SAR Tracking
I find myself thinking more and more about tracking in SAR recently. Partly I think it is because I have been ordering stock for the SAR Bookshop. I have so far managed to secure small supplies of Jack Kearney’s TRACKING:Â A Blueprint For Learning how ; Rob Speiden’s FOUNDATIONS FOR AWARENESS, SIGNCUTTING AND TRACKING ; [...]
January 5, 2010
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Tags: Bob Koester, Foundations for Awareness Signcutting and Tracking, Jack Kearney, Joel Hardin, Mantracking, Mantracking and Search Dogs, Rob Speiden, SAR Trackers UK, SAR Tracking, SAR World, Search Plan, Track Awareness, Tracker, Tracking, Tracking A Blueprint for Learning How, Tracking Standards · Posted in: Search Thoughts, Search Training
Tracking for Search and Rescue
Last year, Ian “Max” Maxwell’s Tracking course at UKLSI, got me thinking about how to integrate Tracking into the management of a vulnerable missing person search. Whilst I had some initial thoughts these were based entirely in ignorance – I’d never done any tracking, nor watched it. So I set out to learn more about [...]
December 10, 2009
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Tags: Animal Tracks and Sign, Bang and Dahlstrom, Bob Carss, Complete Guide to Tracking, Jack Kearney, Mantracking, Science and Art of Tracking, Search and Rescue Tracking, Search and Rescue Volunteers, Sign, Sign Cutting, Tom Brown, Track Aware, Tracking, Tracking A Blueprint for Learning How, Tracking Team, Vulnerable Missing Person Search · Posted in: Search Books, 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
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
