Experience exists in the sea

GROWTH WITH CURRENT INFORMATION IS VERY fast, ships in distress ALWAYS RECEIVE TIMELY ... BUT NOT WITHOUT RISK!
ACCIDENTS AT SEA
On your voyage, whether large or small vessels, may also occur the accidents such as the two ships crashed into each other, touch the reef, and on ice (typical case of the Titanic), having storm damage on ship ... If you entered a combat zone may be sunk, hit by torpedoes ... And the consequences can lead boat was capsized.When incidents occur for any reason, then:- Immediately signaled (by any means whatever) for emergency power with International SOS code.- Try to slow the sinking of the vessel by closing the door to the sea, the air vents and exhaust ... Take advantage of the full capacity water pumps. To extend the standby time relief.- If the vessel is large, relatively slow time sink. You need to inform all passengers carrying lifebelts prepared to leave the ship. Lower down the lifeboat. Priority for children, women and the elderly. Do not panic.- If the vessel is not damaged, try to run on the mainland or the nearest island, as close as possible.JUMP IN THE WATER
If the cold season (or are in cold waters), before jumping into the water, should wear more clothes (if any waterproof clothing as possible), a hat, bring socks and of course is to provide lifeline students.When jumping into water, vertical jump, feet first, legs closed, eyes forward, hands arms around his chest, fell on lifebelts. Do not jump down as plug-in pool. Nose to prevent choking water.If possible, you should choose the direction the wind blows the wind to avoid bumping into the boat.If a vessel, after the water, should leave immediately broadside. Because the ship sinks, will form a very strong swirl flow, pulling in all the objects nearby.After the water, people should gather together to be able to rely on each other, help and encourage each other ... And best of all the rescue teams will be highly visible and easy to help you. Divide the piece of wood or other floating objects floating on the water to increase its strength well.
USE buoy
When an accident at sea, need to jump into the water to escape it whether you are a beat length swimmers, also need to bring a lifeline to maintain their strength and prolonged survival time on the water.Life buoy with a variety of different types: a type blower in mouth, with little use of compressed (just snatch up key free compressed air is inflated buoys), has a type of the material itself it has a certain force emerged.When encountering a dangerous situation, immediately notify everyone on board knows to bring lifeline. For the buoyancy floats are high for children, women and the elderly. Help them bring floats, tie, tuck button, buckle, rough guide ... Those who swim should use floats support, but low power floating, but convenient to manipulate while swimming.If lack of lifebelts, who know how to swim should find or make for themselves a lifeline by finding empty cardboard boxes, empty can, nylon bags, foam materials, light and high buoyancy ... ties used together. It can blow many small nylon bag, for the two columns and then grabbed the pants. When using this type of buoy, not jumped into the water because the dam will break the power and air bags, floats will take effect.(Please refer to the "MAKE FRIENDS SIMPLE)
USE Boat & life rafts
When the accident occurred at sea, boats or life rafts as the best means for us to escape. But to be safe and highly effective, you need to know some things:- If the lifeboat is made of wood or fiberglass, when used, must be released slowly into the sea. If you should drop by a crane for a few children or weak women to sit on and control the canoe down slowly (these people can not jump straight into the sea).- If boats or life rafts are made of rubber blower (usually compressed air) may be thrown straight into the sea. But before you throw, need a long rope to the boat slip friends precautions when thrown into water, because the wind was light so easy to lapse.- Or the assistant captains, sailors ... should be prepared for each boat or life rafts some food, water and living equipment such as weapons, flashlight, fire flares, reflective glass, color posters, knives, paddles, emergency medicines. .. and a long string column after boat or life rafts, to miss someone fell into the water, they can stick to it so we pulled up.- After defeating boats or life rafts into the water, they need to send two healthy, good swimming, a climbing friends and friends around a pool to help others climb.- If more number of people are loads of boats or life rafts good swimmers should wear a life buoy and swim under the boat, if they stick slightly in chronic fatigue canoe.- After a boat, absolutely follow the guidance of the crew, where they sit there, not pushing, running back and forth, leaning out canoes alongside ...
- If before, the ship was promptly signaled for help, then the rescue teams will come and they will hunt priority areas first accident, so after taking canoe, kayak you should not go too flicker but should drop away around the accident area, unless you know the direction to the mainland or islands or see the lights (for night).- Appointment of alternate water slapped out of lifeboats.- Cut appoint not always observed on the sea and, if the sight of the plane, or boat, immediately signaled for help. If the sun is good, mirror or a piece of polished metal is the most effective (see CONTACT THE PHI), if not available, use smoke, color, fabrics, bright colors ... attract their attention. Can be used at night fireworks light the fire or fire.- The most important thing is to know how to unite, encourage, comfort and attention to help each other. If so, then you can overcome all hardships to survive together.
