Our one day Essential Basic Survival Course 1 is both rewarding and challenging with SCT’s indoor and outdoor training

Duration

8 Hours

About

This comprehensive course will introduce you to the world of wilderness and bush survival skills in an innovative and insightful way, providing you with the core essentials to surviving your journey into the outdoors

This exciting 1-day basic course will introduce you to a number of diverse, essential survival and bush skills gleaned from various survival, bushcraft and wilderness rescue concepts. These core bush skills will focus mainly on modern survival methods and gear.

There are a lots of skills to be learnt on this basic survival course, so expect a full day and a steep learning curve, however, it will be highly informative, hands-on and fun at the same time.

Our qualified instructors are trained in both modern survival techniques and in more traditional wilderness craft, with qualifications from some of the top survival and bushcraft schools internationally.

Whats Included

• Survival priorities (Top 5: Protection / Shelter, Fire / Warmth, Water, Rescue Signals, Food).
• Survival psychology – Don’t panic, S.T.O.P., √, familiar, control (take back).
• Essential equipment – 14 items (the most important kit or gear to carry).
• Proper clothing and ‘kit mentality.’
• Survival knife specifications, features & techniques for using (compared to other knives e.g. camp knife or field knife) – what to look for when purchasing.
• Basic survival knots.
• Basic wilderness first aid – including managing snake bites.
• Basic natural navigation.
• Simple & effective rescue signals.
• Heat loss & gain mechanisms.
• How to set up modern tarps / emergency blankets.
• Improvised natural shelter construction.
• Preparing to light a fire using modern methods (fire steel / ferrocerium rod etc).
• Water (treating and purifying).