KISAMPA WILDERNESS AREA

This course aims to build participant’s confidence in their ability to survive and thrive in any situation that they find stressful. Although the course is taught in a wilderness environment, many of the lessons and principles are easily transferable to general living and life skills.

 

The most important attributes an individual or group can have to aid their survival are A positive attitude, teamwork, common sense and a healthy body.  The skills taught on this course will develop these attributes, as well as self-confidence and leadership in a stimulating and enjoyable atmosphere.

 

The instructors all have vast experience in the fields of expertise.  Rob Barbour – The Course Leader is a previous Australian SAS Special Forces Soldier and a qualified medical doctor.

 

Sanctuary and Msafiri operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner and are conservation minded.  The training is made as realistic as possible with out compromising these principles.

 

Although the course exposes participants to minimal real risk, scenarios are conducted to simulate high perceived risk.  All participants will be asked to sign a release from liability waiver.

Elements of wilderness survival to be taught:

• General wilderness preparedness.
• Planning and planning process.
• Appropriate equipment including the contents of a survival kit.
• Maintaining your health, preventing illness and essential first aid for wilderness emergencies
• The six critical priorities of Wilderness Survival which include:

• Water

• Water finding
• Water making
• Water Storage

• Shelter – Principles of design
  • Uses and resources that can be used

• Warmth – principles of staying warm and healthy
  • How to make and maintain fire

• Food
  • What can be eaten and what can’t
  • How to find or catch food
  • How to prepare food
  • How to store food

• Principles of navigation with and with out compass by day and by night.

• Principles and resources used to communicate and to get help.

This Wilderness Survival Course is not considered a pass or fail course but rather an attendance course.  All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

COURSE ITINERARY

DAY 1: Transfer from Dar es Salaam to Kisampa Wilderness Area by car is 4.5 hours through Zaraninge Forest. Settling in and thereafter introduction to Wilderness Survival courseS.  Introduction to key elements : wilderness survival, planning, preparedness and equipment, discussion on the area, safety, teamwork and how wilderness survival relates to general life skills.

DAY 2: Introductory wilderness first aid course. This is a safety prerequisite as well as being useful survival skills.  This is an 8-hour course.  No previous first aid or medical training is required.  Subjects taught are:

• The D.R.A.B.C patient assessment process, (how to act in those vital first minutes when confronted with a sick or injured person),
• Management of an unconscious patient, (potentially life saving steps are taught when dealing with an unconscious person or persons),
• Breathing emergencies and Expired Air Resuscitation (E.A.R.),
• Assessment and management of wounds, including how to manage a foreign body in a wound,
• Assessment and control of major bleeding, includes learning to recognize and manage shock due to blood/fluid loss.
• Snake bite and other wilderness emergencies.

Students who successfully complete this course receive a Certificate of Competence in Wilderness First Aid, which is valid for two years and is signed by the instructor(s) and the Medical Doctor who endorses the course. 

DAY 3: This day will be spend learning:  finding water, making and storing water, finding and making shelter, warmth and fire making. Other topics will include the importance of water for survival, clues to the existence of water, methods of trapping and storing water  and ensuring it’s portability.

Participants will learn the importance of protecting themselves from the elements, use their initiative to construct shelters, learn a variety of ways to make fire and of the importance of fire in survival

DAY 4:  Food, navigation, and  communicating will be the topics for the day.

This day will be spend learning how to find or catch food from a variety of sources, prepare it for consumption, basics of how to find your position, get from one to point to another using environmental cues and also a compass.   The principle skill is to be able to move to a location, which aids rescue or ensures your survival.  Participants will learn various methods that allow them to communicate in a wilderness environment in an effort to aid rescue.

DAY 5: Half day expedition to consolidate all skills learnt. Course debrief, issue of certificates and later on ddeparture from Kisampa Wilderness Area for your extension to Zanzibar, Game safaris or flight home.

COURSES BEGIN EVERY 10^th OF THE MONTH.  

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Price is inclusive of: accommodation on sharing basis, park fees, vehicle safaris, walking safari, use of  all course materials ( reference books, field guides , binocular), course manual, first Aid course with an internationally recognized certificate, 1 x night accommodation prior to the safari,  airport transfer before and after the safari,  AAR Evacuation cover( please note that this cover does not include hospitalization nor medical bills), laundry while in camp. 

Price is exclusive:  visa, drinks, personal and travel insurance, and any other activity/excursions not mentioned above.