The Effects of Drowning
It is one of our most primitive but visceral fears; thrashing in the deep, far below the water’s surface, lungs burning for oxygen, arms straining toward the ev...
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Pucker Up: 10 Survival Uses for Lip Balm
They’re cheap, easy to carry, and extremely useful. When it comes to practical utility, lip balm has as many surprising uses as tampons.
If you don’t have a ...
An Ounce of Prevention: Avoiding Wildfires
The last thing you need in a bug-out situation—or at home—is an out-of-control fire, and you’d be surprised how easily that could happen.
Fires can be highly...
Smoke ‘Em: 6 Steps to Preserve Meat Through Smoking
Smoking, like canning and brining, is one of the methods to preserve meat that people used before the refrigerator was invented. Smoking meat for preservation n...
Swat Wars: The Mosquito Menace
Each downpour brings with it the risk of disease. Respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses are common during and after hurricanes, aside from injuries and dea...
Flesh-Eating Bacteria: 5 Things You Need to Do to Protect Yourself from Vibrio
In the summer of 2018, a South Texas man died after wade fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. A fatality was also recorded in Virginia and a man from New Jersey was l...
DIY Doomsday Arsenal: 3D-Printed Guns
Today's technological advances are nothing short of amazing, especially in the fast-growing field of 3D-printing. Since it became more popular and relatively mo...
Earthquake Survival: Preparation and Training
Earthquakes are not predictable. There are general impressions and cautions and wellknown fault lines, but no scientist will be able to predict that an earthqua...
Life-Saving Liquid: Potable Water Planning
You might take it for granted now. But having enough clean water for drinking, cooking and hygiene during a disaster can be a multi-faceted problem.
Commerc...
Keeping an Eye Out: Preparing for a Hurricane
Aside from strong winds, heavy rainfall and flooding, hurricanes are also synonymous with wide-spread property damage, injuries and fatalities. Keeping an eye o...