How To Survive in the Wilderness Using Your Mobile Phone

[filcon]

Came across this interesting site, its a bit bear grilsy though.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-survive-in-the-wilderness-using-your-mobile-phone/

phil

 

[Nightfly]

Putting a razor blade in the battery compartment might be frowned upon when you go through airport security...

 

[monkey spanner]

If you phone 112 from your mobile, the call center in Brussels can triangulate your position.
All-way's use this option in an emergency situation.

 

[wicca]

If you phone 112 from your mobile, the call center in Brussels can triangulate your position.
All-way's use this option in an emergency situation.

Why not just phone the News of the World..they'll tell you where you are and even what you had for breakfast.

 

[retired member need4wilderness]

LMAO at wicca :-D

 

[The Lord Poncho]

if you call 999 they can triangulate your position too- the two numbers go direct to the same place.

 

[Shingsowa]

The whole mobile phone triangulation business is very hit and miss. We use it quite often ( well, the Police do) in my MR and SAR work. It's a great way of finding out if Person X is vaguely in the area you are searching, or if they are in fact 200 miles away in Berkshire, but don't expect it to produce an accurate 8 figure grid reference...

The region I operate in is currently trialling an app where we text a code to the missing person, and if it's a smartphone they can click on the embedded link and it emails their location to us using the inbuilt GPS in their phone. Working very well so far!

 

[ex Member swampy99]

We used to get call from the kent ambulance control for jobs in south essex as the tower in kent picked up the call and then that was punted to kent amb control. So it mainly depends on the towers. I say if you need to be found get a GPS enable PLB it can pin you to a 45m area in the open or a 100m area in a closed area then you get in to a visual thing for the SAR chopper.

 

[Shingsowa]

If you are going down the PLB route then look at the SPOT device, much more appropriate to the U.K. and the laws regarding PLB use.

 

[Rich.H]

The site in the op did forget the most obvious option, ring domino's?