COURSE OUTLINE
Anticipating outdoor survival situations is essential when in the wilderness. Being unprepared is the biggest danger that people face in outdoor survival situations. Accordingly this program, provides information that will assist you to handle most situations that you may encounter. It includes interviews of scenarios in the outdoors to illustrate what to do before help arrives.
COURSE TOPICS
- Encounters with cougars, moose, elk, wolves, or snakes
- Treating bites and stings from wood ticks, mosquitoes, and bees with first aid
- Bear behaviors and awareness
- Physical differences and general characteristics of Black and Grizzly bears
- General behaviour and body language of bears
- Hibernation and seasons
- Food sources -ominvorous
- Storage food in a campsite
- Bear Country tips when Hunting, camping, and travelling
- Avoiding and awareness of potential bear encounters
- Defensive and non-defensive attacks (confrontational vs predatory)
- How to play dead when needed
- Storage and handling bear spray
- Bear bangers use
- Lyme disease
- Building emergency shelters
- Reacting to lightning strikes
- Dangerous trees during normal and high-wind situations
- Signalling for help to outsiders
- Preparation of water to make it safe for drinking
- Prevention of hypothermia and frostbite
ONLINE COURSE DURATION
About 150 minutes
PASS MARK
A passmark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. You have 2 chances to write the quiz
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Once you successfully complete this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print to keep.
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