A complete collection of ways to ask for help when you encounter difficulties during your trip

There are more and more people participating in outdoor travel, and people pay more and more attention to the safety issue. Especially in recent years, many news about the dangers and difficulties encountered by travelers in the process of outdoor travel is endless, which makes us realize that we must learn a good way to ask for help outdoors.

When you and your team need help from outside to get out of danger, you should know the basic methods of calling for help.

Setting off fireworks: Setting off fireworks is the most common way to ask for help. Smoking during the day, that is, putting some rubber pieces, raw leaves, moss, ferns, etc. on the fire, can generate burning smoke in order to inform the outside world. When using fire at night, three piles of open flames should be lit in the direction of possible residential areas, and the distress signal should be conveyed by the fire.

optical signal: during the day, with the help of sunlight, the mirror reflects intermittent optical signals to possible residential areas or rescue planes in the air, and the optical signals can travel as far as 16 kilometers. The method is to aim one finger at the place where it should be conveyed, and the other hand holds the reflector to adjust the reflected sunlight, and gradually shoot the reflected light at the aiming direction. At night, use a flashlight to continuously send a distress signal in the direction of distress.

the international distress signal is SOS, that is, three long and three short, which is constantly circulating.

Modern distress methods: With the development of the times, various modern distress devices are gradually popularized, such as beacons, radio communicators, satellite phones and other devices. If conditions permit, these modern devices can be gradually equipped.