Surviving On the Island
Plane Crash!
What Happened?
My 3 friends and I were going to our favorite vacation spot, Hawaii. Our plane crashed half way through and we were the only 4 survivours. We need to get off the island to saftey.
How we are going to find shelter?
One of the first things we need to do is to make a small shelter. Most people who have survived a crash onto an island looked for shelter first. We can use scraps of the plane to make a place to stay out of the sun. The raft will also be good protection. We have 4 blankets that will keep us warm at night. We can use leaves as the floor for a softer sleeping place.
Water
We all know to survive we need water. There are many ways to get potable drinking water. The salt water is not purified, so we can not drink it. The way we are going to get the water is by digging a hole about four feet deep and let water seep through and let it sit for about ten minutes.
Food
Food is another important necessity for life. There are animals on the island, so we can hunt them with a bows and snares. We can make a bow by tying three sticks together. We will tie a long string on the two ends to make it look like a bow. To make a snare, we make a loop and when an animal runs through, it will get caught. We will prepare the food over a fire.
FIRE!!!!!
To cook the food, we will need a fire. The method we'll use is a friction fire. We will need a peice of wood and a straight stick. We will rub the stick down in a circular motion pushing down as shown in the picture.
Getting off the island
Now that we have shelter, water, and food, we can signal down emergency help to get off the island. We will do this by two different ways. This will help the rescuers find us easier. We are going to build a signal fire and write words of need in the sand like S.O.S. or HELP!!! To build a signal fire, you take branches and limbs and put them in a pile in a pyramid shape. Then we can start it by making a fire like we did to cook the food.
Rescued!
When we finally get rescued, we tell our amazing story to CNN and to The Today Show. I think we educated other people about how to survive in the wild. We ended up getting a free all inclusive trip to Hawaii. Overall, I guess it wasn't a bad thing that we crashed.