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At the Education and Training Argentine Center NORTHLATITUDE (E.T.A.C.N.) or (C.A.C.E.N.) -from its Spanish translation-, we offer the running of outdoor courses, in order you may be properly trained and qualified to develop diverse activities in the wilderness. Through our courses we provide instruction aimed for persons with different experiences and skills in the adventure and sporting life, ranging from beginners who would wish to attend a course for the first time, to those with some experience developed but need to attend other courses to get more proficiency and confidence to carry out outdoor activities.Our programs of study are designed to provide a teaching in accordance with each level of the courses. If you want to attend on of them, you must know that they are encompassed in an introductory indoor class, followed with a basic practical training in the outdoor of natural environments. Therefore, the participants will receive a classroom-terrain support through the classes, in order they may begin doing their first experiences by performing skills and abilities during the practice, wherever it is in urban areas or in the wilderness.
Our available courses have been designed to make you able of developing activities as hiking, trekking, mountaineering, orienteering, land navigation, diving, skydiving, etc, in places like mountains, hills, deserts, jungle, forest, ice, rivers, among others.
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Theoretical-practical course designed to be run on basic and advanced levels in which the students will have an introductory study in classroom and then, a practice on the terrain. They will learn and then, subsequently will develop techniques on topographic map reading, comprehension and analysis of a map, satellite maps and other methods like artificial, natural, diurnal and nocturnal Orienteering, needed to be applied in land navigation. This preliminary introduction will cover other topics like using a compass, an altimeter, an clinometer, among other devices or instruments necessaries to be used together with a map. This course is suitable for those persons who practice outdoor activities in adventure races, mountain expeditions, trekking, hiking, explorations, survival situation or others similar.
The program is based to teach the essential in order you get skilled on the basic of the cartography as a geographic sciences destined to show the knowledge of the earth’s surface an the topographic map as a flat, reduced and near representation of selected natural features of the earth or part of it, plotted to different scales. Other techniques to be taught will be on Orienteering and Land Navigation, necessary to be used after drawing an itinerary on the map to undertake a long journey in mountains, forest or others natural places.
Through this course you will learn the basics on techniques and skills of wilderness survival, to apply that knowledge during an emergency that can take place at any wild natural terrain. The study is based on a program of activities, necessary to be carried out in a survival situation, including topics on how to develop a survival plan, First Aids techniques, Signaling for rescue, Shelter construction, Water obtainment and potability, Wild food procurement, Obtainment and making fire with primitive tools, Clothes, PMA –Positive Mental Attitude-, Survival psychology, Snakes, Orienteering and Land Navigation methods, Walking, Raft construction, Bow and Arrow construction, Knots and others more.
Facing the Psychological and physical Obstacles of a survival in an unknown environment of the wilderness, away from their daily costumes and the family, in the middle of an uninhabited terrain with its own climate, fear to the unknown, is part of our program of teaching in which you will be educated and trained. At theoretical class’s end, the students will head out to the wilderness to handle a simulated survival situation in Jungle or Forestlands with a group of persons.
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Course designed to be given only in one level in Spanish and English language, containing a theoretical-practical support based on classroom and training on ground. The program includes from the beginning a preliminary study in everything regarding to survival techniques and methods, to be applied exclusively by the Aircraft Cabin Crew Members when an emergency may take place in geographical areas of Jungle and Forest land. This course begins with the teaching of "SURVIVAL PENTAGON", mathematical figure from which since the theory you will learn the selective procedures that the survivors should be carried out before a real survival situation in wild and hostil lands.
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Theoretic-practical course designed exclusively for Crewmembers personnel of the Aviation in general, commercial or military, aimed to provide instruction on those proceeding regarding to techniques and methods of Search and Rescue (SAR), to face emergency situations that may take place on land or at sea.
