Archive for December, 2009
Wishing all Search and Rescue Volunteers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
As a non-operational search and rescue volunteer I no longer have to worry about that Christmas Eve search callout. [I'm sure a few readers will remember being out there with me quite a few years back!] Or indeed any callout during the holiday period. I have done my time, as the saying goes. I am [...]
December 18, 2009
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Happy New Year, Merry Christmas · Posted in: Search Thoughts
SAR, Volunteering to Save Lives – £ Priceless
I know this is the moment you’ve all been waiting for – no! not me shutting up for a few weeks! It is time to announce the winner of the SAR Motto Competition. It was fun reading all the entries, but there had to be a winner, so congratulations to Kris Manning for his entry; [...]
December 18, 2009
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Tags: Kris Manning, SAR Merchandise, SAR Motto, The SAR Bookshop · Posted in: Search News, Search Thoughts
Search and Rescue Bike Teams
A while back I wrote a couple of posts regarding using Mountain Bikes for Search and Rescue here in the UK; First National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme and The Use of Mountain Bikes for Search and Rescue Today I came across a couple of international resources for Mountain Bike SAR that I [...]
December 17, 2009
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Tags: Mountain Bike Search and Rescue, Mountain Bike Search and Rescue Training Manual, Mountain Bike Search Team, Mountain Bikes, National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search and Rescue; Autism and Missing Persons
Last week one of Re-Search’s readers was in Canada. He e-mailed about an on-going search for a seven-year old autistic missing child. Interestingly the big story on the TV out here is a missing autistic boy, missing for 2 days in heavy snow wearing a light shirt. They found him today, still alive, no update [...]
December 17, 2009
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Autism, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Search, Search and Rescue · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
Next Year on the Re-Search Website
2010 looks as if it is shaping up to be an extremely busy year for SAR work for me. The SAR Bookshop will be opening in January with a few titles, and I will be building the number of titles in stock as time goes by. [I think I'm supposed to sell some as well, [...]
December 17, 2009
· Robert Bradley · 7 Comments
Tags: Aerial Search, Cleared, Dementia, Despondent, Health and Safety, missing person behaviour, Missing Persons Investigation, Post Traumatic Stress, Purposeful Wandering, SAR Bookshop, SAR Mapping, SAR World, Search Controller Assignment, Search Research, Search Theory, Suicide, The SAR Bookshop, Water Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
