2019FEB091710.00
Survival Mindset Exercise #1
These are primarily exercises to improve your survival mindset through a series of exercises that ask, "WHAT IF" questions that potentially must be solved to move forward.
This exercise is based on WATER and what might happen to your water carrying capacity. How do you solve this problem with your existing kit? This exercise forces you to think about what kit you might not realise you need to improvise a fix and what skills you might need to use or master to complete the task.
Of course you could ask for another persons spare container but for the purposes of realism, you may be in a situation where you are alone or nobody has any spares.
Aim
Improvise water supply when faced with lost or damaged containers.
Challenge
You have six litres of carrying capacity for all your days water. Three, one litre containers and one three litre bladder. You were advised to take six individual containers, but you ignored this. Why? because water bladders are cool! At the start of the day you left one of the bottles at the previous camp. It is mid-day. You put your pack down and break another bottle.
When you check your water bladder you find the water in it has gone off. You didn't clean it out after you put GatorAid in with your water. It also has a minor leak.
You have three immediate problems.
1/ The first is REBUILD lost water CAPACITY.
2/ The second is DIRTY BLADDER.
3/ Water RE-SUPPLY
Your challenge is to fix and clean your the bladder and then repair the hole. Then find an alternative for the broken bottle.
Re-supply your water supply with safe drinking water and from "your existing kit", find a substitute container suitable for carrying.
For added realism, stand outside in the sun and until you solve this problem, do not drink anything.
Time
Until you rig another suitable container and locate more water.
Questions
Some questions that need to be answered.
1/ How much water do you require per day?
2/ How can you repair the above kit?
3/ How can you re-supply your water supply?
4/ How long will it take?
5/ How do you know it is safe for consumption?
Hint
What would you pack to solve this problem that doesn't add that much extra weight or space? Is there anything you could use in your surrounding environment?
Do you have to do things in sequence? Can you do two things at once? What is the main priority? Storage or collection?
Q
* How much water do you think you will get?
* How do you clean the water enough for drinking?
* What in your kit will allow you to remove chance of bugs?
* How do you store the water?
Solutions
Here is one attempt to capture extra water. Not very successful but it proves a couple of points. The next method should be a bit more successful.
Rainfall
1/ It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
2/ You have what in your kit to capture and store water for a passive capture system? How do you ensure the water stays put? You scavenge a few items to hold a piece of kit in place
3/ You start to capture fallen rain and notice particle matter also being collected.
4/ As you capture the water, you realise you have to carry it. How do you jury rig a new water container?
5/ After all your hard work collecting the water, you realise it has contaminants. How do you get rid of them? Even though the water is rainwater, what out of your kit might you use to insure against potential bugs?
6/ This is all you have. You might go through one litre in two hours of movement. Up hill more. Clearly this is not enough. To be continued.
7/ A measly 100ml was captured. Using a Krama or Shemagh run the water through to filter the particulates a couple of times. What in your kit will allow you to further filter the water before you drink the water?
Q.
* What are some other methods to capture water?
* How are you going to cary your full 6 litres you need for tomorrow?
* What in your kit can you use to filter the water?
2019FEB091710.00
Survival Mindset Exercise #1
These are primarily exercises to improve your survival mindset through a series of exercises that ask, "WHAT IF" questions that potentially must be solved to move forward.
This exercise is based on WATER and what might happen to your water carrying capacity. How do you solve this problem with your existing kit? This exercise forces you to think about what kit you might not realise you need to improvise a fix and what skills you might need to use or master to complete the task.
Of course you could ask for another persons spare container but for the purposes of realism, you may be in a situation where you are alone or nobody has any spares.
Aim
Improvise water supply when faced with lost or damaged containers.
Challenge
You have six litres of carrying capacity for all your days water. Three, one litre containers and one three litre bladder. You were advised to take six individual containers, but you ignored this. Why? because water bladders are cool! At the start of the day you left one of the bottles at the previous camp. It is mid-day. You put your pack down and break another bottle.
When you check your water bladder you find the water in it has gone off. You didn't clean it out after you put GatorAid in with your water. It also has a minor leak.
You have three immediate problems.
1/ The first is REBUILD lost water CAPACITY.
2/ The second is DIRTY BLADDER.
3/ Water RE-SUPPLY
Your challenge is to fix and clean your the bladder and then repair the hole. Then find an alternative for the broken bottle.
Re-supply your water supply with safe drinking water and from "your existing kit", find a substitute container suitable for carrying.
For added realism, stand outside in the sun and until you solve this problem, do not drink anything.
Time
Until you rig another suitable container and locate more water.
Questions
Some questions that need to be answered.
1/ How much water do you require per day?
2/ How can you repair the above kit?
3/ How can you re-supply your water supply?
4/ How long will it take?
5/ How do you know it is safe for consumption?
Hint
What would you pack to solve this problem that doesn't add that much extra weight or space? Is there anything you could use in your surrounding environment?
Do you have to do things in sequence? Can you do two things at once? What is the main priority? Storage or collection?
Q
* How much water do you think you will get?
* How do you clean the water enough for drinking?
* What in your kit will allow you to remove chance of bugs?
* How do you store the water?
Solutions
Here is one attempt to capture extra water. Not very successful but it proves a couple of points. The next method should be a bit more successful.
Rainfall
1/ It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
2/ You have what in your kit to capture and store water for a passive capture system? How do you ensure the water stays put? You scavenge a few items to hold a piece of kit in place
3/ You start to capture fallen rain and notice particle matter also being collected.
4/ As you capture the water, you realise you have to carry it. How do you jury rig a new water container?
5/ After all your hard work collecting the water, you realise it has contaminants. How do you get rid of them? Even though the water is rainwater, what out of your kit might you use to insure against potential bugs?
6/ This is all you have. You might go through one litre in two hours of movement. Up hill more. Clearly this is not enough. To be continued.
7/ A measly 100ml was captured. Using a Krama or Shemagh run the water through to filter the particulates a couple of times. What in your kit will allow you to further filter the water before you drink the water?
Q.
* What are some other methods to capture water?
* How are you going to cary your full 6 litres you need for tomorrow?
* What in your kit can you use to filter the water?