More thoughts on ALSAR
It might have seemed over the past few weeks or months that I am somehow “down” on ALSAR. This couldn’t be further from the truth. So today I wanted to write some brief thoughts on what ALSAR does do well. First and foremost, it has to be said – without ALSAR the UK would not [...]
February 8, 2010
· 
Robert Bradley · 
2 Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Lowland SAR, Lowland Search, Mountain Rescue, MR, MR E&W, UK SAR Operators Group, UKSAROG, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts
Search and Rescue Growing Up
Following on from yesterday’s Starting a Search and Rescue Team piece I looked in on a “team” that I have been watching for a while. I couldn’t quite work out which way they were going. However, their latest Chairman’s Annual Report contained some very interesting, and in light of recent debate insightful, news; In conclusion, [...]
February 4, 2010
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: Civil Air Patrol, Lowland Search, Mountain Rescue, RNLI, Search and Rescue Team, Sky Watch Civil Air Patrol, Skywatch · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts
Missing Person Behaviour and SAR Callout Study
After several years of messing around I have finally decided – with much prompting and encouragement from others – to get around to studying missing person behaviour within the lowland search environment. ALSAR and LSDog teams deal with only a tiny fraction of all missing persons and indeed deal with only a small fraction of [...]
January 7, 2010
· Robert Bradley · No Comments
Tags: ALSAR, Dementia, Despondents, ISRID, Lowland Search, LSDogs, missing person behaviour, Missing Person Behaviour Statistics, Missing Person Behaviour Study, Urban Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
SEBEV trains its members in AED use
First Aid training is a contentious issue in lowland search. Due to the nature of our “work” we do not often find mispers in need of emergency medical care; they are either well past that or more fortunately in need of a little TLC and not much else. However, the “image” of Search and Rescue and [...]
December 10, 2009
· Robert Bradley · One Comment
Tags: AED, ALSAR, First Aid Training, Lowland Search, Search and Rescue, SEBEV, SEBEV SAR · Posted in: Search News, 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
· Robert Bradley · 5 Comments
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
