SAS 133 – Rescue & Signalling

Rag Signals: Tie a flag or a piece of bright – coloured clothing to a pole. Move it left for dashes and right for dots. Exaggerate with a figure of eight movement.

SAS 133 - Rescue & Signalling

SAS 133 – Rescue & Signalling

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Store your kit in a convenient place known to all family members. Keep a smaller verstion of the Disaster Supplies Kit in the trunk of your car. keep items in air tight plastic bags. Change your stored water supply every six months so it stays fresh. 
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.
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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 130 - Rescue & Signalling
Siting the signals: Take account of the terrain. Choose high points for light signals. Erect an unusual silhouette or a ridge to attract attention. Planes fly over hilly territory from the lower to the higher ridges, so slopes behind ridges may be hidden as the plan approaches. Signals near tops of ridges should be seen from any direction.
SAS 110 - Direction Finding
Plants can give an indication of north and south. They tend to grow towards the sun, so flowers and most abundant growth will be to the south in the northern hemisphere, to the north in the southern. Moss on tree trunks will be greener and more profuse on that side.
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 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. 
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.
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SAS 179 - Disaster Strategy & Hurricane
A hurricane is a wind of high speed - above force 12 on the Beaufort scale - which brings torrential rain and can destroy any flimsy structures. It is a tropical form of cyclone, which in more temperate latitudes would be prevented from developing in the upper levels of the air by the prevailing westerly winds.
SAS 167 - Poisonous Snakes
Survival from the deadliest snakes like Cobra, Mamba, Boomslang, Krait, Death Adder, Australian black snake, Eastern brown snake, Tiger snake are very difficult indeed.
SAS 094 - Camp Tools
Tree Felling: Check overhead for dead branches and hornets nests. Clear Creepers and branches which could deflect blows. Cut branches off from the outside of the join. Cut from both sides of the tree, first chopping out notch at an angle of 45 and another on the opposite side ata lower level on the side to which you want to tree to fall.
PS Family Disaster Plan (2)
To be on a safer side, keep enough supplies in your home to help for no less than several days. Amass a fiasco Supplies unit with things you might need in a clearing. Store the aforementioned supplies in inquiry, effortless to convey holders for instance rucksacks, duffel packs or secured waste compartments. 
SAS 029 - Food
Gathering plants is one of the tedious tasks to identify place for food. Gather plants systematically. Take a container on foraging trips to stp the harvest being crushed, which makes it go off. 
SAS 037 - Edible Plants
Not all parts of the trees are edible. The outer bark is inedible, but the thin inner bark of certain trees can be eaten in Spring, when sap has started to flow. Peel back bark near bottom of tree or form exposed roots to reveal inner layer. Can be eaten raw, but boiling will reduce to gelatinous mass which can be roasted and ground for use as flour. Some of the poisonous trees contain irritant ...
SAS 040 - Fungi
Agaricus fungi: Avoid any that stain yellow when cut or bruised, or that smell of carbolic. Some young buttons are hard to distinguish from the deadly Amanitas. Dont Use any fungi you cant positively identify.
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.