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If you want to stay alive during difficult circumstances, you are going to have to recognize the danger and react to it appropriately. In this article, we will discuss a few tips regarding how to ensure your survival.

Outsmarting wildlife

Your reaction after coming face-to-face with a wild animal may be to bolt, but it can turn that animal into a predator. Although it may sound pretty difficult or impossible, showing no nervous reaction increases your chances to survive if you have no tools in hand or power to fight off the predator.

As precautionary measures, you may want to stay away from shark-infested waters. Carrying a repellent pepper spray while hiking can allow you to ward off bears. The best way is to remain in the open because wild animals prefer staying in the forests.

Vending machine dangers

You may need a snack after skipping lunch. The seemingly best option in this regard is to insert a coin into a vending machine and get a snack to compensate for missing the lunch. Nevertheless, there is a chance that nothing comes out of the machine after inserting a coin, causing you to become mad enough to start shaking the machine.

Shaking the machine this way can be highly dangerous because it has caused 37 deaths between 1978 and 1995 by crushing customers. There are no recent stats available related to such incidents, but these machines are still dangerous. The best way to prevent such incidents is to avoid skipping lunch.

Mow on the level

Rapidly moving blades of a mower can be an obvious hazard. According to a few stats, most lawnmower-related deaths occur due to the flipping of mowers over a sloppy surface, causing drivers to be crushed.

The best way to avoid such incidents is to mow up and down on a slope instead of going sideways. If you cannot back up on a slope, do not mow on that surface.

Be mindful of low-head dams

Low-head dams are used to regulate water coming from streams and rivers. While they may seem relatively harmless compared to other dams, they can still cause people to drown to death. Getting near the dam can cause you to drown at the bottom, even if you are a swimmer. The best way is to swim with the water flow until you no longer feel the water pressure. You can swim upward to breathe.

Don’t hold your breath

If you want to swim underwater, is it the best way to breathe in and out a few times and take a big breath in before submerging into the water? No, it isn’t. This practice is known as hyperventilating, which can result in an increase in the level of oxygen in your blood. It will decrease the amount of CO2, which is a compound that informs your brain that you need to breathe.

The best way to survive this condition is to hyperventilate before going underwater, but make sure that you are not staying underwater for too long.