Learn from a SERE instructor and the founder of The Prepared. This course covers everything you need to know about one of your most critical resources — from prepping ahead of time to what to do in an emergency.
9 Chapters | 23 Lessons | 7+ Hours of Video
Yet most people have no idea how to survive without depending on clean water from the tap. And your local supply is not as dependable as you might think — just ask the people in Flint, Michigan or Austin, Texas what it’s like to suddenly be told “don’t use the tap water!”
Natural disasters and droughts are becoming more common and severe. Your local infrastructure might collapse and cause a humanitarian crisis. We interviewed the Portland Water Bureau, for example, and they expect the Cascadia earthquake will leave over a million people without water for months.
Good news: After just a single day of learning in this course, you’ll be able to handle almost any situation imaginable.
Don’t be a victim — learn how to protect yourself, your family, and your community while reducing strain on the system when emergencies happen.
You can get your household ready for the vast majority of emergencies with a few simple and cheap steps — even if you’re on a tight budget or in a tiny apartment. You’ll learn about:
You’ll be able to handle common emergencies just by using what you’ve stored ahead of time. But if things are serious, you might need to find more water, make it safe to drink, and deal with the chaos. You’ll be able to:
Jessie Krebs was an Air Force SERE instructor (survival, evasion, resistance, and escape) that taught aircrews how to survive if they went down behind enemy lines. Now she teaches civilians through her Colorado-based school and consults for a variety of wilderness survival TV shows. Jessie’s experienced with Wilderness Therapy and particularly likes teaching women and other underrepresented groups.
John Ramey is the founder and chief editor of The Prepared. He’s credited as the leader of the “modern prepper movement”, with over a decade of teaching and advocacy. John previously served as an advisor to the White House, including co-founding the Defense Innovation Unit for the DOD, and has worked in over 30 countries on related issues like climate change and social unrest. John also worked as a Silicon Valley innovator and investor.
Prepping is about anything that could majorly disrupt your life, which might be as simple as a car accident or sudden job loss. Natural disasters are another biggie, as are things like pandemics, economic crashes, civil unrest, and worse. Here’s more.
These courses are meant to apply to normal life as much as possible, but they also explain what to do in the really bad scenarios.
Courses are broken into lessons (eg. “Dehydration”) and their topics (eg. “Symptoms” or “Treatment”). You move through at your own pace and in whatever order you want. Most topics have a main video with additional pictures and text beneath.
Once you finish a course, you’ll know enough to get you through the vast majority of emergency scenarios you’ll face and you will be better prepared than 99% of people around you.
You’d be shocked at how much dangerously-wrong “advice” is taught online. Skip the rambling amateurs, extremist hermits, and ineffective lessons that don’t actually make you safer.
Even if you can find good free needles in that massive haystack, it will take days of hunting just to come close to these high-quality, professionally-taught courses — and you won’t get the ‘whole package’ of a structured, memorable flow built specifically for modern preppers.
In-person learning is great, especially for getting dynamic feedback as you practice your skills. And for hanging out with other people. Here’s a list of local training centers. Many of our video instructors also offer in-person lessons. But physical classes are often multiple times more expensive than these online courses, require you to travel, and you can’t go at your own pace.
You might want to take an online course so you can warm up at your own pace before your limited and expensive in-person time. Maybe you want to try the cheaper online version first before deciding if you want to go to a more advanced physical course. Or maybe you’ve taken an in-person course and want the digital version as a refresher you can go back to over the years.
“Although I normally prefer reading, I was hooked as soon as I watched the first video in this course. I learned a lot even though I’ve been a survival student for over 40 years! I really liked the very likeable trainers and how they presented the materials, especially the demonstrations that I could try myself.”
Thomas L
June, 2021
“I bought the course and binged watched the whole thing. It was extremely well done, a thoughtful and thorough presentation. Money and time well spent. It made me rethink and level up my water game plan.”
David H
January, 2021
“The Prepared runs more in the scouting-for-adults vein rather than towards stockpiling for the zombie apocalypse.”
“The Prepared offer[s] useful, non-alarmist advice on disaster preparedness.”
Whether you’re totally new or just want a refresher, we’re confident you’ll be a successful student.