The drilled into the ground response on how to avoid a shark attack is obvious, don’t go into his office or courtroom. That aside, as the summer continues and many of us are still vacationing, we bring you a few simple techniques that may be helpful to your survival in very dangerous situations:

 1. Shark attack.  Fight back.  Use whatever object you may have, including a camera, a rock or your hands to gauge repeatedly into its eys or gills.  Sharks cannot bite anything vertical to it (as its teeth run in that direction) so avoid trying to dangle your legs or arms across its snout to pull its attention away. 

 2. Rip tides.  Our natural instinct to to fight an undertow (aka: rip tide) by swimming against it and trying to make it back to shore.  Do the opposite.  Swim parallel to the shore, you will fall onto the shallow end of the rip tide and then try to make it to the side of the shore.

 3. How to get out of quicksand, alive.  Don’t sweat it too much, flailing about will certainly get you further entrenched or worse.  Excellent clip below by a trained expert of how to extricate yourself from quicksand; worth the watch.

4. Snake bites.  Presume the snake is venomous.  Remain calm; keep you heart rate as low s possible and get yourself to a hospital ASAP. Tourniquets do not work and can later cause for a limb to be amputated.  Apply a  restriction band (ACE bandage, torn shirt), approx. 2-4 inches above the bite, loose enough to allow one finger to pass underneath.  This allows for some blood to flow to the area but not cut off the blood supply complete.  Don’t worry about the type of snake that bit you or trying to kill it to bring it with you.   Anti-venom these days is polyvalent- that is, they are effective against multiple venom.

Be careful, be prepared and stay calm.

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