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Ray Mears tests his own courage as he takes part in the RAF's three-week survival course in Cornwall. He joins a team of 20 jet pilots, navigators and helicopter crew as they learn to survive at sea and on land.
RAF aircrew can find themselves in action almost anywhere in the world, flying over desert, sea, jungle, woodland or the Arctic. If they are shot down behind enemy lines, they have to be able to survive in every environment. "In a few seconds, a fighter pilot can be catapulted from their jet worth millions of pounds into a Stone Age situation where they're surviving hand to mouth," says Ray.
From learning to survive on water, the course moves to Dartmoor where Ray spends a week living rough in shelters, learning how to trap squirrels and birds, light fires and cook what he catches. It's wet and cold. When they go on the run for three days and nights, a hunter force is let loose to capture them.
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Ray Mears (born 1964) is a British author and TV presenter on the subject of bushcraft and survival techniques. He grew up in Southern England, and started tracking foxes at a young age. It was his Judo teacher who gave him the idea to learn survival skills. He has been teaching survival skills since 1983, when he founded the "Woodlore" School of Wilderness Bushcraft. His Outdoor Survival Handbook was published in 1990, and his first TV appearance was in 1993 in the BBC2 series Tracks.
His presentation style is often praised as authoritative but relaxed and friendly. His love of his subject and his sense of communion with nature are evident in his programmes, as is his respect for indigenous cultures. He has developed something of a cult following amongst students in the United Kingdom.
Ray Mears has become synonymous with survival and wilderness bushcraft through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, The Essential Guide to Rocks, and Extreme Survival. He spent his life leaning these skills and is a master of the subject.
Wanting to be able to sleep out on the trail and unable to afford camping equipment, he resorted to a Robinson Crusoe approach to solving the problem.
Digesting every scrap of information relating to survival that he could find in his local library, he soon began to re-learn skills that had not been employed on the North Downs for hundreds of years.
Since those early days Ray has expanded his horizons by travelling the world. He has won the friendship of many nations and been privileged to accompany many tribes while hunting, tracking and searching for wild plants and medicine.
In his early twenties Ray founded his company Woodlore, through which he trains both military and civilian audiences the skills of survival.
To piss in the soup, first if you are in a Country illegally, you are doing something against the law, be it a military ordered or not, you are responsible for your own actions and cannot be ordered to do something illegal. If you are at war, then this is a different matter. Survival skills are important, but most places are close to a road which means civilization. Halos from shopping malls, farm houses, and other light sources can be easily scene. Eating mussles can be VERY dangerous. First your lips get numb, then you die. Better to just turn yourself in to authorities and hope for the Consulate to get you free... Unless of course you are an American, then capture is surely going to lead to being tortured just like we do to prisoners.
By pukaman2000 1216934181 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethere was nothing extreme about what they were doing, i do this most weekends to me its the norm..walk across Dartmoor in the dark,build a fire eat a little mammal or two most of the time you dont even need a bloody shelter.
By audiofreeq [Affiliate User] 1216691374 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeles hiddings,if your on Oz
By audiofreeq [Affiliate User] 1216691149 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethey taste pretty good too
By stargateproductions [Affiliate User] 1216570358 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveWell they're Air Force, so this is just a hoop they have to jump through. It's not really anything to do with what they joined up for. It's not as if they're on SAS selection or anything.
By gunnermac70 [Affiliate User] 1214452184 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removego and camp out on dartmoor for a few nights, even with specialist kit you'll wish you hadn't.
She's sleeping probably in a bivi under a poncho with nothing else. Shes a brave girl and the RAF are much less likely to be shot down than the yanks!!
awesome info. ventroquilation, and I enjoyed the video.
By ColectvIndvidulism [Affiliate User] 1212266602 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveMors Kochanski. He's the guy who actually coined the term "bushcraft."
By subdivisions416 [Affiliate User] 1210546262 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethey can chew on pineneedles for vitamin C..
By ventroquilation [Affiliate User] 1210464866 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveRon Hood is a good survivalist.
By pidner [Affiliate User] 1210447781 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeor not. Keep them off dartmoor!
By nd017 [Affiliate User] 1208921867 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveSpend a bit of time on Dartmoor. she's not that kind. A man died of cold after climbing inside his hollowed out dead horse... ok thats a ledgend, but it rings true. I have been out walking on a summers day with limited water, I started to go a bit mad - luckily was only a few miles from the edge at the time, and there was streems about a mile that way. Only got a taste of her feirceness, but she is alot bigger when you are hungrey thirsty and exhasted
By nd017 [Affiliate User] 1208921790 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removewhat a bunch of wimps "i wan my mexican taco take away and tv, waaaahhhhhhhh" if it ever goes back to honest to god - face to face warfare the british army will have nought but a legion of teletubbies constantly howling the penultimate words of "UHH OHH"
By ShkyupRthat [Affiliate User] 1207667898 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removedon't you military types know not to attract attention to yourselves via fire? that's why i don't like using wood for shelter.
By mulukchuwen [Affiliate User] 1207080277 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeknowledge is the key to survival and the beauty of it is that it doesnt weigh anything.
By captaincadavor [Affiliate User] 1206557986 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThanks for the videos!
The "extreme" thing gets annoying after a while.
They were pansies at times lol
Lofty Wiseman
By hoppy1970 [Affiliate User] 1205853307 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removedoes anyone know any other survival guy besides this guy, bear grylls and les stroud??
By ventroquilation [Affiliate User] 1205642674 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethanks for the video :p
By pyey [Affiliate User] 1204896773 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThank you for up loading this until tonight I have never heard Of this man and now I have watched over an hour of his programming and have learned things that should be common knowledge.
By cdltpx [Affiliate User] 1202780366 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeyeah it should be like that everywhere
By TheTruePsycho [Affiliate User] 1202559913 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveThats what mandatory military service is for. (currently enlisted recruit in norwegian army)
By plainlake [Affiliate User] 1202539841 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removeas a kid i used to go hiking alot with my father and brother. He taught us survival skills passed down in our family from our ancestors, from lighting a fire to skining an animal. Even in this urban enviroment survival skills should be thaught as mandatory because u just never know when you'll need them
By TheTruePsycho [Affiliate User] 1202173701 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Removethx for posting
By Linkinoe [Affiliate User] 1202011549 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down RemoveGOOD VIDEO
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