Foraging Safety and Finding Rescue

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Strap in because we're going Why are we going you're going to tell us I know, A falling So You fall out with plane The ground is hurtling towards you at one hundred and twenty miles per hour. We've all flown on a boeing. Don't be too hard on yourself At this point, there's good news and there is bad news. The good news is whatever calamitous event led you to being ejected from the aircraft hasn't killed you. Bad news is what awaits you now a six mile freefall followed by weeks of recovery alone and potentially months of self sufficiency in the wilderness But not to worry becausecause just before you took off You listen to this very shorthand Over the next twenty or so minutes, we will equip you with a load of vital information you might not know about surviving in harsh, remote conditions. For the first time ever This might just save your life This is the shore So where are we Oh yes. You're six miles up and falling And weirdly, things could actually be worse Had you fallen from a tenth story balcony or off of a cliff You'd only have a few seconds to prepare yourself for your impending reintroduction with the Earth Luckily for you at about six miles up. You've got a good couple of minutes to get yourself ready for what is probably going to be quite a rough landing Unfortunately, at six miles up, the oxygen is quite thin, however. And freezing So the bad news is that you are going to pass out It's probably best to see this as a nice bit of light relief before you come back round And the realization of your impending thump Hits you once again Once you wake up, it's probably best to look for some more positives. too caught up with the technicalities like your odds of survival. becausecause sure that is very, very low, but It's not zero And that's something you can hold ono Firstly, you need to take a look around and assess your situation. The million dollar question is Are you still stratched to your seat If you are, that is excellently great fantastic news. The odds of living to tellell the tale are significantly higher if you have a bit of wreckage to protect yourself. Juliian Capico was blown out of a blockheed electra On Christmas Eve nineteen seventy one and woke up strapped her seat in the Amazon jungle k have Merry Christmas Sure, she had a broken colophone and had to wander the jungle clinging to life, but she did make it out alive and that is an enormous win If you're not attached to a piece of wreckage, it's probably time to start thinking about trying to slow yourself down The main thing is to make yourself as wide as possible in order to maximize your drag. That is your best shot of fighting the forces of gravity pulling you speedily downwards The ideal position would be a sort of mid air starfish, chest down, arching your back with your head upwards Classic skydiver pose. Now once you've adopted the falling position, it might be a wise idea to have a look down and think about what you want to aim for The optimal landing materials are things that will either compress or breraak. as they'll absorb some of the energy of your landing. Mud, swamps and freshly plowed fields are great. Snow is even better Trees are also good but try to aim for the outside branches rather than going down the centre you know, to avoid being impaled if you're falling towards a more built up area Well, at least you won't have to find your way back to civilization. Remember, keep thinking about the positives The bad news though, is that towns and cities are notorious for being quite concrety, and concrete isn't great for cushioning or landing. Try and have a look for a tiled roof or even some sort of nice breakable glass to go crashing through to slow down your descent Let's have a look at Alan Mcee, who was blown out of a B seventeen flying fortress during World War two He fell about four miles, completely unconscious before crashing through the glass roof of a railway station in the sleepy town of Staint Niser in France. Alan survived the fall with a few cuts and a couple of broken bones. And he lived to the ripe old age eighty two So stay positive. rememember Alan as you're hurling towards your certain demise. What you absolutely must not do aim for any water. That is what I thought you should have done Myth Busting. Myth Boosten. L saving reed handed shorthanded. Unlike snow or mud or a bog, Water doesn't compress only moves out of your way And that's fine when you jump off the diving board at your local swimming pool, but the harder you hit it, the less likely the water is to displace itself, which is why belly flops hurt so much If you hit the water at one hundred and twenty miles per hour, it doesn't give the water a lot of time to get out of your way, so effectively it becomes concrete that swallows you afterwards Pus If you do miraculously survive this impact re probably not going to be feeling particularly up for a swim This is bonkers. So aim for glass roofs. Don't aim for water Yes. I hope you are writing this all down. Listener I really hope there are people listening who are like on a plane Be fearless in the sun with Blue Lizard Australian sunscreen. 