In addition to the desert, to survive in any other places you may encounter obstacles of water may be a river, a stream, lake, swamp, quicksand, wetland, or thick moss marsh.
Whatever it is, you need to know how to ride out.
The river
A river or a stream may be very narrow, also may be very wide;
May be shallow or deep;
May be slowly, also may be the jet stream;
May be covered with snow, the ice.
You need to do the first step is to choose a basic security across the river.
So looking for a high first, from the above you can see the whole of the river, and then find across sites.
If there is no high, then climbed to the tree.
Carefully check river, look have the following situation:
Have low into several channel water.
Usually have two or three narrow waterways to much easier than a wide river.
Low across the barrier, it may hinder you travel, can choose the safest, most easily travel sites.
Low to have deep, cascade of water flow is urgent, have the deep water channel.
Never from these sites or its near across the river.
Where is there a rock, away from here.
Might make you serious injury against the rock.
However, sporadic, partition the water stone may help you.
Have low shallow water or sand.
If possible, choose shallow or locations across the river in the upper bar, so even if you stumble, the water will be rushed to the shallow water or sand.
Low in the river have a flow toward the downstream flow.
Across the river, along with the flow direction of a 45-degree Angle.
If you can stand, the depth of the river or stream is the commonest.
In fact, deep water usually flows more slowly, so than shallow water flow is urgent.
You can be in after crossing the river to dry clothes, or if you are willing, you can do a raft, put the clothes and equipment on the raft across the river.
The jet stream
A deep jet does not look so dangerous.
If swim across the river, along the direction of the water to swim, never upstream, it is to keep the body level, it will reduce your risk of being currents into the water.
A shallow rapids, back down, feet forward, his hands on your hips quick pat the surface in order to increase buoyancy, so as to avoid the underwater stones.
Raise the feet, to avoid being stone bruises or hit the rocks.
Too deep rapids, abdomen is down, head forward, try to keep body and riparian right Angle.
Breathing between the crest.
To avoid backflow and water pool, because there often have dangerous swirls.
Avoid falls down the surface of the bubble, there is almost no buoyancy.
If you are a jet or dangerous river, took off his pants and underwear, reduce the friction of water on your legs.
But to dress shoes, to protect the foot and ankle from rock damage, and can make you base on more steadily.
Trousers and some other important items closely tied to the top of the bag, so, if you had to give up a backpack,
All your items together.
Looking for a big backpack is much easier than find some trivial things.
Will his knapsack on his shoulders, once based on instability, can loosen the backpack right away.
If you cannot quickly took off his backpack, it is likely to be even the strongest swimmer into the water.
Find a diameter of about 5 inches (12 centimeters) long, about 7 to 8 feet (2 ~ 2.4 meters) of the rod, are strong enough to use the stick to help you across the river.
Hang on to pole, insert it into you in the upstream of the water, it can cut off water.
Each foot to step on, when the pole shift forward, insert location than the location of the last of the downstream, but still want to be in your top.
Keep going, below the foot on the pole.
Keep the rod tilt, water can make the pole on your shoulder.
If you have companions, and across the river with a partner.
To ensure that everyone has put on the bags and clothes as said it is ready.
Holding pole at the end of the heaviest man, standing in the position of the downstream, the lightest weight of the man holding the front end of the pole, standing in the position of the upstream.
The man in this way, the upstream will block the water flow, and the people through the vortex caused by in front of the person also is relatively easy.
If the upstream based on instability, other people will also be able to stand firm, until that person back on.
No matter for what kind of water, and water flow toward the downstream when starting a 45-degree Angle.
That make people can’t stand the strong currents, in this way can usually in the past.
Don’t worry about the weight of the bag, because the weight will help you across the river, rather than hinder you across the river, just make sure when it is necessary to quickly off his backpack.
raft
If you have a companion, and each of you has a poncho, then you can do a poncho raft irrigation raft or Australia.
Use the raft, you can bring your equipment safety river water flow is not too urgent.
Pouring raft.
Pouring raft if done well, can withstand a weight of 250 pounds (113 kg).
Make the raft need poncho, fresh tender shrubs, two small tree, a rope or a cane.
Production steps are as follows:
Australian poncho raft.
If you don’t have enough time to collect shrubs to do raft, then you can do an Australian poncho raft.
Although the raft more waterproof than filling and rafts, but can only carry about 80 pounds (36 kg) of weight.
