Survival Card Packets

If you were to design a series of survival card packs of tips and hints, what categories would you include?

The idea is for packets of cards similar to the Brunton Pocket Survival kit.
http://www.equipped.org/brunton_kit.htm

3 or 4 thin plastic printed cards to a packet.

The cards fit into a plastic envelope that would in turn fit a credit card slot in a wallet.

I am not really looking for what exactly would go on each card but the general categories of each packet. Details will come later.

An Example would be a First Aid pack. The cards would list general first aid tips. Such as How to do CPR or pressure points chart to control bleeding ETC, ETC.

The idea of the cards would be to jump-start the brain in an emergency situation. Another use would be you are stranded with a group. You have the knowledge but can only be in one place at a time. The group is broken into small parties to perform different tasks for the group’s survival. Each task party could be given the packet that it covers.

While all the skills for the task could not be covered this beginner or basic information can get the jobs started.

So what areas should be considered?

Check BillVan's, now infamous, PSK Cheat Sheet

I think if you search around the forum we have touched bases on this subject before. My own opinion is; I would not encourage the use of these cards for First Aid. A quality First Aid course should be the first step, followed by study and practice. Too often people are willing to forego the training, if they think they can jump-start from a “reminder” card or cheat sheet. Like many things the more you practice, the more it will become second nature to you. In some true emergency situations, the ability to act through pure instinct via repetitive training is required for a successful outcome. Pete

Raspy
Campmoor has a printed set of cards they sell plastic conected by a rivit or something like that for around 5-6 bux.

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Raspy: These aren't suggestions for whole cards, but among the kind of info I think would be suitable...

- fishing knots (I tie them so rarely)
- formulae for common water treatments (how many tabs, minutes, etc.)
- watch and shadow methods for finding north

Also, don't forget that these cards may be all the first aid information your buddy or co-survivor has, so some kind of first aid pointers might be worth including.

I have known about the cheat sheet for years thanks anyway. Yes I know the cards at campmore. Yes the Brunton cards are limited. I thank you all for the suggestions.

But there seems to be some misunderstanding. What I am attempting is to develope a series of cheat sheets. to be printed up on cards and tucked into a case something simulaler to the Brunton cards. 3 or 4 to each slip case. Then these could be carried in a second wallet as a reference resource.

I have a series of catagories already planed. I am fleshing them out over time. What I am asking is what catagories you people think should be included.

I intend to then post asking for what might be included in each packet. One every few days. To try to get better dicussion I would hold my list for a couple of days. The post my list plus changes from the recommdations listed seperately.

Some of the catagories I have come up with already are .
First Aid
Fire making
Fishing
and more.

Hi Raspy,

I carry a card with different cliches in several languages which I probably need when I´m on travel.

Another idea could be a list of important phonenumbers, a wiring diagram of your car, some matrix for calculating, a foil-type-napier-slide-ruler, ...

Molf

I took a look at Bill's PSK Cheat Sheet, borrowed some from ETS with Doug’s permission, fired up PageMaker and made my own version since it seemed like a good idea. It covers what, to me, are the basics that I may need help remembering or that someone else may need if I can't communicate with them:
- STOP and the 6 priorities, Medical Care, Shelter, Fire, Signaling, Water and Food.
- Signaling, with mirror, whistle, smoke, ground-to-air.
- Water Treatment, with bleach, iodine, boiling and Potable Aqua.
- Finding Water, Water Collection, with transpiration bag or solar still.
- Fire Starting, location, kinds of tinder, etc.
- Fishing Knots, because I don't fish and would never remember them.
- Finding North, with wristwatch, shadow stick and the North Star.
Yes, it’s minimalist, but it has the basics, albeit in an abbreviated form. I left of first aid for several reasons: space (bulk), but mainly because brevity in first aid instructions can do more harm than good, in my opinion.
Like Bill’s sheet, I made a .pdf of mine so it can be reproduced, and I’m always tinkering with it!

Broad categories -

Medical

Fire

Shelter

Water

Orienteering

Food

I wouuld tink that you could put together a full four cards on any of these topics. That adds up to 24 cards of info.

I'm not too sure I would want to find the room to carry a deck of cards for reminders in my pockets. I have and carry the brunton cards with fresnel lens and floating compass. I also carry a printed / laminated (and customized) version of BillVann's cheatsheet in my PSK. Much more than that and I will be out of pocket space. An entire extra wallet of cards for reminders would displace my inspirational mini-book (currently "The Art Of War" by Sun Tsu)

Molf ,
Was ist ein slide rule? Das ist zu alt fur mich. <img src="images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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