Recent content by Swampy99

I have placed a subscription in good faith with this company in june 2021 to have the magazines sent to me in Australia as we have nothing like it down under. Having not received a single copy and now 6 months of emails to Adam Byrne, David Thompson and the "customer service" team plus having to...

Trangias are great. But the problem I found was the difficulty in taking them on a plane. You had to make sure all the fuel had been burnt off or evaporated and the same for the fuel bottle. Got caught out a few times in airports as the sniffer dog picks up the smell. Plus finding the meths in...

Oxford handbook of expedition and wilderness medicine.

Look at Khukri House knives. I have got two from them sent to Australia with no problem. Also there are many shops in the Thamel region of Kathmandu that sell them. If you are going or have a mate visiting they can get one bringing it back through customs isn't a problem Ive ever experienced.

My complete water purification kit. A Millbank bag, Sawyer mini filter, the dirty and clean water bag, and a packet of puritabs. Think it was lost on the trail or got left in a tea house on the Annapurna base camp track in Nepal. Lucky the next large town on the track had a shop that sold...

HI FD. Yes a PLB is a locating beacon and is a must have down here in the land of Oz. The whole comms question is again an ongoing thing and can become a layered system from a phone, UHF/VHF radio, sat phone, and PLB. As for the not using PIB for a north hemisphere bite is still an area where...

Here's a good YT film about health and Hygiene in the field with minimal water.

My basic foot regime when I am in the Jungle of North Queensland and Malaysia is to wash them at night, dry them with a good scrubbing between the toes and then use the "Foo Foo" bag technique. So 600ml of Johnsons Baby powder with Corn starch in and poor in a bottle of medicated talc, any...

Hi FD. With the PIB for being good or bad treatment for non Australian snakes is still out to jury I believe. The main thing is to slow the transport of venom via the lymphatic system. in the end any bite gets transported to hospital for definitive diagnostic and treatment. If you are more than...

Having treated many snakebites here in Queensland the main thing we do is use the pressure immobilisation technique. even if the person states that it was a non venomous snake we treat as it is until it is proven via blood tests of bite swab that no envenomation has taken place. I always ask...

Very recent evidence now shows that the old wives tale of non climbing venomous snakes is wrong. Any snake in Oz can climb a tree depending on the situation. If they are evading a stressful situation or due to environmental issues.

Hi. Been away from the forum for years. I'm a paramedic of 20 years. Started in Essex in 02 stayed for 8 years then moved to Australia now working for Queensland Ambulance service after they came over and did an international recruitment. The job is basically the same as working for the NHS but...