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Be sure to get them now at bataviaoncerts dot com Bavia more lots more So you're aiming for something nice and squitchy as for your landing position There's not a massive consensus on what works best The golden rule is anything but head first. You essentially want your head to be the last thing that hits the ground so that it's going nice and slowly when it does eventually hit The last thing to remember is to try and stay in your skydiver's position until the last possible second The moment you curl up into a ball or go into a pencil position, Your drag is going to be significantly reduced. and you're going to accelerate The aim of the game here is to be going as slowly as you can manage when you hit the ground. and for your deceleration be as gradual as possible With all of that in mind The last possible second is also probably a good time to repent for your sins and pray to all of the gods you can think of because the odds of sticking the landing still essentially zero Against all the odds, you have nailed the touchdown. And you weren't immediately turned into human pulp Now what Well, as we've already said, if you land in civilisation, the odds are somebody probably noticed your one hundred and twenty mile an hour arrival, and you'll be in hospital within the hour If you land in the wilderness That is a whole other kettleer fish And yes, this is the twenty first century and it feels like there's not a whole lot of unchartered territory There are more wild places on the planet Earth than you might think and without good phone signal, You've got a pretty good chance of being stranded miles from civilization The most important part of survival in the greatreat oututdoors is knowing your priorities absolute first priority is to stay calm and positive. Be more Allen Despite what you might have seen on TV, when it comes to survival, less is more There is no circumstance in which you need to find yourself scaling a cliff, swimming across a lake or whatever we've seen on bear Grills. And as with saying positive Congratulations, you just survived falling out of a plane So few people can say that The odd of pulling that off were extremely fucking low And now you're out and about, surviving out in the wild much higher So your next priority is first aid If you or any fellow survivors have a problem with your airways, circulation, breathing, or any kind of severe bleeding You need to deal with that immediately There is absolutely no point focusing all of your efforts on setting up a badass campsite only to bleed to death as soon as you sit down It's important to remember especially if you've been in some kind of accident that you and those around you are going to be flying high on adrenaline So you might not notice at first that something is wrong. And also you'd be able to sell your lugg out without feeling it So calmly check yourself over and check anyone else who's with you to make sure that they don't have any immediate injuries that need to be dealt with Once that's sorted, you need to start thinking about the rule of threes You can survive three minutes without oxygen. You can survive three hours without shelter in a harsh environment Three days without water and three weeks without food You're good for oxygen. We've got oxygen covered because you didn't fall in the water So you need to start thinking about shelter and then you need to start thinking about water If you're exposed to extreme weather, hot or cold, it's going to sap your energy and kill you off in a matter of hours If you've landed somewhere really hot, you need to start looking for shade and you need to do it quickly coover your head and your neck, Do not start running because that will just make you hotter Then if you have any drinkable fluids to hand, drink them immediately A common misconception is that survivors need to ration water Actually, it takes significantly more water to rehydrate than to stay hydrated So if you're thirsty, have drinkable water, drink it until you are no longer thirsty. It's much better to stay hydrated while you can Yeah, that I saw that on I shouldn't be alive and they were basically saying Don't take little sips because it's pointless. you need to take big gulps of water and just focus on finding more And it's so counterintuitive to what you think you should be doing as R just said, Dink the water and then hope you can find some more and figure it out Because if you ration on your water, you'll become unwell, and then you won't be able to search for more anyway in the extreme cult Staying warm is everything So once again, your top priority should be finding shelter from the elements if you're surrounded by deep snow Digging a deep snow hole can be a great option Snow is actually a great insulator And if you dig yourself a small entrance leading into a nice big bunker in the snow You can get yourself pretty toasty in snow timee Just remember to build any snow holes wide and tall enough that you're not physically touching the snow when you lie inside it Otherwise that's not a snowhole. You've just built yourself a snowy tomb Now if there isn't any snow then looking for another form of natural shelter is a great start. Small caves, overhanging rocks or fallen trees can be good options And if they're not perfect to begin with, some sticks and foliage can go a