Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare resources for erection of survival shelter
- Identify potential threat to personal survival posed by the elements and use natural features to provide immediate protection.
- Optimise survival shelter’s siting for protection from the elements and to minimise hazards to the survivalist, taking advantage, where possible, of existing natural resources.
- Collect resources to construct survival shelter to maximise shelter strength and protection, while minimising physical effort.
- Construct survival shelter
- Construct traditional twoply string for use in binding and securing.
- Establish survival shelter’s framework, taking maximum advantage of the strength of natural junction points such as forks, by using and binding with improvised cordage.
- Protect survival shelter from wind and rain, using shingling (bark sections and large leaves) and thatching (bound grass and bundled grass) for roofing and siding.
- Prepare resources for erection of survival shelter
- Identify potential threat to personal survival posed by the elements and use natural features to provide immediate protection.
- Optimise survival shelter’s siting for protection from the elements and to minimise hazards to the survivalist, taking advantage, where possible, of existing natural resources.
- Collect resources to construct survival shelter to maximise shelter strength and protection, while minimising physical effort.
- Construct survival shelter
- Construct traditional twoply string for use in binding and securing.
- Establish survival shelter’s framework, taking maximum advantage of the strength of natural junction points such as forks, by using and binding with improvised cordage.
- Protect survival shelter from wind and rain, using shingling (bark sections and large leaves) and thatching (bound grass and bundled grass) for roofing and siding.