While most of the survival mindset deals with weather or man-made events that require plans, stockpiles and quite a bit of equipment as well as a repository of knowledge, some are more immediate.

Those types of SHTF moments are sudden, often violent, destructive, can be deadly and happen every day – it is just that they do not happen in general all that frequently.

They include house fires, accidents, robberies, getting lost on a hike, etc.

One of the most frightening is being trapped in a submerged or submerging car.

You could be in an accident where you drive off a road or bridge, get swept up in a flash flood or encounter water crossing a roadway that has eaten out a channel beneath the road.

If any of that happens, you must know what to do and be able to do it quickly.

To see how to escape a sinking or submerged car, check out the next page.

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