Swim to shore
If the directions or you can see the shore and the situation likely or forced to swim to shore, you go:- Try to find a buoy or floating object to cling to.- Take advantage of the wind or the flow of the ocean.- Use of soft comfortable breaststroke to save energy.If that is the wave normal.- Swim behind the waves.- When the waves break, if necessary, to dive through.If you have big waves.- Swim between the two waves.- Try to swim close waves.- If from sea waves advance into close (behind you), let's dive a little hold over from the then pending between the two waves emerge and swim to. If not, when the waves lapping at the back of you, will make you somersault.
Float
In order to conserve energy while swimming, relaxing you to know the rest by floating. Everyone of us can float, even those who could not swim, because it does not require health and exercise more.In calm waters, you can drop back slightly to rest and help you gain more strength or energy. But if in the ocean currents or big waves in the ocean, you can not drop back which can only swim float by standing quietly.The floating when you need a boat capsized in the dark, unable to swim to shore orientation or floating to rest your rehabilitation after a long swim. Float also help you conserve energy to be able to stay long under water while waiting for people to save or improve the situation.
It is easier to float if you have a buoy or other equipment, materials, floating ... Otherwise, you can use their pants to make a temporary pontoon (as shown) to break.
The decrease in heatYou can only stay long in the water if the water temperature of not less than 70oF, which is equivalent to 21.5 ° C, but if the temperature is below 68oF (# 20 ° C) will lead to hypothermia very dangerous if the body can not be protection. If there are clothes, the symptoms will appear after 8 hours in the country, without clothes, just after 4 hours. If the temperature down to 57oF (15oC #), the survival time not exceeding 2 hours.When you are in cold water, keep your head well above water, trying to protect the neck, chest, armpits, groin (part of the body are susceptible to the cold intrusion) by thick clothing. If there is only one of their knees up, folded both arms in front and motionless body to retain body heat. If there are 2-3 people, let's embrace the bitter cold (of course you need floats or equipment as well).
EXIST IN FRIEND
Can be caused by shipwreck, by accident, by plane to an emergency landing into the sea or for a reason that you are drifting at sea with a raft, then ask you follow these instructions the following:- Fasten the items that you have on friends, to avoid making waves or flip down lost friends.- Keep dry clothes, socks and gloves, covering all the places where the body is exposed to sunlight, if possible, because the heat of the sun can burn your skin blistering.- Dry clothes is essential to help us against the cold, especially at night.- Take advantage of shade sails or other materials to cover the sun, trying to minimize exposure to sunlight, since it is easy to dehydrate your body.- Inventory all food and water and keeping a safe and cool, dietary restriction in the first 24 hours.- You can be at sea for several days, so the need to conserve energy, avoid these activities do sweat and energy consumption.- Prepare a sign of things to do for the plane, or boat (as mentioned previously).
MOVE WITH FRIENDS (OR lifeboats)
When traveling with friends, you need to choose one of two methods move: Either the downwind, or be relied on ocean currents.Wind and ocean circulation rarely move in the same direction, usually a forward and a gain. You need to have some knowledge of wind and ocean circulation, the location (relative) of yourself, you need to know direction, wind or ocean that will take you anywhere.
Application of ocean currentsA raft sails must not be dominated by the tides, so you have to know how to use it so it helps you in the voyage.To use ocean currents, it is common to use a thick cloth bag called "sail bucket" or "neo bucket" (sea anchor) to drop into the water, the water flow will cause the bucket and push them apart accompanied by a raft. When water flows up, drag friends to go too fast, people deflate "bucket sails" again. As weak as water flows slowly or real friends, people expanding the "sail bucket" out.
If no "sad bucket", you can also use the ocean currents by making friends is partially submerged in water (as steam blow down if the friends of rubber), the column for some objects sink in water to withstand the impact of ocean currents more. If lucky, the flow will take you through the maritime routes of your boat or bring ashore.
The ocean currents:As the water exchange between the sea and other sea, forming the flow circulation in the sea as rivers. The tides vary by season and each different waters. Below is a diagram of the currents in the South China Sea.
Application of windThe wind was a companion of the ancient mariners, but if we do not master the rules of the wind, instead of leading us into the land, the wind also takes us further away.South China Sea, fills our country in Southeast Asia monsoons with two major wind: northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon.Intensity, two types of wind changed a lot in the transition months (April and September, October) the wind is not stable.Northeast monsoon activity lasted from October to April next year.Southwest monsoon lasts from May to October and by the ocean originated in this period should rains.
