How to Use Good Survival Tricks if Lost

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: How to find out how many hours of sunlight are left.

   Hold your hand horizontally so that your arm is parallel with the ground.
   
   Tuck in your thumb hold your hand at the bottom of the sun.
   
   Each hand width is APPROXIMATELY 1 hour of sunlight.
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   Step 2: How to find South.

   (you'll need an analog watch for this.) Point the hour hand at the sun.
   
   Halfway between the hour hand and the 12 mark on the watch is South.
   
   In daylight savings time, it's halfway between the hour hand and the 1 mark on the watch. , . . . _ _ _ . . .
   
   This means 3 short blasts or flashes, then 3 longer ones, then three shorter ones again.
   
   Wait three seconds before doing it again.
   
   It would sound like this:beep beep beep beeeep beeeep beeeep beep beep beep You will be answered in 3 blasts from a whistle or 3 flashes from a flashlight , It is recommended to make a 3 dot triangle of three fires.
   
   Make a relatively large fire, then put pine branches onto the fire, it will create thick smoke. ,,
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   Step 3: SOS in Morse Code (you can use this with a whistle

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   Step 4: or a flashlight.)

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   Step 5: Signal Fires These are fires which make a lot of smoke.

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   Step 6: Other distress signals Put anything of a bright color (preferably orange) in a 3 dot triangle

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   Step 7: Finding East and West during the night or day The sun rises in the East and sets in the West The moon also follows the same pattern as the sun and rises in the East and sets in the West.

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