Boil water for 10 minutes This is one so old; I don’t even know where it came from. I’ve also heard 5 minutes, 15 minutes and even 20 minutes of boiling time. I’ll keep this short… After the water reaches the boiling point, it’s safe to drink, period, end of story. Big bubbles, no troubles. […]
Outside of your brain, a good survival kit is one of the best assets in an emergency. The environment is the key to the types of items you will need in your survival kit. A kit designed for the desert will be different from one for a sub-temperature area. How much equipment you put in […]
To survive as a group, activity must be organized so energy won’t be wasted. Just because you are more people in a survival situation don’t mean that you will have an easy time. The more people, the more difficult and confused the situation will seem, and hereby the greater the group’s problems will seem. All […]
All survival situations are different regarding the order in which you need to use the different survival skills, but a general guideline is to think in blocks of time. The first 24 hours of survival are critical. You have to make an initial estimate of the situation, weather, terrain, time of day, available recourses and […]
The positive mind-set is quite important. You could also call it “the will to survive”, although you might call it “attitude” as well. Basically it means that you need the right attitude to survive. The positive mind-set is not enough; you will also need different skills to survive. I’m concentrating on seven skills to survive. […]
The Survivor Survivor originates from the old French term Sourvivre. Survivre translates to; live longer or longer than. The French term originates from the Latin term Super vivere. Super translates to; more or more than. Vivre translates into; to live. So you could say a survivor is a person who is willing to live more […]
I’ve always had a general interest in survival and outdoor living. So after a couple of survival courses and doing some instructing on the Danish CSAR course, I’ve decided to make this manual. I started initially by making a SERE manual, but the scope of describing the whole SERE concept, would be too time consuming. […]
You may know the term “The Zebra effect”? If not, in a few words, it’s the effect zebras use against a predator hunting them. They gather in a flock, and thus their stripes reportedly confuse the predator. It has probably also something to do with the fact that they might feel more secure as a […]
A new video with my third survival kit. Please feel free to comment and give suggestions for improvement.
This is a description of my second survival kit. Please feel free to comment. Enjoy 🙂