Nobody could have missed the tragic incidents in Boston this week, but one thing that caught my eye was the live tweeting of what police and other emergency responders were saying over the radio, and how the police asked for…
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Mapping SAR Teams
I’ve been doing some work for the BC Search and Rescue Association, and the other day I posted by Twitter, Facebook and Google+ a prototype of the map I’m working on for them. Here is the map, embedded below. View…
SAR-Speak
The other day I came across this article on Cop-Speak, entitled Cops Talk Funny, and I recognized something about myself; I talk SAR-speak. Certainly not as bad as some, but it’s there. The word choice, how we refer to the…
Are GoPro Cameras correlated with accidents?
A friend emailed me the other day with the following question. Some friends and I were wondering if there’s a connection between people getting into difficulties in the back country, and the wearing of GoPro helmet or ski cams. The idea…
SARScene 2012 Presentation
I attended SARScene again this year (see here for last year’s presentation), and gave a presentation titled “Best Practices in Managing Geospatial Data for SAR Teams”. The idea was to present practical tips on managing “geospatial data” which is a…
Tagged with: communications, GPS, how-to, mapping, OpenStreetMap, SAR, technology
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Remains of Missing Hiker found near Terrace BC
On Friday, media around the province and the country began reporting that the remains of missing hiker, Warren Sill, had been found near New Hazelton by Terrace SAR. Being an “insider” in the SAR community, some information comes to be…
It’s not Lupus
In the TV show House, there’s an ongoing joke about Lupus. I apologize in advance if anyone has experience with this serious disease, but it’s useful for an illustration. Lupus is a disease characterized by having an large variety of…
Hypothermia Kit Conundrum
Our SAR team maintains several hypothermia treatment kits, and without going into too much detail they contain equipment for treating and transporting hypothermic patients. There various sorts of shelter, specialized waterproof subject bags, tarps, heating equipment, stoves etc. One of…
Tagged with: Equipment, feedback, gear, Hypothermia, question, rescue, SAR, search
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Update on Elliot Lake
An update on my previous post on Elliot Lake, which seemed to hit a nerve. I got hundreds of responses and feedback from various sources, broken into two groups; emergency responders, which largely agree that the political response was just that; political…
Death of two Marine SAR Volunteers in BC
Another sad day for Search and Rescue members in BC, and across Canada as word spread that two members of the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, Station 12: Halfmoon Bay, died in an accident while training in Skookumchuck Narrows.…
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