Survival Options
SOS Distress Signals
Sometimes survival depends on SOS an international distress signal. The letters don't stand for anything, such as "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls," but they create an unmistakable sound pattern and are easy to remember in Morse code: three short - three long - three short - pause - repeat (· · · · · ·). The term, SOS, is now often used to refer to all distress signals with or without Morse Code and vary depending upon where you are. Sailors use whistle blasts or light flashes to send Morse Code SOS signals.
Campers send three puffs of smoke or lay out markers in a triangle to signal a search plane.
Hunters fire three gunshots.
Mountain climbers use six long whistle blasts or light flashes, repeated at one-minute intervals.
Airplane pilots send a Mayday! Mayday! radio message which is more distinctive vocally than "SOS."
If you're choking on food, you should summon help from bystanders by grasping your throat. If you're alone, perform the Heimlich maneuver on yourself by placing your fist just above your navel and fall onto a tabletop (or the like); your fist will push forcefully into your diaphragm and force air out of your lungs thereby blowing out the food lodged in your throat.
Drivers with a CB radio call for help on either channel 9 or 19. How can a kidnap victim summon help when window-glass muffles her shouts? Not by waving that looks like shes merely saying Hello. Better to draw an outstretched hand toward her chest, as in the Come here gesture, or intertwine her fingers and clasp her hands together in a pleading/praying gesture. A distraught facial expression augments the message. An international distress signal for greater distances is to slowly raise and lower her outstretched arms (on each side) repeatedly her hands describing a large circle. See all worst-case scenarios:
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