STAND ALONE SKILLS, OR TECHNIQUES TO COMPLEMENT TRADITIONAL SEARCH PRACTICE?

Midshires Search and Rescue (MSAR) recently undertook training in various outdoor skills courtesy of Woodland Ways (http://www.woodland-ways.co.uk/) The training posed questions on what outdoor skills in addition to basic search techniques may be of use; how often they would be of use and how do we best use them to support a search.

When is a successful search not a successful search?

I had a good find last week!

I absolutely hate the idea of going into details of searches online so I won't but as the Search Manager said following the search; "a life was saved tonight!"

So surely it was a successful search?

The 17th annual SARSCENE conference was held in beautiful Montreal, Quebec on September 27-28, 2010.  This national search and rescue conference drew Canadians from all regions of the country including British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Maritimes as well as international delegates from New Zealand, Ireland, USA and the UK.

It has been a while since we profiled a SAR team on here, so I asked John Kinsman, PR Officer of the High Access Rescue Team based in Scotland to tell us about his team...

Volunteers from the Sussex Search and Rescue Unit (SusSAR) have been congratulated by Sussex Police for completing a NCFE Level 2 qualification in Dementia Awareness to help with vulnerable missing person searches.

Fundraising is a difficult subject.

There are so many worthy causes and only a limited pot of money to go around.

So inevitably many SAR teams find themselves in competition with each other, as well as all those other charities.

OK, I admit it. I've been at the Tom Peters' books again.

For those that don't know me I have this habit of reading stuff; any stuff. And I have picked up this habit of reading Tom Peters' books.

Now I am not and never will be a businessman. I do not have the skills (and probably more importantly the personality) to make money in business. But I often find little nuggets of great stuff in all these different book subjects. And sometimes, like today, it feeds an idea...

SARworld is pleased to announce the winner of our photo competition. 

There were a number of excellent entries covering a wide range of SAR disciplines however, Scott Lee's picture of his search dog, Lopez, pipped the others in the judges mind to win the competition and win Scott a copy of Gary Foo's Emergency Response & Search & Rescue.