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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SAS 038 - Trees
Fungi should be emphatically distinguished before consuming. No reliable edibility tests exist – lethal sorts don't taste obnoxious and no side effects may show up for certain hours in the wake of consuming. There is no truth in people tales that a growth is not noxious once peeled or cooked, or that harmful sorts update colour when cooked. 
SAS 139 - First Aid & Choking
To prevent Asphyxiation, Pressure on chest can cause asphyxiation. In an avalanche or landslide, crouch with arms bent and elbows tucked well in to protect the chest. A climber who slips and is suspended by a rope round his chest will find it hard to breathe.
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 013 - Climate & Terrain
Survival can also be obtained from the Decidous Forests, The Temperate Grasslands, Mediterranean regions, Tropical Forests, Savannahs. Be guided by the constellations and travel by night without depending much on the compasses as they are very unreliable. 
SAS 180 - Disaster Strategy, Hurricane, Tornado & Lightning
Tornado Precautions: Take shelter in the most solid structure available ideally in a storm cellar or cave. In a cellar stay close to an outside wall, or in a specially reinforced section. If there is no basement, go to the centre of the lowest floor, into a small room or shelter under study furniture.
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.
PS Emergency Preparedness Checklist (3)
Get ready amaze arrangements prepared that incorporates Normal Exit track, Emergency passageway tracks, Fire Extinguisher, Smoke Detectors, Disaster supplies assortment, Doors, Collapsible Ladder and all crisis things in the Floor arrangements. 
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 076 - Building Shelter
In rain forests and jungle where the ground is damp and crawling with insects a raised bed is preferable. Unless the nigths are cold, the number one priority will be to keep rasonably dry.
SAS 047 - Seaweed & Animal Tracking
Seaweeds occur anchored tot bottom in shallow waters, or floating on open sea. Coastal weeds are often stratified: green forms grow in surface waters, red in shallow water, brown a little deeper. Wash seaweeds in freshwater before eating, to remove salt. If you can read the subtle signs that animals leave, you will know what hunting/trapping methods to use. Only large, powerful mammals ventur...
SAS 073 - Where to Camp & Building Shelter
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...
SAS 156 - Diseases
To reduce risk keep skin covered, sleep under a mosquito net, use insect repellents, and do not camp near swamps or stagnat water. A course of tablets, begun before exposure, can protect against malaria. Not restricted to the tropics, transmitted through saliva of female anpheles mosquito. It kills over a million people a year in Africa alone.
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SAS 054 - Animal Dangers & Trapping
It is easier to trap than to hunt small prey. Choice of baits and site is important. Food may be scarce, but a little used as bait may bring rewards.Be patient and give the traps tim. Animals will be wary until they get used to them - that is when they will run into them. 
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 172 - Dangerous Water Creatures & Predicting Disater
Accidents and isolation are not the only causes of a survival situation. many natural and man made forces can produce disasters in which your survival skills and strategies will come into play.
Building a Foxhole
After the Encounter of Kasserine Pass, U.S. troops more and more received the advanced foxhole, a vertical, jug-shaped hole that permitted an officer to stand and battle with head and bears exposed. The foxhole broadened close to the base to permit a fighter to hunch down while under forceful big guns shoot or tank attack. Foxholes might be amplified to two-man battling positions, and additionally...
SAS 098 - Ropes & Knots
It is important to select the right know for the task in hand. You never know when you may need to tie a knot, so learn their uses and how to tie - and untie each one.