For maximum use of wind:- Do not use "sail dandruff"- Blow inflated real friends (if they are rubber friends) make friends as well as high light as possible.- "Passengers" sitting very high on the friends, the body can be inspired to wind up.- Set sail (or other materials used to catch the wind like sails). It is also used as animal signs for other vessels easily seen.Where you are in a difficult position, friends can not rely in the wind or ocean currents to move, try to preserve and limited food rations and drinking water to sustain life as long as possible.
Catching up on FRIENDS
During the lifetime of friends, whether or not you have food, you also need to know some methods of fishing for more fresh food and supplement their food supply as much as possible .
FishingIf you only have hooks but no bait, you can hook one or more columns at different depths, gently pull back to the friends. The fish are curious or friends to stay under the pool can hit hooks and stick (this is often the case when we go fishing, sometimes you stick with the hips). When the first fish caught, you get bowel disemboweling hooks to hook into the bait.
The tools and other fishing methods:No hooks, you can use knives, sticks, oars, forks, noose ... even bare hands; for cutting, stabbing, beating, strangle, shoot ... fish or other marine life near the surface hovering around friends.

COLORS OF THE SEA
When traveling on the sea, we also need to know a number of issues and phenomena related to our survival, which is also the color of the sea for us more important information. Seawater usually has two main colors: Luc and Green.Clerk: When the number of microbial organisms and many, low salinity.Green: When microbial organisms and small, high salinity.Chromaticity of the sea (and green) will depend on:- Sunlight and depth of the sea (as far as dark).- The difference in salinity and the number of organisms of the flow (eg the Gulf Stream and Labrador in the North Atlantic) also changes the color of the sea.- The areas of coral reefs often yellowish.- The color of the sea when the weather is not exactly bad or murky.
APPROXIMATE DISTANCE
At sea, the target distance used to be disturbed by a multitude of water vapor and droplets forming mist snow or fog, ... so as to estimate the distance at sea, often dishonest.Many of you see the goal seems closer than it really is because:- Light the sun behind you.- When you look through the water (light is refracted).- The air is so pure.Sometimes you see the goal seems more distant by the fact that:- Lack of light or by the fog.- Always looking for more than large waves, especially when the direct wave (perpendicular) to the observer.In the case of good weather, with the naked eye, you can see the images in the table below to estimate distances:- The distance of 50 meters: Foreseeing the eyes, nose or mouth of a person.- The distance of 100 meters: Two eyes only 2 points.- 200 meters distance: You can still see the face.- The distance of 500 meters: Also see the color of clothing, chess table semaphore and read the names of the average ship.- The distance of 800 meters: People like a little stick. Also read the table names of the big ship.- Distance 1500 meters: Also see the full ship.- Distance 3000 - 4000 meters: In the upper part of the ship- The distance 11-15 km: Only the chimney or mast.
Latitude by ESTIMATES ABOUT U.S.
When floating on the waters in the Northern Hemisphere, you can see the North Star to estimate we are at Latitude (North) does. Want to be like that, you get the Meridian and Horizon Road to form two sides of the right angle, crossing at ourselves. Horizon we get a point 0o and 90o Meditation is, if the North Star is located in many corners of the square, then we're right at that latitude on the ground (sea).In the figure, we see the North Star is at 45 ° (between Heaven and the horizon). Thus, we are at 45 ° North Latitude.Even if you do not have the "glass hexadecimal", you can also use the above method to estimate distances quite accurately by calculating the difference of the north star after each move the road. Every difference is equivalent to 60 miles (miles) or 90 km on the ground (sea).
ISLANDS IN MAY FIND
The cloud will make real our attention because it is standing still while clouds still moving around.Real clouds generally appear above the island (or hills or mountains on the island) is due to the winds carry more water vapor continuously blown into the island, when touched the island land mass in the high rises, cold air meet then condenses into clouds (cloud real estate is provided by continuous steam). The island is located below the horizon it is difficult to see.Once past the island, low wind and warm, can not form another cloud.

SEARCH BY LAND CHIM
The ancient mariners they went to sea without a map and marine areas, they are just based on experience, judgment and some tips. To find the direction of the land, they brought some birds live in the continent. When needed, they released the bird, if that land, the birds will fly towards it, if not, the birds will return to the boat.
