Clue Awareness
A fact, an object, information or some type of evidence that helps solve a mystery.
What is a Clue?
The psychological reactions which you may deal with in a survival situation.
What are the Seven Enemies of Survival?
Its acronym is GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
The most commonly used search pattern.
What is a Grid Search?
A devise used to determine direction by a magnetic needle pointing to magnetic North.
What is a Compass?
The categories into which all clues are divided.
What are Physical, Documentary, Testimonial and Analytical?
An enemy of survival which might have you playing Tic Tac Toe in the dirt.
What is Boredom?
A feature which marks a location of interest.
What is a Waypoint?
One search pattern which does not necessarily require the use of a compass.
What is a Contour Search or Track Crawl?
The angle on the horizontal plane between magnetic north and true north, sometimes called Magnetic Variation.
What is Magnetic Declination?
A document used to collect information in an efficient and coherent manner to help support a lost person investigation.
What is a Lost Person Questionnaire?
A greater threat than most people think or sometimes plan for.
What is Cold?
A feature which allows you to create a new location by projecting the distance and bearing from a marked location to a new location.
What is Project a Waypoint?
A search pattern which typically involves 3 to 5 searchers.
What is a Track Crawl?
The direction towards which you are headed.
What is a Bearing?
The act of jumping prematurely to conclusions regarding a search, based on a few clues.
What is Influence of Opinion?
This enemy of survival includes early warning signs of dry lips, parched throat and dark coloured urine.
What is Thirst?
A feature which allows you to customize, use and archive tracks.
What is a Track Manager?
The distance a searcher can effectively search.
What is Critical Distance?
North, South, East, West
What are the Cardinal Directions (Points)?
Something which is practised to develop a degree of competency.
What is a Learned Skill?
This may reduce your mental ability.
What is Fatigue?
Where points are automatically stored when a GPS device is moving.
What is Track Log?
A search pattern which has a searcher on a track, following a trail of clues while searchers leap frog ahead to try and cut the lost person off.
What is the Signcutting Technique?
A more common name for the Azimuth Ring.
What is the Rotating Bezel?