Survival School Australia
Advanced Survival Course (1-Day Course)
Dig deeper into traditional fieldcraft and advanced survival techniques with our enlightening 1-day training course at our survival school Australia.
Expand your knowledge and skill base…as we continue on from SCT’s Intermediate Survival Course. We explore in greater depth the various different areas of some traditional methods and up-to-date survival skills.
Here, you will extend your previously learnt skill sets further, as we teach you more traditional wilderness methods missed with sound modern techniques and tested equipment, to help enable you to survive in the bush and tackle anything that mother nature can throw at you.
As with our other basic and intermediate one day courses, you will be instructed using a tried and tested method – a combination of highly relevant theory along with practical bush and survival skills. See our course overview and all of our courses here.
This will be based at our survival school Australia venue in Launceston’s outskirts or at our Hobart venue and will provide you with a solid understanding and real-world application of advanced techniques that could one day save your life!
You will learn to build natural shelters to fit the number of people in your group without losing precious heat, how to make a natural bedding platform, learn friction fire-lighting technique.
Additionally, you will learn simple traps, and increase your knowledge from our previous courses on how to navigate and travel naturally using features in the land and using the sun and stars.
We will cover some of the many written (and some unwritten) rules of survival for any outdoor environment (in the wilderness or in urban surroundings) – such as with your sleeping system…that having a layer of protection on the ground underneath you is worth two layers on top of you.
THE INVALUABLE LIFE SKILLS YOU WILL GLEAN FROM ANY OF OUR COURSES AT SURVIVAL COURSES TASMANIA WILL HELP TO INSTIL CONFIDENCE IN YOUR OWN ABILITIES AND HELP YOU TO BECOME MORE RESOURCEFUL
Course Syllabus – Advanced Survival Course
Duration: 1 day – 8:30am to 5pm
Price: $198 (adult), $158 (child) – which includes: 1 day of survival & bushcraft instruction from a fully qualified instructor, hot beverages, land use fees, insurance and your own emergency sleeping bag to take home
Minimum age: 12 years (students under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult)
It is a pre-requisite for students to attend the Intermediate Survival Course prior to attending this course
You will learn:
- Combined natural & emergency shelters using a combination of materials.
- Insulated sleeping platforms.
- Travelling using natural navigation (using both the sun & the stars).
- Improvised water container for drinking out of.
- Advanced water procurement (transpiration method).
- Advanced campfire techniques (four-stick method etc).
- Bushcraft technique for lighting friction fire.
- How to make simple snowshoes (compared to the tennis-racquet-style snowshoes shown in many survival books) that work in deep snow, as well as marshy / boggy plateaus (e.g. on Ben Lomond’s western plateau).
- Wilderness fishing tools (multi-pronged spear, improvised fishing hook & line etc) & techniques on how to use them.
- How to build & set a snare trap.
There are lots of varied skills to be learnt on this advanced stage course, so be ready for a full day and a steep learning curve, with it still being equally challenging and rewarding, and will hone your technical and practical abilities, as well as being fun and enlightening at the same time.
The instructors at Survival Courses Tasmania are trained in modern survival techniques and in more traditional bushcraft, with qualifications from some of the top survival and wilderness schools in Australia and overseas.
Check out our growing survival and fieldcraft blogs here.
As with any survival school in Australia, there are numerous ways to light a fire in a survival situation using the friction method – have a look at this article here.