The main objective of this course is to provide instruction aimed for professionals like future pilots of aircraft, flight attendants and on board personnel, capable of accomplishing activities in aircrafts. The use of all those elements intended to save own lives as thirds will be also taught. The program covers topics regarding to “Survival in case of air accidents” and “Methods of Search and Rescue”. In view of the characteristics of the course, the practice techniques to be applied will be developed in an aircraft and on land, keeping the training a high degree of realism in which will demand that all the student carrying out the practice as if it were real. The course program encompasses an introductory on theoric and practice techniques for survival in the wilderness of natural environments like sea and wild woodland.
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Courses designed to be given in theoretical and practical modality on Climbing, Auto Rescue, Trekking, Speleology (Cave tourism), Rappelling and Canopy, ideal for beginners who whish to join the world of Mountaineering through diverse tourist circuits in wild and hostile natural environments like hills. The main objective is that participants acquire during the classes and through the excursion outings, a basic introduction on mountain specific techniques (rappelling-canopy) as well as the development of a sporting activity such as mountain like the trekking discipline.
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To join the parachuting world we offer you two options for you first jump: the First Free Fall and the Tandem System course. The First Free Jump, also know as Baptism Jump on our land, is the one in which you will jump from an aircraft from 3,000 mts. of altitude (9,843 feets), together with an expert skydiver instructor, in the air space of a Landing Zone (LZ) of an airclub. During the skydiving, you will be attached to the front of the instructor body by a harness (dual system), who will ever be controlling the safety of both. During the first phase of the tandem jump you will experience the thrill and adrenaline of the free fall during the first 1,500 mts. of altitude (4,922 feets), for about 35 second’s time, without the parachute deployed. Then, when entering in the upper limit of the seconds 1,500 mts. of altitude (4,922 feets), the instructor will pull the ripcord to deploy and open the canopy to begin floating for about 6 minute’s time. During this soft descent, you will be able to watch and observe the natural landscape beneath and also, you will have a special sense of orienteering about the ground you are about to land. We offer the opportunity to hire the service from a cameraman skydiver to accompany you in the jump and record your experience.
The Tandem System Course of Parachuting is designed to introduce you in the world of the professional skydiving, in which you must fulfill a series of jumps, with or without the skydiving instructor in the air, to finally get your license as professional parachutist and make jumps only within the borders of our country. At the end of the practice phase of the course, the students must give an examination before the National Inspector of Parachuting of the Argentine Air Force, to be able of getting the National License as Sporting Parachutist. Besides, if you have already become a qualified parachutist and need to make parachuting jumps in other Landing Zones of the world, you may ask for this requirement before the International Federation of Parachuting.
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The diving world allows living a real adventure when you are submerged in the depth of a submarine world, in a natural environment composed by different species of sea animals. At the National School of Diving and Subaquatics Activities, located in the province of Buenos Aires, there is availability to attend courses aimed for different levels of expertness, ranging from beginners to advanced divers. The practice instruction of the courses will take place in different geographic landscapes of tourist and beautiful natural places like Puerto Madryn and Las Grutas (Argentine), Canteras del Salto (Uruguay), Ilha Ancora, Buzios, Ilha Alvoredo, Florianópolis (Brasil) and Islas de San Andrés (Colombia). In order to begin your own experiences under water, you only need to begin a first introductory class to learn techniques and abilities of the world of diving.
A unique adventure that we present for the first time and for the sport and adventure life of Argentine and the world, aimed to take you in a natural and unknown world for many. The multiadventure is a combination of four sporting disciplines that you are about to develop together with a group of persons in the wilderness. This encompasses the Parachuting + Survival + Orienteering and Land Navigation + Trekking and consist of a combined training of air, land and aquatic activities and will begin by a jump in tandem parachute from an aircraft from 3,000 mts. of altitude (9,843 feets), to make a few minutes later, a soft landing on a wild terrain, where all will be expected by the instructors. After that and when everybody is safely back on earth, the instructors will start an introductory class about techniques of Survival, Orienteering, Land Navigation and Trekking, to be performed by all the adventurers during a time of three days in the wilderness.
