Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Survival Craft Release & Retrieval Systems is an essential & comprehensive guide to the safe operation of survival craft release & retrieval systems. Written by the seafarer for the seafarer, it contains up-to-date guidance on lifeboat safety – including summaries of all major regulations –informative incident case studies, & a handy lifeboat launch & recovery checklist that can be used on board. ...

Learn how to survive in the wild with knowledge from her majesty's finest
- the Royal Marines Commandos. Pick up survival basics,
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The Survival Whistle by Lifesystems is a pocket-sized whistle that can be attached anywhere with a key-ring. It is ideal to attract attention in an emergency & it is recommended by the Mountain Leader Training Board as an essential item to be carried in the hills. This is a tough, lightweight plastic whistle capable of producing a 122 decibel sound. It is the most powerful in the world. The international distress signal is 6 blasts of a whistle, one minute pause & repeated. ...

-- For teenagers traveling abroad without parents or teachers
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Includes:: up-to-date phrases & expressions


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After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, & rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, & exhaustion. ...

The intrepid Oxford don, explorer & author of Going to Extremes is back, & he's set himself a challenge to cope with the worst that nature can throw at him in Surviving Extremes. Travelling to four of the most extreme natural environments: swamps, deserts, jungles & arctic wastelands, the question is, can he pick up enough tips from the indigenous people to hack it at the very edge of human existence, or will his mid latitude sensibilities forever let him down? This is Nick's account of how he had to put his body & mind to the test in a unique survival experiment. Praise for Going to Extremes: 'A brilliant read...that illustrated the strong will & determination of man in the face of everything that nature had to throw at us' Wanderlust ' Loveably insane Oxford geography professor Nick Middleton...has something of the amateur Victorian explorer about him...a compelling & hilarious look at one of man's lunatic obsessions' The Sunday Times ...

Just one month after his twenty-first birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist & 2000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants & teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first glance, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful & laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould's efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic & ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands & the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. ...

Climate change, killer asteroids or President Palin
- how will the world end? & what exactly can we do about it? The Rough Guide
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