Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Certification
One final piece of breaking news today; a new specialist night/low light search technician certification course being offered by Black Badge, the company that published Gary Foo’s book Emergency Response & Search & Rescue. According to their website; The Emergency Services and Search and Rescue Teams respond to calls year round at all times of the day [...]
November 16, 2009
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Tags: Emergency Response & Search & Rescue, Emergency Services, Gary Foo, Night Searching, Search and Rescue Teams, Search Training, Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Course · Posted in: Search News, 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
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Four
or Terrain Analysis for Search Exercises Once you have selected your search area, looked at the practicalities of holding the search exercise and gone about gaining the required permissions, you need to undertake a terrain analysis of the whole search area. You will need to look at the possible search sectors, the hazards and the [...]
November 11, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Generic Risk Assessment for Search, Health and Safety, SAR First Aid, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Hazards, Search Management, Search PPE, Search Sector, Search Training, Terrain Analysis · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Training in Visual Search for SAR
I recently started to read Mark Gleason’s paper – THE SEARCH FOR HUMAN REMAINS IN THE SEARCH AND RESCUE ENVIRONMENT. I’d downloaded it a while back and skimmed it, but hadn’t sat and thought about it much. I got as far as the first page before I got very distracted by something he wrote about “search [...]
November 4, 2009
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Tags: Global-focal Model, Lowland Search, SAR, Search Images, Search Techniques, Search Training, Sweep Width, Tracking, Visual Search · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Search exercise planners handbook – Part Three
Once you have decided on potential search areas, based upon historic data etc. you then need to thing about the practicalities of the exercise. Issues like where will you run the search from? RVs, parking, welfare and so on. Parking is always an issue when search volunteers are traveling from around the county to the [...]
November 2, 2009
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Tags: ALSAR, Missing Persons Search, Publicity, SAR De-briefing, Search Areas, Search Control, Search Exercise, Search Exercise Planners Handbook, Search Training, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
