Description
The course begins at 9am (arrive at 8.45am) and finishes around 5pm.
This workshop is designed for outback travellers (and 4WD enthusiasts), to improve the participant’s survival window in the event of a remote vehicle breakdown or abandonment.
You will have a full day of a campfire classroom on private property near Chidlow, set up for all those interested in learning or honing their elementary survival knowledge on how to have a safer or more adventurous wilderness experience, and of course what to do when ‘Plan A’ is not going the way you intended.
You will learn how to prepare for remote travel, how to deal with a remote emergency, whether to stay or go in a breakdown situation and how to obtain survival resources from your vehicle.
Subjects covered include:
- Case studies of what can go wrong
- Psychology of fear and priorities for survival
- Remote travel preparation and basic recovery gear
- Water 1 – physiology, clarification and purification
- Bob Cooper survival kit demo
- Making Fire
- Scenario – Immobile (Car drill Part 1)
- Signaling
- Shelter
- Food
- Scenario – Vehicle fire (Car drill Part 2)
- First Aid Kits/Discussion
- Water 2 – water from environment
- Should I stay or should I go?/Discussion
The course fee: $295.00 (incl. GST) per person
Morning tea and hot water are provided.
What to bring:
- Your own lunch/drinks
- Hat
- Sunscreen
- Waterproof Jacket
- Water Bottle
- Personal Medication (epi-pen, puffer etc.)
On successful completion of the course, you will be presented with the Basic Survival Certificate.
Course Information will be sent to all participants prior to the course commencing.
Minimum age 14 years. Minors to be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
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