Charles DarwinSurvival is not the strongest nor the most intelligent, but the one who best adapts to changes.
The world is full of dangers. Emergencies happen almost every day. What to do? How to protect yourself and loved ones? Typically the first and foremost - be prepared.
You should know how to behave in a given emergency situation. Therefore Layfhaker prepared statement to you for survival. Such knowledge will help to overcome the panic and escape at the critical moment.
wild nature
The man - the crown of nature. But, once in the wild, often becomes weak and vulnerable.
Sleep on the ground, carrying a heavy backpack, get wet in the rain and endure mosquito - people agree on the "charms" of camp life, to witness the emerald waterfalls and coral sunsets. But many children Urbana nature seems too inhospitable. They are not willing to live by the laws of flora and fauna. Therefore, before going camping, We need to prepare psychologically.
11 lessons of survival in the wild
Tuned morally, can pack our things and a route. Clothing, shelter, funds from the sun, navigation, first aid kit, flashlight, tools for starting a fire and minor repairs, food and water - that's the minimum that must be in the stowed backpack.
It is equally important to carefully consider the route: study guides and maps, track weather, read the reports of previous travelers. Being a pioneer is tempting, but it is better to know what the dangers of the selected route. Also be sure to tell relatives where you go.
How to go camping and stay alive
After working the route, explore the natural features of the area. whether fish is found in a nearby pond? What birds and animals live there? Whether there are snakes or scorpions?
This is important from a safety standpoint. After meeting with a wild animal or venomous insects may not always end up with rare pictures... What to do if you are bitten by a snake or you picked up a tick? The answer is in the infographic below.
How to survive the attack of wild animals
Lost in the woods or mountains maybe even a seasoned traveler. Sat navigator broken compass - stuff happens. In such a situation it is easy to panic. Easy! New compass can be improvised.
How to make a compass with his own hands
No less extreme lose lighter or wet matches. Fire - this is the life. Without it, no warm up or prepare food. If you for some reason, left without "Flint", know that there are alternative ways to make fire.
10 unusual ways to start a fire
One of the most effective - using penlight batteries and foil from gum. Watch the video and learn it!
How to make fire using batteries
But remember: the fire - it is death, if to handle it carelessly. Unquenched fire or carelessly thrown cigarette butt may trigger wildfire. Jumping on the caps of the trees, the fire spread rapidly - up to 80 meters per minute. How to get out of the blazing trap? Learn from this article.
How to survive during the forest fire
Another indispensable thing in the campaign - a tampon. Jokes aside! He will not take up much space, but It helps out in many extreme situations. Water Filter, wick candle, wound dressing, the float - that's not all ways to use a tampon.
10 harsh advice, how to use a tampon
Element
October 2012 residents of Cuba, Haiti, the northeastern United States and eastern Canada was remembered for a long time. Normal tropical cyclone just become a powerful hurricane in six hours, sweeping away everything in its path. Wind gusts reached 150 km / h.
The elements raged for eight days. During this time, only in the United States flooded seven subway tunnels, burned more than 50 houses, there was a stop on the reactor nuclear power plant. Were de-energized millions of homes, canceled thousands of flights. Hurricane "Sandy" has brought damages amounting to more than 68 billion dollars and claimed the lives of 185 people.
People can not prevent or stop element. But are required to survive it. Natural disastersLike "Sandy" - a real school of Life.
Lessons that presents the hurricane "Sandy" and other disasters
For example, did you know that a typhoon is necessary to close all the doors and windows? So your home better able to withstand the disaster. The storm should not leave the machine (even if it is hopelessly stuck in the snow), and in the earthquake - to stand in the doorway. For every disaster has its own life hacking.
Life hacking for extreme situations
Binge elements usually leads to destruction of infrastructure. How to survive without heat and drinking water? How to keep food? And the shrunken replace the batteries? Questions, answers to which are summarized in the following infographic.
Useful tips for extreme situations
Special attention should be de-energizing of the home. Electricity is tied a lot of important points: from heating and cooking, and ending communication with the outside world. But if the heater can be made of the available tools (see infographic above), and the food to cook on a fire, the gadgets is more complicated. Many of the homes do not have landline phones, and the mobile phone is the only way to call an ambulance or rescuers. Only he had not discharged ...
How to charge your gadgets without electricity
Man-made disasters
Man-made disaster - a random accident, entailing massive loss of life, panic and environmental impact. Man-made emergencies are divided into industrial and transportation.
The most terrible industrial accident, you can imagine - an explosion at the plant.
In April of this year marked the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. The explosion of the fourth power unit was completely destroyed - the world is confronted with the largest and most severe nuclear accident.
How to survive a nuclear explosion
In Chernobyl irradiating a thousand people. According to the international organization "Doctors Against Nuclear War," died tens of thousands of emergency workers, were more than 10 thousand deformities in newborns, and thyroid cancers. Perhaps these consequences would not be as big, if people knew, as a shelter from radiation. But many do not even know about the Chernobyl explosion and a week later came to the May Day demonstrations.
As shelter during a nuclear disaster
With regard to transport man-made disasters, the most frightening of them - the crash of the aircraft. Many believe that a fall from the sky, you can not survive. But there are examples in history when people remained alive and virtually unscathed.
How to survive a plane crash: 5 important facts
concrete jungle
Modern metropolis at least (and sometimes more) dangerous than wood or desert. Here we need special skills to survive.
Firstly, you need to know how to behave in a crowd (In the subway, at a concert at the meeting). Any mass gathering of people could develop into a stampede. To get out of it, it is important to know these rules, such as:
- do not lose your balance;
- do not go against the crowd;
- do not move "downstream" - is shifted diagonally to the edge.
Second, you should know that such a massacre and what to do if was in the midst of it. One need not be a rebel - mass frequent natural disturbances. You can peacefully walk around the city with his family, and see how football fans vent anger because of the loss of their favorite team in the windows and passers-by. What to do in such a situation? Tip number 1: do not panic.
How to survive the pogroms
The radical opposition, the rebels weapons seriously. Most danger are the so-called Molotov cocktails, that is firebombs.
How to survive after a Molotov cocktail and not very burnt
Thirdly, in our troubled world citizen should always have on hand the alarming suitcase. Someone would call it manic delirium, but, in our opinion, is nothing more than necessary precaution.
The list of things that need to be present with you in case of war
The first help themselves and others
Even a child knows that a fire - call 01, rob - 02, ill - pick up the 03. And many adults also heard that in Russia there emergency number — 112. At the same time adults childishly naive to believe that this is an analogue of the American 911. But this is not yet the case. For example, at 112 not get a home phone.
Emergency number 112: what you need to know about it
We have to provide first aid? We hope not. Layfhaker wishes its readers health and their loved ones. That's why we want you to know the algorithm and techniques of first aid in the tooth.
10 basic first aid skills
Not superfluous will also tactical skills of medicine, when the first aid is in the midst of fighting.
Formation medicine (TC3)
Finally eight more tips can save lives. For example, how not to get lost, if a piece of food choked and hit instead of the esophagus into the trachea.
8 tips that one can save a life
The world is full of dangers. But it does not become less than perfect. The old man Darwin rights: survival is not the strongest nor the most intelligent. We hope that our guide Survival taught you the main thing - Be ready and do not be afraid!