Coastal Survival Team

Our team of Coastal Survival instructors is made up of a broad mix of passions and advanced, well-practised skills, combined with the ability to communicate and share valuable information simply and honestly. We learn and inspire each other, constantly learning and evolving. We only consider past students to become possible instructors after completing our Coast Master Award course.

Fraser Christian – Founder

Fraser Christian - Coastal Survival instructor
Fraser – Founder

The Founder of Coastal Survival and the Coastal Survival School, Fraser is a fully Qualified Charter Skipper, MCA Commercial Endorsed Skipper. Included in these qualifications are RYA Sea Survival, VHF Radio operator, Navigation and First Aid at Sea.

Fraser was first teaching survival and bushcraft skills to his local scout group over 25 years ago and has since been lucky enough to fish, hunt and forage professionally. He has had some amazing experiences and mentors in his life and is pleased to share his valuable lessons and knowledge with many others. He is also a fully qualified chef and nutritionist with a passion for wild herbal medicines, wild food and outdoor cooking skills including preserving and smoking foods. This has helped him gain an instinctive understanding and respect of both nature and the elements, his past also seen him lead and instruct the popular River Cottage – Catch and Cook, and Fish Skills courses, published in many magazines, and to write his new books – Eat The Beach and Coast Hunter.

Recently Fraser has immersed himself in the philosophy of “practice what you preach” and now lives completely off grid spread between the coast and a remote wild woodland, actually living the life, he teaches.

Si – Coastal survival instructor

Si Parker Using a coastal survival pocket Gill net

Si joined the army at 17 years old  and has served all over the world in just about every type of terrain. Serving as an Arctic warfare and survival specialist for nearly five years tested him to his physical and mental limits in what is undoubtedly the most inhospitable place on earth- with temperatures dropping below minus 50 degrees Celsius! His military training and personal thirst for knowledge has given him a wide range of skills applicable to many outdoor situations.
Si has loved being outdoors since an early age. He believes that once you have the knowledge and skills to survive you need very little and he believes in mixing ancient skills and equipment with modern equivalents to cover all eventualities.
A keen hill walker and fresh water fisherman, he loves passing on his outdoor experiences in a humorous but professional manner.

Tom – Seashore specialist and Coastal Instructor

Tom - Coastal Survival instructor

Tom has grown up and been lucky enough to live on the coast for most of his life allowing  ample time to be spent on the coast, usually catching something, somehow. Tom has a degree in marine biology and specialised in fishery science (he knows how fish think). Tom can show you and identify every thing that lives in an around the beach and rock pools, he’s a master fisherman with a soft patient approach to both hunting and teaching. Tom met Fraser when he started working at River Cottage and between them went on to run and instruct their popular fish based events together for several years.

Becky – Coastal Survival Instructor

Becky - Coastal Survival

A passion for wilderness canoe and hiking trips have led her to survival training and the preparedness that is required when trekking off the beaten path. Always a water lover, she first dabbled in fishing in Canada where she caught her first catfish. Since then she has been hooked on learning about fishing and the abundance of wild edibles on our own British coastline. A background in horticulture and arboriculture work has given her a good foundation to build on her existing plant knowledge with the addition of coastal plants. She has learnt tracking skills from Tom Brown in the US and am accumulating knowledge in all things track and sign. It’s great to interact with others on their learning journey in the outdoors and participate in this growing community of nature enthusiasts. 

Carl – Instructor and Regional Coastal Instructor – South East

Carl - coastal survival instructor

A Master Carver

Carl again like all our team has demonstrated dedication and a personal passion for the skills we teach. A master carver in his own right, and now well on his way to experiencing and sharing the skills with many others. Carls origional desire to go camping with his family has led him deeper into the wild and on a really wild journey of discovery with us.

Dave  – Regional Coastal Instructor – North East

Dave - Noth East Coastal survival Instructor

NE Coastal survival instructor, Urban survival, foraging, prepping and field survival skills, military land Nav SME, mountain leader, canoe and kayak coach, archery instructor and axe thrower.

Outdoor education and forest school instructor for an SEN school in the North East. Infantry army reservist and Outdoorsman living next to the coast raising my own Cubs to play and learn outside.

Emma – Web/Admin

Em has worked on websites for the last 20 years and has been working with Coastal Survival for about 5 years. She has recently taken over the admin side from Lorraine. Em tries to live symbiotically with nature and loves having a go at making things out of reclaimed, recycled and free materials, her biggest project so far is a triangular shaped shed. She also forages in her spare time, mainly for mushrooms as she is also a keen allotmenteer and grows the majority of her food the year round, preferring the no dig method.

Guest instructors are brought in when a subject requires that advanced level of proficiency and passion!

Learn from the best and draw on a life times worth of collective knowledge and real time practical experience!

Hire a Coastal Survival Instructor for private courses and 1-2-1 training in all aspects of our skill base.

Coastal Survival Instructors are available for private tuition and on a freelance basis in the UK and further afield  Please enquire for availability and rates.

Want to become a Coastal Survival Instructor? We only take on and develop skills with former students that we select to join the team.

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