Cornwall Expedition Scouts

1. 4 Hydration Cornwall Expedition Scouts The Czech Republic 2014 Click anywhere to continue

2. Cornwall Expedition Scouts Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances Click anywhere to continue

3. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances The Czech Republic can have extreme weather. There can be floods or extreme heat up to the mid 30s ‘C – like this day;- You are crossing open moorland and by mid morning it is baking hot and you have already used a lot of the water you are carrying. Click anywhere to continue

4. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You phone the leaders for a lunch-time emergency drop-off and use your remaining water through the morning. click here or You know you are supposed to be self-reliant so decide to carry on schedule and ration water through the day, There is more at the evening camp. click here here or here

5. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You use up your water but get a fresh supply at the lunch stop from one of the leaders – also more sun cream. click here No skill here – just luck or click here

6. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You neck water like goldfish and slap on the sun cream through the afternoon click here

7. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You complete the day’s route and the exped. You win the belt. Well done. Good choices. But go back to the start and see how it could have turned out click here

8. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances It is so hot you strip down to t-shirts and shorts to stay cool click here

9. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You are very hot and begin to feel sick. You have a pounding head-ache. You can stop and do something about it but you will lose time click here or Carry on – Man-up. It has got to improve - hasn’t it . click here Two possibilities or here

10. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You lie down in shade, drink lots and dampen your clothes. After an hour or so you are able to go on. click here

11. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances By evening you realise you are badly burned. In places it is not just red but is very dark, stiff and painful and beginning to blister. You have to call for medivac & spend 4 days in hospital. Your Exped is over. Hard Luck. Go back to the start and try some different choices click here

12. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You begin to drop behind the others – but you don’t care. You just want to go to sleep. You are violently sick and have diarrhoea click here

13. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You become incoherent and unresponsive. You are rushed to hospital. 24hrs intensive care and 4 more days before your parents who have flown out can take you home. You had Heatstroke. When you are feeling better go back to the start and try some other choices click here

14. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You are running out of water so decide to take some from a clear bubbling stream. It is obviously fresh & clean click here You are running out of water so decide to use what you have & boil & treat some country water at your lunch stop click here A little luck here or here

15. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances A few hours later you begin to feel ill. You carry on but You are violently sick and have diarrhoea. You are very weak. click here

16. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You call for medivac. You are very ill in hospital while they run tests. You have an ambulance flight home and are in hospital for a month. It is six months before you fully recover from Weil’s Disease. Be aware of Weil’s disease – you can get it in UK too. Go back to the start and try some different choices. click here

17. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You complete the day’s route and the exped. You win the belt OK – you won the belt but it could easily have gone wrong. Go back to the start and see if you can win the belt without luck! click here

18. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances You complete the day’s route and the exped. You win the belt but by the time you get home you feel as if you have flu. It doesn’t improve and eventually you are diagnosed with Cryptospirosis. You are in hospital and very ill for a long time. Hard Luck – Not a good outcome. Go back to the start and try some different choices. click here

19. Make Your Choices or Take Your Chances Boiling water in combination with ‘puritab’-type treatment is fairly effective but only if boiled for some time. Some pathogens, particularly Cryptospirosis, are resistant to brief boiling and even chemical treatment (and it tastes awful). Boiling will not have any effect on chemical, mineral or industrial pollution. There is nothing special to the Czech Republic about the illnesses mentioned here. You can get them all in the UK (though heatstroke would be a fat chance) The only good advice is to drink water from safe known sources. Click to restart