3 Open Water Bug Out Priorities:

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• Learn skills and practice before you ever have to use your boat! You’re in a foreign environment, know CPR and first aid, learn navigation, meteorology, communications and vessel operation and maintenance.

• Find the right boat. Do your homework and make sure it is the right boat for the job.

• Have the right attitude and mental state. Being out at sea is a tough mental challenge. When it’s water from horizon to horizon it’s scary for some folks.

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Navigation Tools on the Open Water:

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• Have multiple levels of fallback and multiple systems to back those up.

• Most radio and GPS systems have some shielding built in to protect from energy surges.

• If your GPS were to fail big ships and planes use inertial navigation systems that use a series of gyroscopes for navigation. They must be updates as you progress but they are fairly accurate.

• Celestial navigation – anybody can get a gray plastic sexton. They are good to use on land as well as water as long as you can get high enough to see the horizon.

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At Sea Communications:

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• Short wave radios are good and can communicate over thousands of miles easily.

• Signal side band radios or ham radios are also an important communication tool. These allow you to connect with other survivors and see what is going on.

• CB radios or citizens band radios are also less expensive and good to have. They can communicate 500-1000 miles.

• Power your radios with solar, wind or hand crank.