Stay Put & Stay Alive
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95% of all survival rescues take place in the first 72 hours of any survival situation. If your Lost, Staying Put and Staying Calm will maximize your chances of survival. The best thing you can do, is realize that rescue is probably on the way and then find away to make yourself visible to the search and rescue teams.
Stay Calm, Stay Put, and make yourself visible to rescuers by building a fire or finding other ways to signal for help. Your main objective is to make yourself and the area around you stand out from the rest of the environment.
Staying put will help you save energy and will also reduce the risk of dehydration. The more energy you exert the more you put yourself at risk to the elements.
If you feel you have no other options, leave only when you are absolutely sure that there’s no chance of rescue.
Good advice. Staying put is usually the best option.
I think it’s so funny that Bear Grylls and every other Survivalist guy on tv leads his or her faithful viewers to believe the opposite and go walking through the woods trying to find civilization. Gerber knives is actually making a Bear Grylls knife.
well,umtheve been trained all their lives to that while i know enougth to get by but i would struggle ,i mean that almost all of those survivalist shows most of them have twenty+ years of training.
most people when lost die of shame and the bad decisions it leads to.i have never been lost. i was confused in the woods for four days once but i never considered my self lost