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 125 - Sea Survival & Signalling

SAS 125 – Sea Survival & Signalling

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SAS 173 - Disaster Strategy & Fire
The best protection from fire is prevention. many fires are caused by carelessness with lighted cigarettes and burning matches. The sun shining through a piece of glass can start a blaze in a dry season. If you are present where a fire starts in woodland, or on heath or grassland, your first action should be to smother it.
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 118 - Moving
Negotiating territory at night can be dangerous, but may be necessary. Because it is difficult to see clearly you are easily disorientated. It is always darker among trees, so keep to open country if you can. When looking at an object at night, look at one side rather than directly at it. It is hard to distinguish anything in a dark mass, but edges show clearly.
SAS 069 - Fishing
When you can see fish but they are not taking bait, tie several hooks to a pole an lower it into water. Suspend a bright object 20cm above the pole, and when fish go to inspect it, pull hooks up sharply to catch them.
Edible Forest Plants
SAS 046 - Tropical & Seashore Plants
The accompanying seashore plants thrive in salty conditions, at the same time countless different palatable plants happen close to the coast. The Oraches tree, Sea Beet, Sea Rockets, Glassworts and the Scurvy grass. 
SAS 049 - Animal Tracking
Sheep will for the most part exist in minor rushes in distant places. Goats are significantly more beyond any doubt-footed than sheep and generally unlikely to way. Deer, discovered in generally-wooded nation on each mainland not counting Australia, differ from the moose to small woods deer of the tropics. Gazelles and gazelles are proportionately changed and boundless. 
SAS 091 - Preserving Food & Organising Camp
Assuming that no charge structure exists between an aggregation of survivors, build an organising board with specific obligations. A program is crucial for every day tasks. 
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 015 - Fire, Water & Food
Fuel origins are confined: driftwood, seal and flying creature large, fuel from wreckage – in compelling freezing empty oil from sump before it solidifies. Could be utilized strong if emptied on ground. In summer, water is abundant. Lake water may look tan and taste saline but vegetation developing in it keeps it natural. 
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 131 - Rescue & Signalling
By day smoke is good locator. Have a supply of smoke-producing material ready to put on your fires. Smoke not only helps rescue aircraft find you, it also shows surface wind direction. Make sure smoke is downwind of landing site and of any panel codes you have laid so it does not obscure them from above.
SAS 052 - Animal Tracking
Trapping needs time but might be truly proficient. Trapping may be sheltered and cheap for the trapper, in any case in present day times it has come to be dubious, due to it is claimed cold-bloodedness. To some extent to location the aforementioned concerns, in 1996, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, a conglomeration made up of state and elected fish and untamed life channel experts, ...
SAS 045 - Tropical Plants
Some of the most useful edible plants are Water spinach, Lotus, Water Lily, Wild Yam, Wild rice, Sugarcane, Millets, Bamboo. One can recognise the relations of cultivated varieties such as avocado and citrus fruits. Always apply edibility test to unknown plants, using very small amounts. 
SAS 055 - Animal Trapping
A Spring Spear trap is a springy shaft with a lance joined is kept taut over the trail. A slip ring made of smooth material connected to an excursion wire functions as discharge. The Nets which fill in as winged creature trap extend a fine net between trees where winged creatures perch. On the other hand, a fine twine criss-crossed between trees opposite their flight way will harm fledgl...
SAS 140 - First Aid & Mouth to Mouth
Artificial Respiration: With any form of resucitation the first five minutes are the most critical, but if breathing does not start, keep artificial respiration up for at least an hour. In a group, take turns. Dont give up !
SAS 112 - Direction Finding & Weather
Weather is much more localised than climate and there can be marked variations between one small area and the next. A regular pattern of day-night change in wind direction suggests a large body of water - whether an ocean, inland sea or a lake - in the direction from which the day wind blows.
SAS 062 - Hunting
A sling is a simple leather pouch in the middle of a length of thong or rope. Attach pouch as one piece threaded through, or two tied or sewn on. To Catapult, take a strong, pliable forked twig, and a piece of elastic material. Thread or swe a puch into the centre of the elastic, tie ends to each side of fork. Use a stones as missiles.