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Survival Skills
Knowledge Weighs Nothing
There are some fundamental survival skills everyone should know how to do but which many of us have never tried or even cared about. Do you know how to:
Protective Survival Clothing & Footwear
Planning your emergency clothing and weather protection needs are quite obviously region specific. Southerners probably don't need full winter jackets in the summer, while those in the northern climes are probably good without water-shoes or bathing suits during the winter months.
Use a Signal Mirror
Back in the late 1980s, an oral surgeon was in the middle of a two-week raft trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, when disaster struck.
He and two other men were on the bank, getting their 18-foot (5.4-meter) raft ready for a trip down the Crystal Rapids when it got caught in a wave, filled with water and ripped the line from their hands.
