Develop a survival pattern that lets you beat the enemies of survival. This survival pattern must include food, water, shelter, fire, first aid and signals placed in order of importance.

Your mission as a person in a survival situation is to stay alive. You are going to experience an assortment of thoughts and emotions. These can work for you, or they can work to your downfall.

You won't last long in any survival situation without drinking water. Get the basics on finding water, wherever you are, and how to get it clean.

Fire serves a lot of survival purposes and could be the difference between living and dying. Learn the fundamentals before you find yourself in a worst-case scenario.

If you're stuck in a cold-weather survival scenario, hypothermia is a threat. But there's also a little something called frostbite that could menace your fingers, toes, hands and feet.

Sometimes you can be stranded in the urban jungle, too. Find out how to survive in a natural or man-made disaster.