SAS 107 – Knots & Map Reading

Notwithstanding having the capacity to peruse and make a guide, your survival hinges on translating indigenous marks to help you discover your direction and to suspect the climate. 


SAS 107 - Knots & Map Reading

SAS 107 – Knots & Map Reading

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If disaster strikes, Remain calm and Patient. Put your plan into Action.Check for injuries and give first aid and get help for seiously injured people.Listen to your battery powered radio for news and instructions. Evacuate, if advised to do so. Wear protective clothing and sturdy shoes.
SAS 031 - Edible Plants
Some plants have edible stems. If they are soft, peel off outer stringy parts, slice, then boil. Inner pith of some stems, example elder, can be extracted by splitting stem and eaten. Use fibrous stems to make twine. 
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You ought to be protected from the wind, close water but clear of any danger of flooding, with an ample supply of wood close nearby. Check above your head for dead wood in trees that might collision down in a heightened wind. don't camp opposite an amusement trail. Take notice that the intonation of running water can overwhelm different tumults which may show peril, or the intonation of quest...
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SAS 094 - Camp Tools
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SAS 162 - Medicinal Plants
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SAS 157 - Diseases
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SAS 115 - Reading Weather & Deciding to Move
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SAS 112 - Direction Finding & Weather
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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 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 042 - Arctic & Desert Plants
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SAS 048 - Animal Tracking
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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 028 - Food
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SAS 075 - Building Shelter
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SAS 057 - Animal Trapping
A fur trapper is an individual whose livelihood occupation includes the trapping of creatures for their hide. In the early days of the colonization settlement of North America, the changing of hides was normal between the settlers and the neighbourhood Indians. Countless areas at which exchanging occurred were pointed to as changing presents.