SARWorld – Another Phoenix rising from the ashes?
A quick plug today for a new article on the SARWorld website. David Housley from Midshires Search and Rescue has written a piece on outdoor skills and search and rescue, exploring the use of tracking and “natural navigation” within lowland search teams. Well worth a read, and feel free to join in the debate and [...]
May 17, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Midshires, Natural Navigation, SAR Training, SARworld, Tracking, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
BBC’s Missing Live starts again
You may have noticed the lack of a plug for the Missing People Blog post this week. This was deliberately left till today to remind you all of the start of the BBC’s Missing Live program on Monday – Louise Minchin wrote the Missing People’s blog post about this. I do have some concerns about [...]
May 6, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Louise Minchin, Missing Live, Missing People, Search Technician Training Course, The Missing Blog · Posted in: Search Links, Search News, Search Thoughts
Bias and SAR
Following on from my post last Thursday on “Who is Leading your SAR team?” I got into a discussion with a reader who kindly informed me that I had missed out something crucial from the debate. They reminded me of how the Chair of a team will tend to recruit committee members who have the [...]
May 3, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Bias, Search Training · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Mother of Damien Nettles writes …
If you don’t yet subscribe to the Missing People Blog, can I suggest you do? I know they deal with long-term missing people and it is very unusual for us to deal with anyone missing for more than a day because of the nature of what we do; but I truly believe they complement the [...]
April 24, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Damien Nettles, Missing People, Missing People Blog, Missing Rights, PsychSAR, Valerie Nettles · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Top Five SAR Websites
Today I wanted to list what I see as the top five Search and Rescue websites at this time. Obviously this changes over time, but judged using my secret algorithm (well if Google has one, why shouldn’t I?) based upon their authority, especially over time, their content and importance here are today’s top five SAR websites; [...]
April 20, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Berkshire Lowland Search and Rescue, Bob Koester, dbs Productions, dbS SAR, DIMERSAR, SAR Websites, SARBayes, SEBEV, UK SAR · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