Make the raft needs two zhang yu.my put, two poles 4 feet (1.2 meters) long or branches, rope, cane, shoelaces, or other similar materials.
Steps are as follows:
Whether pouring raft or Australian poncho raft, will have to be careful, when they brought out the do not Pierce or torn poncho.
Before you cross the river to test it rafts on the water for a few minutes, make sure that it is able to float.
If the water is too deep to wade through, the swimming will be raft in front of you, pushing it.
Before crossing the water to check the temperature of the water.
If the water temperature is extremely low, and no light can wade, so don’t try to wade, and to design other ways to cross the water.
For example, you can tear down a tree, stand on the river, a makeshift bridge.
Or you can do a raft is large enough, you can load and equipment.
But do you need an axe, a knife, a rope or a cane, and you need to be enough time.
The raft.
You can do with dry, upright tree log.
The poles and the poles in the region near the spruce is the best log rafting trip.
Rafting trip the simplest method is to use the ends of the bar will be a row of logs together tightly.
Floating device
If the water temperature is suitable for swimming, but you can’t swim, so can do a floating device to help you.
Floating device can be used to do things with —
Low trousers.
At the bottom knot, buckle on buttons.
Positioned waistband, swing in the air a few times to make trousers filled with air.
The waistband away immediately, take it into the water and the air from escaping.
Now you have a pair of “wings” to help you in the water floating across the river.
Note: a large rivers, the “water wings” need several times.
When the empty container.
Empty cans, gas canisters, or box tied together to do floaters.
But the floater can only be used in river flow slower.
Low plastic bags.
Will two or more plastic bags filled with air, then mouth up.
Low poncho.
Put some green plants in the poncho, then roll up poncho, the diameter of the coil to at least 8 inches (20 centimeters).
The cape tied at both ends.
You can tie it at the waist, also can be inclined back over his shoulder.
Low logs.
If you have, can use the stranded driftwood, or to find a log to do nearby floater.
Before you cross the water, however, be sure to test the logs can float, some trees, such as palm, even dry will sink into the water.
Low cattail plant.
Collection of cattail stem, and then put them into a bundle, diameter must be at least 10 inches (25 centimeters).
Cattail stem has many small nest can make full of air floating, until decay.
Before crossing the water test the cattail sheaf, ensure it can bear your weight.
Other water obstacles
You may encounter other water barrier is swamp, wetland, thick moss marsh, or quicksand.
Don’t walk in the past.
Stand up when trying to lift up your feet will only make you sinking deeper.
Try to circumvent these obstacles, if cannot bypass, you can use logs, branches and leaves on it, and then in the past.
Another way is to face down, get down, hands, swimming, or climb over.
It is important to ensure that the body level.
In the swamp areas that have plants usually hard enough, to support your weight, but in the open mud or water, there is usually no plants.
If you can swim up to the level of the ordinary, then swim or prostrate several kilometers there should be no problem.
Quicksand is a mixture of sand and water, will be moving sand.
Quicksand collapse easily because of external forces, it will be inhaled the things above and under.
Quicksand depth are different, and often local.
If you can’t say for sure whether a sand quicksand, throw a stone to the above, if it is shifting sand, stone will sink.
Despite the quicksand let a person more easily than mud and rotten soil cave in, you can still use the method of a swamp to quicksand: lie down, face down, arms stretched, to move slowly.
You can also in clothes manufacturing air pocket to increase buoyancy.
In the ankle will pant leg tightly, make the leg form air pocket.
Can also blow air into the collar, to form the shoulder bag.
Some waters may have an undercurrent or floating plants, makes you swim more difficult.
But if you can keep calm and not to tangle with the plants, so even if the plants are relatively dense, you can still swim through.
The more close to the surface, the better, in breaststroke, leg and hand movements.
Through the plants around you, they are likely to cover you.
If for a backstroke, tired, or AngFu on the surface of the water, until the rest enough to continue to use breaststroke.
Mangrove wetland is another type of water barrier, off the coast of many occur in tropical regions.
Mangrove trees or shrubs, their roots are extending outward, long a lot of support, very dense.
Be mangrove wetland, such as tide, if you are in the land side, look for a narrow small forest, and then walk from here to the coast.
Or find flowing channel between the trees, follow the channel to the sea.
If you are near the sea side, along the streams to land or waterway.
Be careful of the crocodile.
The crocodile was found in shallow water area.
If found near a crocodile, leaving the surface of the water and climbed on mangrove roots.
If you want to by a large area of wetland, with raft is the best way.
