Survival quiz?
You and your companions have just survived the crash of a small plane. Both the pilot and co-pilot didn't make it. It is mid-January , and you are in Northern Canada. The daily temperature is 25 below zero, and the night time temperature is 40 below zero. There is snow on the ground, and the countryside is wooded with with several creeks criss-crossing the area. The nearest town is 20 miles away. You are all dressed in city clothes appropriate for a business meeting. Your group of survivors managed to salvage the following items: Show how you would list them in order of importance.
A ball of steel wool
A small ax
A loaded .45-caliber pistol
Can of Crisco shortening
Newspapers (one per person)
Cigarette lighter (without fluid)
Extra shirt and pants for each survivor
20 x 20 ft. piece of heavy-duty canvas
A sectional air map made of plastic
One quart of 100-proof whiskey
A compass
Family-size chocolate bars (one per person)
In the situation you describe the first thing you need is warmth. If you cannot get warm and maintain warmth, you will die.
So immediately put on the extra shirt and pants is primary.
Next you need to build a fire.
The things you have that are essential for this task are
the ax, (cut down a rotten dead tree and take the inner wood out which will be dry and ready to burn. If no rotten tree is available, cut wood chips from a fir or pine tree)
the newspaper (you need something that burns easily to get the fire a start. Put the wood on top of the paper.
the alcohol (it burns! poor a capful on the paper and bit of wood, which will soak in slightly and provide a very hot flame for a minute)
the 45 pistol (take the ammo out and you can salvage the powder which will provide instant fire starter. Poor the powder from one bullet on the paper.
the lighter (when you flick the lighter you get a spark to start the fire even though it won't light itself. Flick the lighter on the powder, which will cause a flash burn, which will ignite the alcohol which will ignite the paper which will ignite the wood)
OK, we have a fire and now we can survive for at least 7 days without food.
Take the crisco out of the can and place on a board (we can use this for rubbing feet and burning later if we need to, but for now we really need the can to heat snow to melt for drinking water)
The heavy duty canvas will provide a tent/lean-to at night, so we probably should consider it the next important.
The ball of steel wool will be useful if we are going to be here for a while because we can unwrap the steel wool and use it to build some fine twisted wire to make a snare for catching a rabbit.
The chocolate bars will profice sustaining energy but we are not going to eat them for a while.
The compass and the air map will be useful if we decide to walk out, but for now keep the fire going really big and wait for the search planes that will be coming this afternoon.
If we were silly and did not file a flight plan, we are probably going to be here for a few days while they search the grids.
Just remember, DO NOT PANIC. We are going to stay put even though we can walk 20 miles in the summer, but in the winter we will be asking for much trouble if we start walking. The search planes will not find us, we will get wet and cold and perhaps hypothermia, and we will probably die for sure if we leave the crash site. Just stay there, keep warm and dry and for goodness sake, make the fire huge. You are not going to run out of wood, and you need to be noticed from a long way off by airplane.
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