Survival SkillsMAVI English Club
• Why did I choose this topic for
today?
• Why do we need to learn survival
skills?
• Basic Survival Skills
How that 7 year old girl survived
the plane crash in the US
Sailor Guztler, the 7-year-old
girl who survived a plane
crash in southwestern
Kentucky, walked 1½
kilometres through the cold,
dark woods to ask for help
from local man.
Why twenty students lost on
Ba Den Mountain
Nearly 100 police,
rescuers and
residents spent the
entire night looking
for twenty students
lost on Tay Ninh
Province's Ba Den
Mountain.
IF ONE DAY WE HAVE TO
FACE SITUATIONS LIKE…
Plane crash
Car crash
Storms
Getting lost in the woods
Boating accidents
Tsunami
Earthquake
“THE RULE OF THREES”
3 minutes without air
3 hours without a regulated body temperature
(shelter)
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Attitude
- More than any other skill, your
attitude determines how successful
you are in a survival situation
- When you faced with a survival
situation, remember to use a
"SPEAR":
•Stop
•Plan
•Execute
•Assess
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•Re-evaluate
The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Air
Air becomes critical to maintain an
adequate supply of oxygen to the
brain on situation:
•Drowning
•Choking
•toxic fume
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The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Shelter
Most people in survival situations die of
hypothermia.
when plan to build a shelter we need
think about:
•Location (away from hazards, near
materials)
•Insulation (from ground, rain, wind, air)
•Personal or Group Shelter
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The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Water
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The best sources for clean drinking
water in a wilderness setting are.
•Springs
•head-water streams
•collecting morning dew
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The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Fire
Even though it is not directly a survival
need, fire is one of the most useful
basic survival skills.
•It can help warm your body or your
shelter.
•Dry your clothes.
•Boil your water.
•Cook your food.
•Creating a sense of security and safety
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The Five Basic Survival Skills
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Food
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Here are something that are easy to identify in
the wild.
•Conifers: the inner bark, known as the cambium,
is full of sugars, starches and calories.
•Grasses: the juices from the leaves can provide
nutrition.
•Insects are an excellent nutritional food supply
and almost everywhere and are often easy to
catch.
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Question
• What is the most important thing to
remember in a survival situation?
• If your plane crashes on a hillside
what shoud you do?
• You are walking through the woods
when you encounter a bear what
shoud you do?