Inspiring Search and Rescue Courses
I had the pleasure this weekend of teaching on yet another excellent UKLSI lowland search and rescue course. There are so many comments that can be made that I think several posts this week will be referring back to the weekend, but the one thing that really sticks in my mind is the inspiration I [...]
March 22, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Techniques Course, Best Kept Secret, Lowland Search Technician, Lowland Search Volunteers, SAR Volunteers, Search Technician, Super Heroes, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Qualified Search Technician – a few thoughts
ALSAR is currently looking at what should be included in their SAR Tech course. I have no idea what their thought process is, or where they will go but I thought I would start the re-launch of the Re-Search website with my thoughts on ALSAR initial training and beyond. My first thought is that ALSAR [...]
March 15, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, missing person behaviour, Qualified Search Technician, Search Team Leader, Team Leader Course · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Qualified Search Technician
I’ve had this discussion a few times with people and I thought it was about time I put pen to paper and put it out there for debate. I was disappointed a few years back when ALSAR officially dropped the word “basic” from the Basic Search Techniques course (now known officially as the Search Technicians [...]
December 9, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, First Aid, Kayaks, Lowland Search, Mountain Bikes, Navigation, Qualified Search Technician, SAR TECH, Search Dogs, Search Management, Search Technician, Tracker, Tracking, UKLSI, Water Safety · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Six
How many clues can you find? I often hear of search exercise planners and Training Officers trying to add motivation to an exercise by ensuring that there are loads of clues dotted around for teams to find. There are two comments I have regarding this practice; One; In the lowland search environment it is extremely [...]
November 24, 2009
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Tags: Basic Search Techniques Course, BST, Clues, Lowland Search, Missing Person Search, Search Effort, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Management Team, SMT, Spaced Out Searchers, Team Leader Course, Tracker, Tracking, Training Officer · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
SEBEV Basic Search Techniques Course – Powerpoint Slides
Ever wonder where lowland search started in the UK? The first Basic Search Techniques course was written by Kris Manning, and a couple of others whose names I can’t remember whilst writing this but Kris will, I’m sure, comment on. Kris gave me permission years back for the slides  to be put on the old [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Technician, Basic Search Techniques Course, BST Course, Kris Manning, Search Techniques, Search Training, SEBEV, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
