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Experience the challenges and rewards of coastal survival on a Trueways Coastal Survival Course. Learn how to live from the beach, maximising the benefits of what the ocean can offer: fish, shellfish, seaweeds and coastal plant life are all tasty treats, but first we must master the skills of site selection, shelter, signalling and making water safe to drink.If you already have some of these skills, then learning to use them in a coastal environment will certainly grow your abilities and enjoyment of the environment, but likewise if this is your first foray with survival training then it offers great coastal delights!Set in remote areas of the UK, the sights are truly amazing providing a real benefit to the whole experience.

Why Choose Trueways?

Lofty WisemanTrueways Survival offers coastal survival courses to suit any taste or at any level of experience. Our coastal courses are designed to take the beginner from those very first steps all the way to training in our Global Environments Training packages. Trueways is the only Survival School in the UK with the expertise capable of and offering training anywhere in the world using only their own staff. Let our experience provide you with Real Skills for Real Situations.

Trueways survival courses offer participants the opportunity to learn and practice the skills and techniques needed to survive without the comfort and convenience of four walls and a supermarket! As well as being highly fun and rewarding, these acclaimed courses are based upon the tried and tested methodology of Trueways most senior team member – none other than bestselling SAS Survival Expert John “Lofty” Wiseman, so everything that is taught, demonstrated and explained has the highest level of authority. 

Lofty Wiseman's is one of the world's foremost experts on survival. His teachings, including multi-million best selling book, 'The SAS Survival Guide' is used the world over as reference by everyday people and experts alike and can be found in 18 languages. Trueways and Lofty also produced the best selling 'Trueways Survival Skills with Lofty Wiseman' DVD as well as the SAS Survival Guide iPhone and iPad apps and the 'Trueways Survival Skills' playing cards.

Trueways Courses

Trueways survival training begins with an introduction to the basic elements of survival, then steadily develops and expands upon this groundwork as students gain more knowledge, experience and confidence. All Trueways courses are hands-on and practice-based, and students will apply their skills with increasing independence as they move forward in the programme:

  1. Survival psychology
  2. Basic survival equipment
  3. Shelter siting and construction
  4. Fire making and maintenance in all conditions
  5. Heat management and conservation
  6. Signalling and rescue
  7. Water acquisition and treatment
  8. Food identification, acquisition, testing and preparation
  9. Navigation without aid


Trueways Coastal Survival Courses run all year round and course vouchers are valid for a full 12 months from purchase (extensions available at extra cost). Course attendees receive a Trueways Survival Tin at the begining of each course and a signed certificate upon completion.

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Level 2 2 Days
(Weekend)
Level 2 Certificate or General Camp Craft skills required Coastal Course - The course is based around a survival scenario, where you will have to provide for yourselves whilst marooned on the coastline. You will have to survive through applying the skills and techniques taught on a previous Trueways course whilst learning how to live entirely on what nature provides from the coastal land and the sea itself.
Level 2 3 Days
(Weekend)
Open to All Coastal Course - As with the 2 day coastal course, this course is based around a survival scenario, where you will have to provide for yourselves whilst marooned on the coastline. On the extended 3 day coastal survival course you will survive on what nature provides from the coastal land and the sea itself, with more time to cover additional skills and subjects openinh up the course to a wider range of attendees.

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