Looking good versus being good
You get more attention reacting to an emergency than by quietly avoiding it, a rant on appearing to be good versus being good.
You get more attention reacting to an emergency than by quietly avoiding it, a rant on appearing to be good versus being good.
Terrible reporting on a rescued person’s donation as “repayment” has resulted in the impression that SAR teams charge for rescue: they don’t!
A comparison of the “cost per incident” of the top 16 Ground SAR teams in British Columbia by call volume as a measure of funding disparity.
Who is the busiest SAR team in BC? Using numbers from EMBC I analysed the call volumes of SAR groups in BC and came up with some interesting results.
The new map created by the District of North Van for the Knee Knacker race has some serious flaws that limit its usefulness for navigation.
Looking back through data from the last 11 years I figure Canada Day long weekend 2013 was the busiest we have had in BC.
There’s a lot of misinformation about the newly downloadable BC TRIM maps in PDF formats. They are not “apps” and they are not a replacement for paper maps.
The family of a Canadian man missing in Australia posted $100,000 reward for his recovery alive or dead. Amateurs from all over converge on site.
My friend Richard Laing of Ridge Meadows SAR has written an analysis of missing subjects with dementia in the Metro Vancouver area. View the document here.