SAS 108 – Map Reading & Direction Finding

Direction Finding: The sun rises the eas and sets in the west, roughly speaking. In the northern hemisphere, at noon, the sun will be due south; in the southern hemisphere it will be due north. The hemisphere is indicated by the way shadows move: clockwise in the north, anti-clockwise in the south.

SAS 108 - Map Reading & Direction Finding

SAS 108 – Map Reading & Direction Finding

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SAS 125 - Sea Survival & Signalling
How to Signal at Sea ? Use flares, dye markers and movement of any kind to attract attention at sea. If you have no signalling equipment, wave clothing or tarpauliins and churn the water if it is still. At night or in fog use a whistle to maintain contact with other survivors.
SAS 061 - Hunting
To make a stave for hunting, select a supple want. To determine correct lenght, hold one end of staveat hip with right hand, reach sideways with left hand and mark extent of your reach as length of bow.
SAS 036 - Edible Plants
Some poisonous plants are easy to mistake for edible species. Do not take risks: identify carefully. Learn to recognise the following in addition to those illustrated: The ButterCups, Lupins, Vetches or Locoweeds, False Helleborines, Henbane, Virginia Creeper, BUckthorns.
SAS 068 - Fishing
Using the floats and weights in hunting is very important. A small floating object attached to the line, visible from the bank, will show you when you have a bit. Small weights between float and hook stop the line trailing along the water or too near the surface, while leaving the hook itself in movement.
SAS 087 - Fire
Cooking in clay: This requires o utensils. Wrap food in a ball of clay and place in the embers. Heat radiates through the clay, which protects against food scorching. Animals must be cleaned and gutted first but need to be otherwise prepared.
SAS 124 - Sea Survival
Survival Afloat: Rafts, boats and dinghies are built to carry a limited number. These numbers should not be exceeded. Place infants and the infirm aboard, and as many able-boclied as can be accomodated. The rest must hang on in the water, frequently swopping places with fit survivors in the raft.
SAS 151 - First Aid & Moving the Injured
Moving the Injured : Loading a Stretcher. A patient on a blanket can be lifted using the blanket. Other methods of lifting depend on the number of helpers. Agree signals for synchronised movements.
SAS 154 - First Aid, Poisoning & Disease
SAS 101 - Knots
Triple Bowline: A bowline made with a twofold line. Structure a circle, pass copied exist close through circle, betraying standing part and trust through circle. This produces 3 circles which could be utilized for supplies haulage, or as asit-sling or lifting saddle with one circle adjust every thigh and the different adjust the midsection. 
SAS 014 - Clothing & Shelter
Severe biting stops uncovered substance in moments. Blanket each part of the figure. External Garments ought to be windproof, at the same time not waterproof. Get out of the wind ! Search for typical haven to upgrade, at the same time evade destinations where a snowdrift, torrential slide or shake fall may cover you. 
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 121 - Moving on Water
Crossing with Ropes: You need a loop of rope three times as long as the width of the stream and at least three people in the party- the fittest person crosses while two control the rope to keep it out of the water as much as possible, and stand by to haul the crosser to safety if difficulties are encountered.
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.  
Wigwam
Wigwams take more time to build than open shelters, but your efforts will be doubly rewarded. Not only can the shelter be warmed by a small fire, reducing the need to collect a huge pile of wood, but the firelight reflects off the walls, providing cheery illumination for sitting out a long winter night.
SAS 147 - First Aid & Fractures
Types of Fracture: If no medical help is expected, reduce closed fractures as soon as possible after injury by applying traction, then splint and immobilise the whole length of the limb. Splints can be pieces of wood, rools of newspaper, ski sticks, etc.
SAS 142 - First Aid & CPR
For Infants and Children, Use less pressure and more compressions. For a baby or toddler, light pressure with two fingers is enough at 100 compressions per minute. Depress chest only 2.5 cm. Give 5 compressions to one lung inflation.
SAS 007 - Facing Disaster & Water
It is no use of giving up when a disaster takes place. Only positive action can save you. People can survive seemingly impossible situations if they have the determination. Self-confidence is a product of good training ad sound knowledge. These must be acquired before you face a survival situation .
NFPA Rating Guide
The NFPA rating Explanation guide refers to the Ratings about the Health Hazards, Flammability Hazards, Instability Hazards, Rating Symbols and the Special Hazards.