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Locating lost people using smart phones

Posted on 05/03/2013 by Michael Coyle — 4 Comments ↓

A few weeks back I managed a search for two people lost near Buntzen Lake. After we rescued them, I learned that one of them had a smart phone with a GPS (in this case, an iPhone), but neither subject…

Smart Phones and Battery Life

Posted on 15/09/2011 by Michael Coyle — No Comments ↓

I’ve written previously about how you shouldn’t use smart phones for backcountry navigation. In that article I made some claims about battery life. My article was reposted (not my me) in a forum, and some of the replies to that…

SMS and Search and Rescue

Posted on 02/07/2009 by Michael Coyle — 1 Comment ↓

Well it finally happend, and frankly I’m suprised that it toook this long. A pair of subjects we looked for all of last night and part of today initiated the search by sending an SMS (Text) message. I’m sure this…