Free Survival Videos Online from the FAA and other

Posted by: rafowell

Free Survival Videos Online from the FAA and other - 02/20/10 10:31 PM

There are quite a few survival videos online.

Here are some of the more extensive collections I've found, from:

- The FAA: 8 topics, 2.8 hours worth
- Tony Nester: 12 topics: 32 minutes worth
- Andrew Price: 42+ topics: > 1 hour worth
- Karl Jensen: 15 topics:
- Peter Kummerfeldt: 1 topic: 5.5 minutes
- Various HowTo videos:

(1) FAA Survival Video Page and Contents (8 videos)

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/med_pilots/aircrew_videos/

The topics covered are:

* Cold Land Survival (WMV, 20:42 min)
* Hot Land Survival (WMV, 24:26 min)
* Survival Kits: Rafts and Accessories (WMV, 15:13 min)
* Survival Medicine (WMV, 23:14 min)
* Surviving on Open Water (WMV, 25:22 min)
* Survival Signaling (WMV, 15:52 min)
* The Will To Survive (WMV, 17:44 min)
* Tropical Survival (WMV, 11:31 min)

(2) Tony Nester: Survival Skills 101

(Tony wrote: Practical Survival Tips, Tricks, & Skills and has taught survival skills for 20 years)

http://outsideonline.com/culture/how-to-videos-sp.html?vid=60923787-f25b-43b7-8a60-0c7e2e6b08bb

(once you start one of these videos, they chain from one to the next automatically. Each has the same stock 20 second intro, but there's about 32 minutes of unique material)

* Fire Starters 3:33
* Building a Fire 3:14
* Flint and Steel 3:11
* Primitive Fire 3:58
* Extinguishing Fire 2:04
* Carving Food Paddles 2:31
* Water 3:24
* Signal Mirror 2:41
* Signaling without a Mirror 2:01
* Edible Plants 2:25
* Tarp Shelter 3:32
* Paiute Deadfall Traps 2:50

(3) Andrew Price: "A-Z bushcraft"

An Australian series with topics literally from A-Z:
too many for me to list - just over your mouse
over the letters on the menu bar to see the list.

I'll give the link to the one that covers signaling.
Note that Australian conventions for mobile phone
emergency numbers, and the number of blasts that
signify "help!" are different than American:

http://www.azbushcraft.com/index.php/h/help-series-1

(4) Karl Jensen: Hiking Survival Tips & Techniques: Video Series
(Karl is young, but has 50 hiking videos on eHow)

http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_4538_hiking-survival-tips-techniques.html

1. How to Make a Hiking Survival Kit
2. How to Make a Medical Kit for Hiking
3. How to Build a Camp Fire
4. How to Find Materials for a Camp Fire
5. What to Do when you Get Lost Hiking
6. Finding your Way back when Lost Hiking
7. How to Find Shelter when Hiking
8. How to Build a Shelter when Hiking
9. How to Avoid Bad Weather when Hiking
10. How to Not Get Lost when Hiking
12. How to Stabilize Hiking Injuries
13. How to Avoid Dangerous Plants when Hiking
14. Avoiding & Treating Hypothermia
15. How to Send Help Signals when Hiking

(5) Peter Kummerfeldt

Here's a video from retired Air Force Academy survival training director Peter Kummerfeldt lectures/demonstrates signal mirrors
for 4:34 of this 5:28 long video clip online:

Raw video: Signaling : News : KXRM FOX 21
http://www.coloradoconnection.com/news/video.aspx?id=374547

(6) A number of amateur videos - check the linked ones.
Various HowTo videos
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-survival-whistle-from-tin-can-192109/



Posted by: buckeye

Re: Free Survival Videos Online from the FAA and other - 02/21/10 02:30 AM

Thanks,

I liked the tin can whistle.


buckeye