Praise for Re-Search
Another grand sounding title to draw you in … sorry! I’ve been looking through the Spam comments that all websites get, especially those as popular as Re-Search (more on that in a bit…) and I have found out just how good I am! Here are a few of the comments; (I’m thinking of starting a [...]
April 26, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: Mountain Bikes, Purposeful Wandering, Starting a Search and Rescue Team, Surrey Search and rescue · Posted in: 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
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
The Use of Mountain Bikes for Search and Rescue
On Friday I posted a news item on the First National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme being run by Black Badge. This sparked a debate; on whether it actually was the first but also on the use of mountain bikes for lowland search and rescue. A number of ALSAR Units now run mountain bike [...]
November 15, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Bike Search Team, Charnes-Cooper Algorithm, Lowland Search and Rescue, Mountain Bikes, Mounted SAR, National Search and Rescue Mountain Bike Instructor Scheme, POA, POD, POS, Probabililty of Success, Probability of Area, Probability of Detection, Probable Success Rate, PSR, Robert Koester, Route and Path Search, Search Effort, Search Theory, Sweep Width, Sweep Width Experiments, Track Length, Wilsar · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Emergency Response & Search & Rescue by Gary Foo
This new book seems to have aroused a lot of interest, certainly here in the UK, but also abroad too. It seemed appropriate then to write a quick review of the book. The book covers a vast amount of ground in its 300 plus pages. It starts with a round-up of the different SAR disciplines, [...]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Briefing, Callout, De-briefing, Emergency Response, Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Gary Foo, International SAR, Lost Person Behavior, Lost Person Behaviour, Mountain Bikes, Mounted SAR, Navigation, SAR, SAR Command, SAR Medicine, SAR Operations, SAR Vehicles, Search Dogs, Search Patterns, Search Theory, Team Roles · Posted in: Search Books, Search Thoughts