Estimates DISTANCE BY LAND Seabirds
COAST TO TAKE ONLINE FRIENDS
In order for safe landing was close to shore friends, you go:- Try to find a hidden place onshore wind (or islands) to landing.- Do not sweep the opposite direction to the sun, light and reflection from the sea will make you dazzled, did not see the target, easy to get beat.- Select a swell little place (little white foam) will give you easy access to the beach and less energy consumption.- If you are forced to cross swell, go down the mast, tied to the tools, clothing, shoes, to minimize scratching or friction due to collisions can occur.- Use the oars or poles, sticks ... to check the depth, coral reefs ...- Drag the "sail bucket" up, especially when passing or when coral reefs were inshore.- Avoid areas with strong surf on the rocks or cliffs.- When friends prepare landing, you look straight forward, sat for it to be strong to withstand the single shock when friends ashore.- When friends just touch the ground, you just jump down, relied on friends to pull the waves on the shore.
HOW AN LOADERS ARE FRIENDS RUBBER an UPS
When a capsized rubber friends, without knowing how, alone and struggling you will hardly turn back because there is no world. You first tie a rope on one side of the line held alongside friends and swim to the other side remaining. Leo stood up straight on the redness, itching after pulling the rope straight. When friends turn back you will fall into the water, beware friends who strike.
If no "sad bucket", you can also use the ocean currents by making friends is partially submerged in water (as steam blow down if the friends of rubber), the column for some objects sink in water to withstand the impact of ocean currents more. If lucky, the flow will take you through the maritime routes of your boat or bring ashore.
The ocean currents:As the water exchange between the sea and other sea, forming the flow circulation in the sea as rivers. The tides vary by season and each different waters. Below is a diagram of the currents in the South China Sea.
Application of windThe wind was a companion of the ancient mariners, but if we do not master the rules of the wind, instead of leading us into the land, the wind also takes us further away.South China Sea, fills our country in Southeast Asia monsoons with two major wind: northeast monsoon and southwest monsoon.Intensity, two types of wind changed a lot in the transition months (April and September, October) the wind is not stable.Northeast monsoon activity lasted from October to April next year.Southwest monsoon lasts from May to October and by the ocean originated in this period should rains.
For maximum use of wind:- Do not use "sail dandruff"- Blow inflated real friends (if they are rubber friends) make friends as well as high light as possible.- "Passengers" sitting very high on the friends, the body can be inspired to wind up.- Set sail (or other materials used to catch the wind like sails). It is also used as animal signs for other vessels easily seen.Where you are in a difficult position, friends can not rely in the wind or ocean currents to move, try to preserve and limited food rations and drinking water to sustain life as long as possible.
Catching up on FRIENDS
During the lifetime of friends, whether or not you have food, you also need to know some methods of fishing for more fresh food and supplement their food supply as much as possible .
FishingIf you only have hooks but no bait, you can hook one or more columns at different depths, gently pull back to the friends. The fish are curious or friends to stay under the pool can hit hooks and stick (this is often the case when we go fishing, sometimes you stick with the hips). When the first fish caught, you get bowel disemboweling hooks to hook into the bait.
The tools and other fishing methods:No hooks, you can use knives, sticks, oars, forks, noose ... even bare hands; for cutting, stabbing, beating, strangle, shoot ... fish or other marine life near the surface hovering around friends.
Getting seabirds:You can start by hooking seabirds prey (small fish is best) into a hook (or a manufactured object such as a hook) mounted on a floating object, floating objects that connect to friends, the sea birds bite prey swooped down it will be sticky question. (See CREATE Hook).If there is a mild and slightly larger phytoplankton, (planks, empty barrels ...) the last column as your friends about 5-10 meters, a noose on it to connect with friends. The sea birds are very bold, find accommodation feet will respond to, you just snatch noose to grab.
You can also play dead lay motionless. These voracious birds will think it landed near you, just hand when suddenly grabbed. Note that the claws, wings, beak can cause injury to you. (This is the experience of a Hainanese fishermen floating on friends for nearly three months after the boat sank) (Please see also Hunting fishing).
Algae: As a supplementary source of vitamins are essential for our bodies. In the sea there are many types of algae, most are edible. However, you also need to know how to distinguish as well as processing. (See seaweed)
COLORS OF THE SEA
When traveling on the sea, we also need to know a number of issues and phenomena related to our survival, which is also the color of the sea for us more important information. Seawater usually has two main colors: Luc and Green.Clerk: When the number of microbial organisms and many, low salinity.Green: When microbial organisms and small, high salinity.Chromaticity of the sea (and green) will depend on:- Sunlight and depth of the sea (as far as dark).- The difference in salinity and the number of organisms of the flow (eg the Gulf Stream and Labrador in the North Atlantic) also changes the color of the sea.
- The areas of coral reefs often yellowish.- The color of the sea when the weather is not exactly bad or murky.
APPROXIMATE DISTANCE