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Wilderness Survival and Awareness - Special Promo Price!
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Wilderness Survival and Awareness - Special Promo Price!

Learn essential survival skills: from fire building and shelters, to trapping/fishing and surviving an animal attack
4.6 (34 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
432 students enrolled
Created by Jeremy White
Last updated 9/2018
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This course includes
  • 1.5 hours on-demand video
  • 2 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of Completion
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What you'll learn
  • Learn the essential survival items to always carry with you
  • How to purify water and find food (edibles and trap animals)
  • How to make a survival shelter
  • The best way to build a fire
  • Basic First Aid skills
  • Navigate with a map/compass and sun/moon/etc.
  • Proper clothing to wear
  • Key survival knots to know
  • How to survive an animal attack
  • Learn the basics of wilderness survival
Requirements
  • Have access to a computer or mobile device to view materials
  • Practice the skills you learn, 'practice makes perfect'
Description

This course teaches essential survival skills, what you need to know to make it out alive in a survival scenario. If you're new to wilderness survival, this is the course for you. Emergency situations happen all the time and this course will teach you ways to handle them, such as securing drinking water or treating injuries. 

This course will prepare you for a variety of survival situations and give you the know-how on what to do. You will learn: how to build a fire (and use as a signal fire), finding and purifying water, how to properly dress to stay warm in cold environments, making shelter, surviving animal attacks, how to trap and fish for food and even how to survive a natural disaster.

Lectures are a variety of slides, pictures, and video demonstrations. Also this course will be updated periodically with new material for all students. 

You will learn what to do in the event you are stuck in a emergency situation. These skills can also be applied to many areas of life such as on your next family camping trip. This course will prepare you for the unknown and surviving through it!

LAST UPDATED: April 2017

Who this course is for:
  • All ages. Those who realize they need to be ready to survive
  • This is a beginner course for those who are new to wilderness survival
Course content
Expand all 25 lectures 01:40:28
+ – The Art of Survivial
23 lectures 01:37:22

See if you could survive a survival scenario. Here's a glimpse into what you will learn through this course

Intro - Could you survive?
Preview 06:40

Learn how to keep warm. Various clothing materials to use and how to dress to protect yourself from the cold

Clothing - how to stay warm
02:44

Learn the steps to building a fire, building a signal fire and proper way to extinguish a fire

Fire Building - How to and types of fires to build
04:29

Here I'll show you how to build your fire

Fire Building - Demo
07:01

Building a signal fire

Signal Fire - Demo
Preview 01:13

Learn how to properly extinguish a fire so you don't walk away and the fire you 'put out' keeps burning

Extinguishing your fire - Demo
01:39
Alternative fire making skill - Battery
02:49

Learn some essential knots to use not only in survival but in many scenarios in life

Knots to know
02:18
Knots 1 - Demo
04:22
Knots 2 - Demo
03:05

Learn how to build various kinds of shelters and how to use your environment to your advantage

Shelters
03:26

Here we cover different ways to purify water and ways to collect it. From boiling, solar stills, dug out holes, etc.

Finding and purifying water
05:54
Water Purification - Demo
Preview 01:40
How to make your personal Survival Kit
03:16

In this section we cover a variety of comment injuries and how to treat them. Injuries like: bee stings, cuts, broken bones, slings, splints, hypothermia, heat stroke, etc.

First Aid skills - know how to treat most common injuries
06:03

Learn how to navigate using a map, compass and your environment. Learn how to find north using the sun, stars, moss on trees, etc.

Navigation - map, compass, and other means to navigate
Preview 04:48
Using a compass - Demo
05:01
How to use a map and compass - Demo
04:30

Here we go over different ways to trap food and catch fish.

Trapping and Fishing - know how to catch game
06:30

Learn how to find out if plants are edible with the 'Universal Edibility Test'. Know key plants to look for and stay away from

Finding Edible Plants with the 'Universal Edibility Test'
05:10

Know what's going on around you... Learn to think like Jason Bourne and be prepared to respond

Situational Awareness - Think like Jason Bourne
03:22

Learn what to do if attacked by an animal. This section covers surviving animal attacks like: bear attack, wolves, shark attack, moose, and others

Surviving an Animal Attack
05:55

Know what to do to survival a disaster. What if the power goes out and a raging storm is approach? What do you do in an earthquake? What about a drought? We cover these in this section

Survive a Distaster - What to do...
05:27

You may print or scroll through the slides but make sure to have a paper and pencil to write down your answers. Once you've completed the quiz, open the answer sheet to see how you did. Have fun!

The Survival Quiz - Test your skills...