Joel van der loon

The last 12 years, I have traversed through 40 countries and crossed oceans as a professional crew member, exploring some of the worlds most remote locations by sea. I have hiked, camped, and paddled in just about every type of ecosystem and trained in desert, alpine, jungle, and temperate survival methods. I have taught survival skills to various demographics such as families, celebrities, children, military, and even little people with dwarfism. I am qualified in advanced sea survival under the British Coastguard, I have tracked and hunted with the Maasai and Hadzabe tribal people in Tanzania-East Africa, and learned jungle survival skills from the Rama Indians in Nicaragua. I have put myself into testing conditions in the remote jungles of Costa Rica, the Alaskan arboreal forest, Florida swamps, arid Sonoran desert, coastline of Mexico and of course all-over California with little more than a knife, water bottle, and the clothes on my back.