SAS 134 – Rescue & Hand Signalling

Some of the codes that are used in the mountain rescues are:
Message: SOS, Message: HELP NEEDED, MESSAGE: MESSAGE UNDERSTOOD, MESSAGE: RETURN TO BASE

SAS 134 - Rescue & Hand Signalling

SAS 134 – Rescue & Hand Signalling

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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 071 - Fish Narcotics & Arctic Fishing
The technique of fishing through ice is effective on any frozen lake or river where the ice is thick enough to bear your weight but not so solid it cannot be penetrated.
SAS 111 - Direction Finding
Using the stars in Direction Finding: The stars stay in the same relation to one another. Thier passage over the horizon starts 4 minutes earlier each night - a 2 hour difference over a mouth. In the northern hemisphere groups of stars remain visible throughout the night, wheeling round the only star that does not seem to move.
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 016 - Hunting
While Hunting and trapping, Tracks in snow are easy to follow, but leave a trail of bright flags to guide you back to base. Make them high enough not to be covered by a fresh snowfall.Bleed, gut and skin while careass is warm. Roll hides before they freeze.Frostible hypothermia and snow blindness are the main hazards. 
SAS 185 - Disaster Strategy & Vehicles
Clutch SlipL Often brought about by oil or oil getting on the clutch plates. To degrease, utilize the blaze quencher, squirt it through review plate opening. 
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
How to Jump from a Moving Car
Flinging yourself from a moving auto ought to be a final resort, for instance if your brakes are flawed and your auto is going to take off a bluff or into an entourage. Apply the crisis brake. This should not stop the auto, at the same time it may back it off enough to make bouncing safer. 
SAS 155 - Diseases
When in water, the survivor is more likely to be exposed to water - borne diseases, or those carried by insects and animals. Tropical diseases are less familiar and will therefore be dealt with here in more detail. Where drugs are not available, treatment is largely a matter of dealing with symptoms and making patient comfortable.
SAS 171 - Dangerous Water Creatures
Porcupine fish, Puffer fish, TriggerFish are very poisonous to eat. They differ somewhat in appearance, but when alarmed all inflate into a spiny ball. The flesh of these animals is poisonous.
SAS 033 - Edible Plants
Roots are starchiest between autumn and spring. All roots should be thoroughly cooked. Scrub in clean water, boil until soft, then roast on hot stones in embers. To cook more rapidly, cut into cubes. Use a sharpened stick to test if they are done.
SAS 039 - Fungi
Agaricus organisms. Maintain a strategic distance from any that stain yellow when cut or wounded, or that scent of carbolic. Some green catches are difficult to recognize from the destructive amanitas.  
PS Family Supply Kit (1)
Disasters happen anytime and any where. And when disaster strikes, you may not have much time to respond. A highway spill of hazardous material could mean instant evacuation. After a disaster, local officials and relief workers will be on the scene, but they cannot reach everyone immediately. 
SAS 162 - Medicinal Plants
Intestinal problems can be permanently eradicated by Mountain avens, Balm, Water mint, Elm, Cleavers, Agrimony, Lesser celandine and solomon's seal.
SAS 043 - Desert & Tropical Plants
Growing tip, enclosed by crown of leaves or bases of leaf stems, is edible in most palms - eat if not too bitter. Avoid fruit unless positively identified. 
ID Theft
For over a decade identity theft has been the number one consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Comission. With over one lac victims a year the problem does not appear to be getting smaller.
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 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.