The traditional Australian Bushcraft and Survival Skills are so important, so easily learned and yet so often neglected by modern outdoor adventurers! The knowledge and experience you need to travel, live comfortably and survive in the bush or mountains can be readily gained by participating in these Survival and Navigation Courses. Our expert Survival Instructors bring experience from a broad range of backgrounds including those of Adventure Racers, Military Survival Specialists and “Extreme” Expedition Leaders.

| SURVIVAL & NAVIGATION | BUSH SURVIVAL COURSE |
| WILDERNESS NAVIGATION COURSE |

BUSH SURVIVAL COURSE

This course is designed to give you the essential skills in Bush Survival and Wilderness Travel. This two-day course is run at our Bush Survival Basecamp and will also feature discussion and lectures on various survival topics. As with all ASM courses, we emphasise hands on approach when teaching survival skills, as a result there will be ample opportunity to actually practice the techniques. After this course you will have acquired a new skill set that will make you more self reliant and confident when travelling in the wilderness.

The subjects covered in the course include:

• Emergency Shelter Construction
• Survival Fire-lighting Skills
• Food and Water Procurement
• Emergency Signalling ß Survival Navigation
• Emergency First Aid and Survival Equipment Selection.

WANT MORE BUSH SURVIVAL & NAVIGATION COURSES?
Your light plane has crashed into dense bush 100kms from the nearest habitation; you are wet, cold and hungry. What do you do? We can tailor a private course to meet  your needs.

With some knowledge, basic skills and a little confidence in your own ability you can survive almost anywhere! This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and specialist skills required to survive in a variety of wilderness environments and emergency scenarios.

The course subjects that we cover include:

• Protection & Shelter, Emergency Shelter Construction, Types of Shelters, Keeping Warm and Dry, Shelter Location, Improvised Shelter Materials
• Survival First Aid, Priorities For Life, Treating Common Survival Illnesses & Conditions, Bush Remedies & Improvised Treatment, Hypothermia “The Silent Killer”, Survival First Aid Equipment
• Location & Signalling: Improvised Signalling Methods & Equipment, Signalling Aircraft, International Signal Code, Signal fires, Using Marker Panels, Flares and Mirrors
• Water Procurement: Solar Stills, Transpiration Method, Dew Collection, Wells, Natural Water Sources, Emergency Water Sterilising, Water From Plant Sources, Improvised Water Storage & Carrying Methods
• Food Procurement: Survival Hunting & Trapping, Use of Snares & Traps, Survival Fishing, Basic Tracking Skills, Edible Plant Life, Emergency Food Preparation and Improvised Cooking Methods
• Emergency Fire-lighting, Improvised Fire-lighting Methods, Use of Flint & Steel, Magnesium Fire-starter, Fire By Friction, Bow Drill, Fire Sticks & Other Improvised Methods
• Navigation: Use of Map & Compass, Wilderness Navigation, Improvised Navigation Aids, Navigating by Sun and Stars, Navigation Using Natural Features
• Survival Equipment & Clothing: Survival Kits, Signalling Equipment, Survival Knives, Dressing For Survival, Improvised Survival Aids.

4 day Comprehensive Bush Survival and Navigation course available on application

Dates & Fees

WILDERNESS NAVIGATION COURSE
One of the most essential skills required by any outdoor traveller be they Climber, Bushwalker or Skier is to know how to navigate with a map and compass!

Simply owning a map and compass is not a guarantee that you can safely find your way through the bush, maps and compasses are not good luck charms, but precision instruments, which require skill and good training to be effective. Our instructors are expert navigators and are highly qualified and experienced in teaching this essential outdoor skill.

On the second day of this course participants will get the opportunity to put all their newly learned skills to use on a navigation trek and orienteering exercise.

The subjects covered in this course include:

• Maps Types, Use in the Field, Features, Contours, Grid References,
• Compass Features, Types, General Usage, Field Bearings, Map Bearings, Resections, Marching on a Compass Bearing
• Route Planning, Route Selection, Route Cards, Time and Distance Estimation
• Emergency Navigation Techniques using the Sun and the Stars
• GPS Features, Operating Functions, Use and Limitations.

Dates & Fees

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The fee for all ASM Bushcraft, Survival & Navigation Courses includes: Transport, Qualified Instructors, Food, Instruction, Use of Survival, Bushcraft and Navigation Equipment, Course Notes and Course Certificates.