SARWorld – Another Phoenix rising from the ashes?
A quick plug today for a new article on the SARWorld website. David Housley from Midshires Search and Rescue has written a piece on outdoor skills and search and rescue, exploring the use of tracking and “natural navigation” within lowland search teams. Well worth a read, and feel free to join in the debate and [...]
May 17, 2011
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Robert Bradley · 
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Tags: ALSAR, Midshires, Natural Navigation, SAR Training, SARworld, Tracking, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Time to do more me SAR stuff … ?!
Last night I resigned from UKLSI. This might have come as a shock to a few people, to a few others it was a long time in coming. As I explained in my resignation letter; …Â I am hoping to start a Phd later this year. I should have spent the last couple of months writing [...]
April 8, 2011
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Tags: Phd, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Research, Search Thoughts
Tracking in Lowland Search and Rescue
I said that lots of things came up during the latest UKLSI Lowland Search and Rescue Courses that I went to this weekend and tracking is another one. Anyone, who has in the past read my blog, will know I have a great admiration for trackers and tracking as a tool for search. So, it [...]
March 23, 2011
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Tags: Ian 'Max' Maxwell, Mantracking, Search and Rescue Tracking, ShadowHawk Tracking and Survival School, Tracking, Tracking Skills Course, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Links, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Inspiring Search and Rescue Courses
I had the pleasure this weekend of teaching on yet another excellent UKLSI lowland search and rescue course. There are so many comments that can be made that I think several posts this week will be referring back to the weekend, but the one thing that really sticks in my mind is the inspiration I [...]
March 22, 2011
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Tags: ALSAR, Basic Search Techniques Course, Best Kept Secret, Lowland Search Technician, Lowland Search Volunteers, SAR Volunteers, Search Technician, Super Heroes, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Courses, Search Thoughts, Search Training
Searching in the Dark
You may remember a long while back me writing a short news article introducing a Specialist Night / Low Light Search Technician Certification Course from Gary Foo. Several comments were made at the time, with Jennie Webster making the valid point that; Maybe explicit courses such as this would make it more obvious that ALSAR teams can [...]
January 27, 2010
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Tags: ACPO, ALSAR, Bob Koester, Ed Johnson, Gary Foo, Greg Fuller, Jennie Webster, Misper, Missing Person Search, Night Search, Night Searching, POD, POS, Rrobert J Koester, Search Team Leader, Search Technician, UKLSI · Posted in: Search Thoughts
