Bomb Disposal Units: Disarming Deadly Explosives

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Four Lessons From The Azab

Feb 27, 2020

1 Know your boat and its contents. It isn’t good enough to just have a fancy picture on the bulkhead showing lockers and what’s in them if you don’t actually know what’s in them or how to use it. Pull everything out of the lockers, touch it, fiddle w

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Technical

May 27, 2021

Do you carry a fire blanket? What about an extinguisher? If you do, where do you store them? The reason I ask is because I frequently see both items stowed in cupboards or seat lockers. But if you ever have occasion to use either one, you need to be

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Hostile Encounters On The Road

Jun 7, 2022

How realistic is your training? This is a question you should be asking yourself frequently, since unrealistic training can be detrimental to your ability to deal with a survival situation. When it comes to firearms, we often train on a flat range, s

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Technical

Jan 4, 2024

One of the worst experiences in leisure vehicles is a fire. Everyone should carry a fire extinguisher and a fire blanket in their motorhome, but you also need to know how to use them and to store them suitably. I often find them in underseat lockers

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Spring Has Sprung

Aug 22, 2021

‘Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where my snatch strap iz?’ (With apologies to Spike Milligan). Spring – a time of freshening rivers, floods, rain, and wind! Just after we’ve recovered from midwinter. A time to freshen the 4WD and exp

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How To Photograph A Fox Den

Jul 11, 2020

Foxes are highly coveted subjects for wildlife photographers. They’re beautiful, playful, intelligent and express strong family bonds. If just a glimpse of a fox is a treat, finding a den full of fox kits is like winning the photography jackpot. Dens

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Lessons Learned

Nov 7, 2019

From the moment the mast had broken until we were home totaled a nine-and-a-half hour journey under engine across a frisky Baltic. By 0500 the following day we were berthed at our intended destination, rolling into our bunks for some sleep. Thomas, t

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SKIPPERS’ TIPS & YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Feb 2, 2023

MIRANDA DELMAR-MORGAN is an Ocean Yachtmaster, delivery skipper and author of pilot and reference books LU HEIKELL is the leading pilot book author for the Mediterranean and has cruised extensively, including multiple circuits of the Med RACHAEL SPRO

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Disappearing In The Desert

Jun 6, 2023

Most survival skills are environmentally dependent. The way you’d build a shelter in the arctic tundra is quite different from the way you’d perform that same task in a rainforest. But camouflage is perhaps the most environmentally varied survival sk

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Motor Muse Monthly

Sep 14, 2023

This revelation that finding a suitable place to park your camperhome for the night might not be a simple matter crept up on me whilst we were whiling away a few days walking about in the scenery of northern Spain. It's not often that a campsite prov

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Patrick’s Top Tips

Oct 6, 2020

• When you’ve found what looks like a usable spot, there are several things to check for. The first, and most important, is to check the ground where your sticks — taken that you are using them — will stand; if it’s too uneven, soft, or at the wrong

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Trespassing Confessionals To Father Facebook…

Mar 26, 2018

Forgive me, for I was caught swimming in the fire dam below Rhodes Memorial by the rangers. Nothing like having to stand in your bikini while they issue a fine… But it was worth it! It’s the most beautiful spot and you’re only young and daring for so