asphyxiation. In an avalanche or landslide, crouch with arms bent and elbows tucked well in to protect the chest. A climber who slips and is suspended by a rope round his chest will find it hard to breathe.
SAS 072 - Preparing Fish & Camping
All freshwater fish are palatable. Whenever the fish is gotten, cut it is throat to drain it, and evacuate gills. To gut it, opening from the butt-centric opening to the throat. 
SAS 145 - First Aid & Wounds
Soap is an antiseptic: use to wash wounds. Wash hands in boiled water before cleaning wound. Wash wound in boiled water or if none is available use urine, which is sterile and will not introduce infection.