Izula Whistle

What? Nobody has any specs on this emergency whistle? Are we supposed to trust it with our lives just because?
 
i have a few...not sure about the decibel rating but it's pretty loud for its size, and extremely high pitched.
I have one on my ski jacket and some of my other bags. i would trust it in an emergency situation.
it is pealess, and water is no problem for mine
 
It's a cheap, cord end whistle. No one said you were to trust your life to it. If I was going to trust my life to one I would buy a good FOX whistle (about 4 or 5 bucks) and hang that on the Izula kit. The cord end whistle cost hardly nothing and was just a good way to dead end the paracord if someone wanted to.
 
R.A.T. said:
It's a cheap, cord end whistle. No one said you were to trust your life to it. If I was going to trust my life to one I would buy a good FOX whistle (about 4 or 5 bucks) and hang that on the Izula kit. The cord end whistle cost hardly nothing and was just a good way to dead end the paracord if someone wanted to.
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That's what I needed to know - thanks.
 
I don't know if its the same brand or not, but I have one I purchased from goinggear.com and definitely would not trust my life to it. Its good for what it is, a better than nothing item. I almost think I have a defective one its so quiet.

That being said, it will be used because of its convenience.
 
The one's I've played around with that we're using is pretty loud to be so small, but again, I wouldn't trust my life to it. But the more I think about "trusting my life" to anything, the more I realize that there are hardly any items out there that I do trust my life to since that implies that the product will save your life by the mere fact of what it is. Bullshit. While it's been said time and time again, I think it should be re-stated that the only thing anyone should trust their life to in a real survival situation is their own mind and own intuition, everything else (including all tools) is secondary. True, sub-standard tools are useless but the best tools in the world or even more useless in the hands of incompetency.
 
R.A.T. said:
The one's I've played around with that we're using is pretty loud to be so small, but again, I wouldn't trust my life to it. But the more I think about "trusting my life" to anything, the more I realize that there are hardly any items out there that I do trust my life to since that implies that the product will save your life by the mere fact of what it is. Bullshit. While it's been said time and time again, I think it should be re-stated that the only thing anyone should trust their life to in a real survival situation is their own mind and own intuition, everything else (including all tools) is secondary. True, sub-standard tools are useless but the best tools in the world or even more useless in the hands of incompetency.
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I must have got a defective one.

The mind is your best survival tool. I am surprised more survival manuals don't touch base on this. I have been meaning to pick up a copy of "Deep Survival" by Laurence Gonzales. Supposedly the whole book is about what goes on in survivors minds and why they live while others die.
 
Maybe I'm the one who got the defective one :D

I was one of the guys that got to read the galley proof of Deep Survival and offer feedback before it was published. I still think it is perhaps the best survival book I have read when it comes to why and how situations happen. Read it. You'll love it.
 
troutfisher13111 said:
Supposedly the whole book is about what goes on in survivors minds and why they live while others die.
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If you're interested in that topic, there was a book that used to be popular that I don't see much anymore, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. A Nazi death camp survivor, a doctor/psychiatrist, he was interested in why some people gave up and others survived.
 
shunsui said:
If you're interested in that topic, there was a book that used to be popular that I don't see much anymore, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. A Nazi death camp survivor, a doctor/psychiatrist, he was interested in why some people gave up and others survived.
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Cool! Thanks:thumbup:
 
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