The topics covered in the teaching of this adventure will be: First Aids, Shelter construction, Signaling an area for rescue, Water obtainment and potability, Wild food obtainment, Fire making with primitive tools, compass and topographic map use to apply techniques on Orienteering and Land Navigation, among others. The last day of survival, the participants will carry out a long trekking of several kilometers, to reach a designated zone in the map and the terrain, in which they will be expected to taste a delicious farewell barbecue and to be given a certificate of the lived experience.
The theoric and practice classes of the CARTOGRAPHY, ORIENTEERING and LAND NAVIGATION - WOODLAND SURVIVAL and SEARCH and RESCUE (SAR) courses are to be run in Spanish and English language by Gabriel Esquivel as interpreter only, together with Sergio Garriador and Leo Malvasio. The indoor (classroom) and outdoor (terrain) classes where the training will be carried out, are located in local lands of the Capital Federal and Buenos Aires province, among them, in Barrio Norte, Palermo, Ezeiza, Laguna de Lobos, Parque Pereyra Iraola, Delta del Paraná and other naturals lands from Argentine, those to be designated or customised by the interested ones. The SKYDIVING JUMPS (FIRST FREE JUMPS and TANDEM SYSTEM COURSE of PARACHUTING) will be run by Mario “dog” Rodriguez in airclubs located in the surroundings of Buenos Aires province and others of Argentine (wish assistance of Gabriel as English language interpreter).
The DIVING courses will be run by Oscar Franco in classrooms and natural places of the Buenos Aires province, in La Plata city and other natural lands of Argentine and South America. The MULTIADVENTURE that we present exclusively for the sport and adventure life of Argentine and the world (Parachuting + Survival + Orienteering and Land Navigation + Trekking), will be carried out in diverse natural environments of Argentine (with assistance of Gabriel Esquivel, Leo Malvasio and Alejandro Routurou as English, French and Portuguese interpreters).
About the courses, we offer to run them “on-site”, it means that we are able to give the courses in other places of Argentine or the world, previous customization agreed with the interested ones. This way, we aim that you may have the opportunity to receive education and training, wherever you need to. We have plenty of solvencies to move wherever you want to, because our organization is guaranteed by a professional logistic support.
If you want to contact us, please feel free in phoning or e-mailing us through the information you would find on the “Contacts” section of our Website. Before the beginning of any course, we would prefer to arrange a meeting at our centers located in the Capital Federal or Ezeiza City, in order we may have an introduction about your and us and a first communication between “instructors and students”.
We are a group of professionals and highly trained and skilled experts, some of our members of our Staff at NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.), with national and international world recognition. We offer quality, safety and professionalism through the running of our courses, aimed to give you the best.
Individuals, groups, institutions, companies, etc, who wish to take courses in NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.), shall agree the same, only with its Director, Gabriel Esquivel. |
GABRIEL ESQUIVEL
Founder, Director and Instructor from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
Jungle and Forest Survival, Orienteering and Land Navigation Instructor
Delta Survival - Argentine Air Force
SERGIO GARRIADOR
General Coordinator from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
Search and Rescue Instructor (SAR) from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
Search and Rescue Instructor (SAR) from the Argentine Air Force
MARIO “DOG” RODRIGUEZ
National and International Skydiving Instructor from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
National and International Skydiving Instructor from the Argentine Air Force
OSCAR FRANCO
Diving Instructor from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
Diving Instructor from the Argentine Navy
Chairman at the National School of Diving and Subaquatics Activities from Buenos Aires
LEO MALVASIO
Paramedic and First Aids Instructor from NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.)
Paramedic and First Aids Instructor from the Argentine Red Cross
FEDERICO ANGELILLO
Assistantof for the WOODLAND SURVIVAL and ORIENTEERING courses
BRUNO LABOZZETTA
Assistantof for the WOODLAND SURVIVAL and ORIENTEERING courses
GERMAN COSTAS
Assistantof for the WOODLAND SURVIVAL and ORIENTEERING courses
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