The outdoors can be a wonderfully rejuvenating place. Seeing places and things never seen before, savouring the wonders Mother Nature has bestowed, enjoying the scenery of green meadows or snow capped peaks on a mountain range, gushing waterfalls, the serene silence of gurgling waters of mountain streams, all wonderfully therapeutic.

However, the outdoors can also be a very unforgiving place. What a part time adventurer does not realise is that the wilderness, the outdoors, the outback, the bush, the mountain, the desert, is a whole different place from what s/he is used to back in the city. The terrain is alien, the comforts that are taken for granted are missing, and there are immense ways to get injured or get lost and find oneself in a survival situation, an entirely unknown crisis.

An analysis of cases among the majority of the people who find themselves in survival situations, brings up a few common elements between them. Watch the video below to find out what they are.

When we talk about getting into survival situations we generally talk about the wilderness, like in the video above. But you can get into survival situations even in big cities, in the middle of people. Natural and man made disasters, for instance. A flood can sweep your home away, an earthquake can flatten a city, a terrorist attack can make you wish you knew about how to control major arterial bleeding, a loved one could be having a heart attack and your knowing how to administer CPR can save his or her life.

Survival is not just for the outdoors, it can rear its ugly head anywhere. It is important to be prepared, equipped and trained for survival situations of all kinds.

And that is what we at the OTA Survival School try and do. The more you carry in your head, the less you will need to carry on your back. Being prepared is the first defense in a survival situation.

Go through this website. We hope we will be able to give you some tips, tricks and traps on survival. Nonetheless, practice makes perfect and you will be able to hone your knowledge and your skills once you join an OTA Survival School course.