Sea to Sky Director
For those who haven’t heard I am running for the BC Search and Rescue Association Regional Director for the Sea to Sky.
Author: Michael Coyle
SARDay 3 through 36
Wow. I really thought that I’d be able to reproduce the SARDay posts this year, but it turns out a lot has changed. The first is that I’m heavily involved in designing and building my team’s new Mobile Command Centre and this is essentially …
Would signs help?
Would signs indicating how many people die in gullies on the North Shore each year help inform people about the dangers of skiing beyond the ropes?
Funding announcement this week
Some initial comments on the 10 million funding announcement for BCSARA today. Putting the money where it belongs First off, a 10 million dollar disbursement from the government to the BC Search and Rescue Association puts right up front the message …
“Malfunctioning” Satellite messengers
In the past year I’ve heard of two situations where the improper use of a satellite emergency notification device (SEND) such as an DeLorme InReach or SPOT Messenger have caused SAR to be called out to search. In both cases I suspect user …
Update on UAV use for SAR in British Columbia
Not a UAV, right Peter?
The following clarification on the use of UAVs was issued by Emergency Management BC a few weeks ago; it has important implications for SAR teams considering using UAVs. This is a significant development on project I’ve been working on for the past few …
SARDay 2: Dealing with Death
Over the new years long weekend our team was called out to assist Ridge Meadows SAR for a missing person in Golden Ears Park. Unfortunately the task ended in a fatality. Since I decided to try “vlogging” (Video Blogging) this year, I …
SARDay
The mobile command centre I'm helping to build.
In 2010 I started a series of posts where I blogged about everything related to SAR that I did in one year. I also added up all of the hours spent on training, tasks and other SAR related things. I …
Most popular posts 2015
The most popular posts on my blog for the year 2015 are, with one exception, posts that I wrote in previous years. I don’t know what that says about my blogging this year – perhaps I am getting worse or …
URL Redirection Rant
A few months back I had to deal with a “webmaster” on a national site that deals with public safety information. They had some very critical public safety information at a link and literally hundreds of web sites linked to …