Thursday, December 1, 2016

What a survival kit included?

What a survival kit included?
Recent few years, traveling topic is more and more popular to the new generation who prefer adventure experiences in wilderness by walking, cycling and driving. It can hardly be avoided that accident happened unexpectedly. A survival kit is strongly proposed to the whole trip to keep you alive for 24-72 hours if you got lost and injured without shelter, fire and water. Exactly, what kind of equipments plays such an essential role in our traveling?
When trapping in crisis, you should follow to:
  • Make a safe shelter
  • Start a fire to keep body warm
  • Find and sterilize water to drink
  • Signal your site
  • Find out a correct way
  • Take basic first aid
  • Find eating food
The most importance is to know well basic survival skills using the stuffs in your kit, so that you will take instinctive action when in danger.

MAKE A SAFE SHELTER
Your first mind should come forth where can you stay when in a survival situation, you need a warm and safe shelter to protect yourself from bad weather and calm down to consider what next step to do. Four things are necessary.

A space Blanket
This is a lightweight blanket for easy carry, fountains in keeping body warm for the reflective silver material, prevent heat from escaping. Also it is used to stop the rain drop to your head as a horizontal shelter. What’s more, it helps to reflect the sunray heat away from you.



A space blanket helps to retain body heat and can be used to deflect the sun’s rays away from you.
An orange bivvy bag
As known that bivvy bag has a highly visible orange color, this helps a prompt catch from air rescue. For a case of Hypothermia, while you are waiting for help, this plastic bag can cover around the body in its body-size, to keep warm in cold and windy environment.




←The orange-colored bivvy bag is light, packs up small and can be a lifesaver in several different ways.
A alpine rope
If you need to erect a shelter, you will find a alpine rope useful. This alpine rope is wear-resisting and non-slip. Prepare about 20m of the rope, packed inside your survival bag.





←A length of sturdy rope should be included as part of your main kit.
A wire saw
Many times, you need some tree poles to support a shelter, but your survival is very compact, there is no enough space to contain a heavy big saw.

START A FIRE TO KEEP BODY WAR
In a humid and cold situation, you must take actions to make your body warm. This time the ready fire kit is effective. Both homemade kit and a read-to-use fire-making kit from market are available. The fire kit include a flint and steel, prepare a small amount of cotton wool in case you cannot find dry kindling in the wilderness, a small magnifying lens for gathering the sunray to light a fire, a microl lighter and waterproof matches.






←Firelighting kits, available from outdoor suppliers, contain flint and steel, tinder and matches
Several tealight candles
The tealight candle is small enough to put in your mini survival kit bag. And they will not melt easily in hot weather.

FIND AND STERILIZE WATER TO DRINK

Essentially, you should carry a bottle of clean water in case of any accidence. But do not drink up your prepared clean water at first time, you need to find and fill buckets of water back to your shelter, use sterilizing tablets to purify the water. You must prepare adequate clean water for your uncertain suffers.

SIGNAL YOUR SITE
You will need a small flashlight and a signal mirror, wear a whistle on a cord around your neck. A few sheets of paper and a pencil will allow you leave information for rescuers. A colorful bivvy bag increases the chance of you to be found easily.

FIND OUT YOUR WAY
Learn to use a directional compass is important. Prepare one more compass in your survival kit in case you lost or damage your first compass.

TAKE BASIC FIRST-AID
Once get injured, you should take basic first-aid by yourself. The survival kit should include the following first aid items:
  • Adhesive dressing
  • Sterile wound dressing
  • Sachets of rehydration powder
  • Salt tablets
  • Crepe bandage
  • Sterile scalpel blade
  • Darning needle
  • Length of thread or wool
FIND EATING FOOD
We know that a person can live for up to 3 days without food and water. This makes you must make eating in the meanwhile you find water. Packing food in your survival kit is not practical, but we can prepare a length of fishing wire and plenty of fish hooks and sinkers. You can catch fish for eating.
↓Keep your survival kit small enough to carry on your person.
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