People have been sharing the survival tips that actually saved their life – 17 pieces of advice that could actually save your bacon
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‘Saw a news article about What 3 Words and thought it sounded really useful so told my kids to make sure they had the app on their phones in case they ever needed me to pick them up and they didn’t know where they were. Fell over and broke my ankle and had to use it to help the ambulance located me.
‘Rang my daughter to let her know what was going on and the first thing she said was “What’s your 3 Words?” – not exactly saved my life but certainly saved time when I was sat in the snow waiting for help.’
-Jynxmajik
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‘Start doing the survival skills before you’re in a survival situation – have been in several situations where things started turning bad and it is critically important that you do things like keep dry, stay warm enough, not get too far out, etc -before- it becomes lifesaving to do so.’
-Pays_in_snakes
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‘Stay calm. One time, I stupidly decided to go for a hike later in the day and ended up breaking my phone, no flashlight. It got pitch black in the forest really fast, and I got completely lost off the trail. I felt myself starting to panic, so I sat down for a few minutes, collected myself, and finally ended back on the main trail and back to my car.
‘If I had panicked, I probably would have spent all my energy hiking in the wrong direction and broken an ankle in my madness. The main thing in any emergency is to do everything you can to keep yourself calm.’
-blazingmonk
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‘Self-heimlich. I choked on food while driving in a busy street, didn’t breathe for over a minute because it was standstill traffic and I was in the middle lane.
‘Ended up cutting people off at the slightest sight of room, put my car in the ditch and 8th grade home ec came to mind as I hemilched myself on the spoiler of my car. Cracked a rip, spit the food out and cried for 10 mins because my vision started to go black.’
-Gaberino_
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‘Knew nothing about it took a scuba diving certification class during grad school, I was paired with a strangely nervous guy, the rest were couples. He had to retake the pool test a few times. On the first open water dive day, we swam out in pairs as a group with wetsuits, flippers, maybe bc and weight belt. Half way out, and in mild surf, my designated dive buddy had a full panic nutty after swallowing some water and tried to climb on top of me.
‘Had long ago been a Boy Scout and took the lifeguard merit badge where they described this exact scenario and what to do. I gulped air, dove down so he’d let go of me and swam up behind his panicked ass, put him in a light headlock as I recalled taking for that ancient merit badge test and swam us both into shore like that.
‘The dive master was apoplectic screaming at us swimming away from the rest of his group and turned everyone around and brought the entire group back to shore. He was pissed until he understood what had happened. They expelled him, and the dive master was my diving buddy for the rest of the sessions and final dive with full gear.’
-Jayches
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‘Always wear shoes you can run in’
-ninja_chief
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‘“STOP THE CAR, IM GOING TO VOMIT”
‘I used this twice. Once with a friend who was driving super SUPER high and I had no clue (she actually crashed her car 2 days later) and once with a guy who wasn’t taking no for an answer. He stopped and I booked it.
‘If you’re freaked and need to get out of a car, and if the person is not listening and stopping, say you’re going to be sick.’
-Ieatcrunchybees
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‘Not quite life saving, but it sure felt like it at the time:
‘I didn’t realize I had heat exhaustion and got on a roller coaster. When my vision started going gray at the edges I remembered the Mythbusters Blue Angels episode where they talk about the full-body-muscle-clench thing they have pilots do to counteract the G forces pulling blood away from your brain. I did those clenches for the rest of the ride and managed to avoid passing out, got off the ride and toddled off to a sheltered area to drink some water and cool off.
‘Lessons about my heat tolerance were learned that day, but the pre-existing lesson about Hook Maneuvers meant I got to learn them while conscious and in private instead of from an impatient EMT after they revived me.’
-Reasonable_Cranberry
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