long way to making yourself a nice protective new home. Hydration in the cold is less of an issue. Colder climates tend to have much larger abundances of water and you can always melt snow and ice er important though, that being said, do not eat snow Do not do it. Eating snow is going to lower your body temperature massively won't do much in the way of actually hydrating you. So eating snow will probably kill you Be sure to melt it first Naturally, if you've landed somewhere cold, you should be more concerned about fire than you should be about water. In fact, starting a fire is important even in areas of extreme heat, mostly because you'll want to purify any water that you can't guarantee is clean And also to get spotted If it's coming from the ground or some kind of watering hole The water could be teeming with bacteria, which is going to make you very ill And on top of that, deserts get really cold at night. and you don't want to spend all day finding shade only to catch hypperothermia that evening Starting a fire in the wilderness is no easy feat. It took humanity quite a few thousand years. to master it, so don't be too hard on yourself. The most important thing is to have nice dry fuel to burn The smaller and the crispier, the better It doesn't matter how quickly you can rub two sticks together or bash some rocks if the spark doesn't land on something that's easy to burn Wood shavings are a great option or even better cotton wool which is included in first aid kits And if you're struggling with the more old school methods, using glass to concentrate the sun's rays onto something flammable is always a great way to get a fire going M. Once you've got fire and water sorted, it's time to start thinking about our last two priorities. Food and rescue We've said already You can last three weeks without food under good conditions. So while it might feel scary not knowing when you're going to eat next It isn't as vital as you might think to get a daily meal. In fact, eating actually uses up water and could cause dehydration if you haven't got easy access to more fluids So unless you have plenty of water, Don't worry that much about food And if you think people are probably out there looking for you and you don't think you're going to be out in the wilderness for more than a few days Food really isn't the biggest priority Unless you can access it easily, there can be a lot of risk for not a lot of reward Getting into fast flowing water, with a handmade spear, for example, or climbing a tree in order to try to get something to eat can be a sure fire way to get yourself injured So is a random berry that you don't recognize. I've seen into the wild. I know that Now obviously if you recognize something like a banana or a coconut, go ahead and tuck in. But if you're not sure, then you need to be really, really careful And if you fancy your chances that hunting, animals like fish, frogs and birds are a great way to sustain yourself. but again, you could very easily get yourself injured. Yeah, O eat a poison frog If you are genuinely starving and you need to start eating plants, you don't recognize there are a few rules of thumb. If it has white berries, milky sap, an almandy scent, seeds, beans or bulbs inside pods, thorns, spines or hairs, a bitter taste, grain heads with pink or black spurs, or groups of three leaves, do not eat it. Top tips All of those things I just listed are signs that that plant is not going to make friends with your insids Your insides will soon be on the outside But if you do find a plant that looks edible You've got time to test it First and foremost, make sure that there is enough of this plant around to make the test worth it because it is pretty laborious If there are loads of that plant around, split the plant into its constituent parts, stems, leaves roots,erries, etcetera And then make sure you don't eat anything else for at least eight hours and only drink purified water way if something makes you sick You'll know exactly what it was. F Diary. Yes, very long drawn out. Fjari So now you're prepped It's time to start testing One part of the plant Crush the part you've chosen into a paste and hold it against your skin for fifteen minutes Now wait eight hours and see if your skin shows any sign of a reaction Do doesn't? That's a great stock Cook the plant if you can, and hold it against your lip for three minutes burns or tingles notot just because it's hot Bad vibes If that's gone okay, put a small piece of the plant on your tongue without chewing it and wait for fifteen minutes If you're still okay, take another bite, chew it without swallowing, and hold it in your mouth for another fifteen minutes. If there's no reaction again It's time to swallow a very small amount, a single lea or a pinch of grain at most Now wait for another eight hours If you don't vomit or go on some sort of mental trip, it's okay to swallow a slightly larger amount roughly a quarter of a cup's worth and wait another eight hours If that doesn't make you sick, you're probably okay to eat that specific part of the plant in the very specific way that you have prepared it But remember, just because that part of the plant is edible It doesn't mean the rest is, so you should test each part just as thoroughly Mhm like the grapes