Rescue
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Bowline
Knots and Rope
The loop that will not slip and still unties after it has been loaded.
Calling for help on a phone
Signals and Rescue
Getting a call through from the woods, what to tell the 911 operator, and keeping the phone alive until they reach you.
Ground to air signals
Signals and Rescue
Big shapes on open ground that a plane or helicopter can read, and the few codes worth knowing.
Paddling a kayak
Kayak and Canoe
The strokes, the brace and the rescues that let you take a kayak along the shore and get back in when it goes over.
Signal fires and smoke
Signals and Rescue
A fire laid ready in the open, lit the moment you hear an aircraft: smoke by day, flame by night.