Avalanche Transceivers and Tin Foil
A demonstration of the attenuation of of the signal of an avalanche transceiver by an order of magnitude when wrapped in foil; how this affects you.
Category: Blog Entry
Regular blog posts
Smart Phone and GPS
Clarifications and reiterating smart phone GPS capabilities, PLBs, and how to automate the process of determining someone’s location.
Cypress Mountain and charging for rescue
Picture credit Trevor Hawkins
Cypress Mountain has posted signage indicating anyone calling for rescue could be charged a “fee” of $1000. Why this policy is extremely misguided.
SAR in BC for UAV operators
Some resources on how Search and Rescue works in British Columbia for UAV operators.
Community Emergency Response
The concept of an Community Emergency Response team is an interesting one that could be used to search for people with dementia among other emergencies.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: the basics
QuadCopter UAV
Some basic facts about the operational use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Search and Rescue in Canada, and in BC
Current Crowdsourced SAR effort on the North Shore
Flying over Whistler Village in 2008
SAR teams on the North Shore are attempting to reproduce a crowdsourced SAR effort pioneered in 2010 on a massive 16 day long search.
Denial of grant illustrates SAR funding issues
Whistler SAR’s annual grant was denied, illustrating one of the many flaws in BC’s SAR funding model