Glyn David
Glyn has worked in survival related roles his entire life and has a wealth of qualifications and experience. His career started in the UK military as a naval commando support pilot. During this time he began gaining his extensive experience of military combat survival, escape and evasion, and arctic, marine, desert and jungle survival. A keen mountaineer, Glyn has also spent numerous years attached to and involved with mountain rescue, cliff rescue and maritime rescue agencies. He also has extensive training (including current HSE approved qualifications) and practical experience in understanding and treating injuries and conditions most likely to be encountered in survival situations.
Glyn has spent time as an air ambulance helicopter pilot, a police helicopter pilot, a Search & Rescue helicopter pilot and a disaster relief helicopter pilot. Through this he has put to practical use his survival and emergency skills in both large scale disasters and more commonplace situations (from oil spills on coastlines, to people trapped out / in cars / at home by snowfalls and weather, lost / injured in the hills and forests, through marine disasters such as overturned yachts, sinking fishing boats, capsized passenger liners, major oil platform explosions).
In addition to this, Glyn is an expert on emergency decision making under stress. In this capacity he has published papers, contributed full chapters in a number of books and has delivered numerous speeches at conferences as well as having held seats on a number of professional committees.
He has done consultancy work and given training on emergency decision making and survival training variously to the following organisations;