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How to create own compass 2008-02-17 14:30:18 How to create
own compassA normal compass exists out a small weak magnet in the form of an arrow.That floats on water.Now to make our own compass we need:-water (in a big glass or something else).-a needle.-a cork or a piece of floating and light material.First fill your glass with water.Now cut a piece of the cork and but it on the water.Make sure it floatsNext you take a needle and make it magnetic.There 2 fast ways to do this.-rub it over your clothes-rub it over a magnet in strait lines, repeating the same line for about 15 timesNow that the needle is magnetic you put it carefully on the cork or other floating material you used.After 30 sec you will notice it is pointing to the north.To make sure take the cork and needle out of the water.Lay the needle different on the cork and put it
The Knife-machete in a sheath 2008-02-08 18:35:13 The knifes made from stainless steel with a sawtooth notch on the back part of the edge and the rotary handle, increasing working length of the edge Except direct appointment it can be used for protection against predatory animals, manufacturing of bricks at building of winter block shelters, files of the ice crust, ice, thick branches (sawtooth notch), cutting down tracks in forest, excavation of earthen shelters, self-detention on snow and ice slopes, extraction of sparks and as universal for digging, and the carpenter's and metalwork tool.
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Liquid compass 2008-02-08 18:24:16 Is better to use the liquid compass with small lens which can be useful for kindling fire .
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The alarm whistle 2008-02-08 17:39:03 It is necessary for giving of sound signals (whistle is audible in 2 - 3 times further, than shout). It can be used for scaring away of animals. The whistle should be as much as possible loud and operate even just pulled out of water.
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The alarm mirror 2008-02-08 17:30:19 It is intended for giving of emergency signals to planes, ships, saving groups. It can be used for attraction of fishes by the reflected light of the moonlight and as the household mirror.
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Bullet alarm for nightlight and daylight 2008-02-08 17:23:14 It is necessary for giving of emergency signals for planes, ships, saving groups and so forth (fire, the smoke), for pointing the direction of the wind at planting of the saving helicopter, the plane (smoke), protection against predatory animals, extraction of fire.
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Flint for lighters 2008-02-08 17:16:55 It is expedient to put in one pack with matches. If necessary, stone flint will help to extract fire by means of extracting sparks.
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Matches of the strengthened burning 2008-02-08 17:10:19 Needs for kindling fire, scaring away predatory animals, cauterization the place of a sting poisonous spiders, auxiliary illumination. At night, at absence pyrotechnical alarm means, - for emergency
Dry fuel or plexiglass 2008-02-08 09:56:34 Intends for cultivation of usual and alarm fires, heating of refuges, warming of water and food during emergency spending the night, in unusual cases, when there is no other light sources, - for illumination.
How to attract attention for surviving 2008-02-08 09:26:01 Signals of attraction of attention
: □ orange smoke; □ crimson fire; □ asterisks and flashes of rockets, cartridges-morti-fates, tracer bullets; □ patches of light of alarm mirrors; □ signs-signals on district; □ orange colour stains on water; □ light and a smoke of fires; □ bright clothes; □ patches of light of self-made mirrors, a foil; □ radio buoys and radio stations; □ sound signals; □ light signals the Morse alphabet; □ flags-signals; □ alarm rounds; □ balloons and snakes; □ improvised labels.
How to send the signal of disaster 2008-02-06 08:21:46 · Release of orange smoke; · Flame on a vessel (for example, from burning pitch flanks); · Rockets or the pomegranates which are throwing out red stars, let out one by one through short time intervals; · Red parachute rocket; · Flag signal
NC under the International arch of signals; · The signal consisting of a square flag with a sphere over it or under it; · Slow, repeated raising and lowering of the hands extended in the parties; · Gun shots, or the explosions made with intervals about one minute, or the continuous sound made by any devices for giving of foggy signals; · Distress signal SOS transferred on radio telegraph or by means of other alarm system, or word «mayday», said
Prime actions of the people who have got to an emergency 2008-02-04 17:35:42 Suffered disaster should: 1. to estimate conditions from the point of view of real threat and as soon as possible to leave a dangerous zone; 2. to render the first medical service requiring ; 3. to change, repair clothes, in cold weather to be warmed ; 4. to be protected from adverse climatic influences, having built a time refuge; 5. to spend inventory and search of equipment and useful things (5); 6. to redistribute warm clothes (6); 7. to generate grocery and ware emergency ration (7); 8. to define tactics of the further actions (8). First minutes of failure it's inadmissible: 9. to operate, submitting to an emotional estimation of events; 10. to leave from a place of accident, not having convinced, that the dangerous zone was left by all Read more:people
Water searching in extreme conditions 2008-02-04 17:33:00 If nearby there are no open reservoirs, dig the earth in search of subsoil waters (water after rains and the snow thawing, absorbed in soil). Level of subsoil waters and a water stock depend on a lay of land and character of soil. Stony soil. Search for springs. In calcareous soil of springs it is more and they are larger. As limestones are easily dissolved, subsoil waters form in them deepenings. Try to find in these deepenings springs. Among rocks search for a green grass on slopes of mountains. Dig a hole in that place where a grass the most green, and wait, until water will start to filter. Friable soil. In friable soil, water usually more and easier to find, than in soil stony. Search for subsoil waters in the lowest points of valleys or there where slopes pass in a valley Read more:conditions
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Using water in extreme conditions 2008-02-04 15:23:59 One of the first steps to a survival is a correct establishment of priorities. First of all the person feels requirement for water
, food, fire, a refuge. Degree of their value depends on where you are, however on the first place always there is a water. The adult person can live without food three weeks, but without water - only three days. Do not wait, when water will finish, to start replenishment of its stocks. Store a quantity of water as emergency stock and constantly search for new sources of pure potable water. Daily the human body loses 2-3 litres of water. Liquid loss through breath and sweating increases with intensity of work and rise in temperature. Vomiting and a diarrhoeia strengthen organism dehydration even more. It is necessary to compensate liquid loss by potable wat Read more:conditions