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
What next for the Re-Search website?
I’m on holiday! You could be forgiven for not knowing as I have managed to write something for yesterday and today before I went off, but on holiday from writing I am. It did get me thinking though of where to go from here? Last week’s Mental Health for SAR week seemed to go well, as [...]
April 19, 2011
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Tags: Mental Health for SAR, SAR Websites, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Links, Search Presentations, Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Hampshire Search and Rescue Team Abuse Local MP
Hantsar last night invited a couple of local politicians along to their search training. Here are some of their responses; After fun eve with hants search and rescue scratched face will recover. Trousers probably won’t! Good stuff. Nice people… Sandra Gidley, MP and Great evening training with Hampshire Search and Rescue Impressed by the friendly [...]
January 29, 2010
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Tags: Hampshire Search and Rescue, Hantsar, Martin Tod, Sandra Gidley, Search Training · Posted in: Search Links, Search News
Qualified Search Controllers, Search Managers and Search Trainers
One of the comments made following my piece on getting the search controllers assignment right was that a database of qualified search controllers and managers would be useful to “trainees” [for want of a better word...] In truth what Johnnie Walker actually said was; Rob, could you collate and list the qualified Search Controllers within [...]
January 24, 2010
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Tags: ALSAR, ALSAR Instructors, Johnnie Walker, SAR Instructor, SAR Team, Search Controller, Search Instructor, Search Manager, Search Trainer, Search Training · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Wabi-sabi and the Art of Search
OK – I admit it. I need to get out more. I read a book a while back on Leonardo da Vinci. It was saying something like we can think like this genius, by putting into practice these six or seven skills. I didn’t take too much notice but it came back to me the [...]
January 20, 2010
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Tags: Animal Tracks ID, Baseline, Clue Field, Clues, Connessione, Foot Searcher, Ian Maxwell, Keri Smith, Leonardo da Vinci, Living out LOUD, Max, Michael Gelb, Missing Person, Missing Person Search, Search Exercise, Search Training, SEBEV, Tracker, Tracking Course, Wabi-sabi, Zoning In · Posted in: Search Books, Search Thoughts, Search Training
