I’m slowly getting back to a reality with internet access and computers to use. Apologies it has taken longer than expected…

Whilst I’ve been away, however, I’ve had time to re-evaluate my use of this website. Websites live and die through constant use; unless they are updated regularly they do not grow. This takes time and effort.

I have been happy to do this for this website for the past few months and it grew and hopefully people found it useful. However, the format of the website meant that any debates that were sparked were sometimes difficult to follow, and these were intermingled with useful “articles” or “features” and news items from different teams and copies of my own presentations.

So I have decided to migrate a lot of my “posts” to SAR World.

On here I hope to write daily news items, keep a directory of UK SAR organisations – from all SAR disciplines, add useful “features” and “articles”, maybe have equipment reviews and links to suppliers etc. All this will go on the “main” SAR world website, which in time will probably be funded by SAR equipment suppliers adverts. [In time any "profits" from this would go to a SAR World trust to be distributed to UK SAR groups!] I’m hopeful that this will be up and running sometime around April. [In time if all goes well this might extend to become a worldwide SAR resource!]

All the while everyone can join in the debates on the already existing SAR World Forum. Here I will post those thoughts likely to spark debate – as this is a much better format to discuss ideas and thoughts. For today’s thought/topic click here…

This website will remain up and running but will be limited to my presentations and links to SAR World debates / news / features.

Hopefully, in this way, I can improve on what has been started here.