SWIFTWATER RESCUE: The Carlson Cinch

SAR OPERATIONS: Items to carry in your 'rat pack' (ration pack)

ROPE RESCUE: How to use a CMC 'Multi Purpose Device' (MPD)

Source: This article was adapted from The Essential Technical Rescue Field Operations Guide, 4th Edition, by Tom Pendley of Desert Rescue Research in Glendale, Arizona. Copyright © 2011.All Rights Reserved. Excerpted with Expressed Written Permission. To purchase a copy of this handy, 196-page, spiral-bound, pocket-sized field guide, point your Internet browser to www.DesertRescue.com or call 1.877.434.4781.

MAN-TRACKING: How track a subject in, along, or across a waterway

Source: This article was adapted from Sign and The Art of Tracking—A Guide to Support Law Enforcement Tracking and Anti-Poaching Operations, by Christian Nellemann, UNEP/GRID, Arendal, Norway, Rapid Response; with Jack Kearney, U.S. Border Patrol, retired; Stig Nårstad, Norwegian Police; and the INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme. Copyright © 2011 by Interpol, Lyon, France; and UNEP/GRID, Arendal, Norway. Excerpted with Expressed Written Permission. All Rights Reserved.

KNOT TYING: How to tie the clove hitch, mid-rope

TICKS: How to prevent tick bites in the bush, and how to remove them

Download US CDC 'Ticks and Lyme Disease' brochure here.

DRONES: Despite finding 11 missing subjects with UAVs, FAA threatens Texas EquuSearch with arrest if they use them

From Click2Houston.com:

HOUSTON -The founder of Texas EquuSearch, Tim Miller, plans to fight the Federal Aviation Administration's attempts to prohibit the use of drones in searches for missing people. Miller said he has hired an attorney and plans to sue if the FAA if it does not back down from a recent order prohibiting the volunteer organization from using the unmanned aircraft in search operations.

"You know, we're not flying in somebody's backyard, looking at their girlfriend laying in their bikini," said Miller.

Miller said he began battling the FAA on this issue two years ago during a search for a missing girl in Indiana. Miller said during that search officials with the FAA told local law enforcement to stop EquuSearch from using a drone.

"The lead investigator said if we even take it out of its case he will arrest us," said Miller....read Click2Houston.com story here.

Source: Peace River K9 Search & Rescue Association, Inc.

GPS: Bad data upload to GLONASS satellite on April 2, 2014 results in 50-km GPS position-fix errors on England’s east coast

Don't give up your locational awareness mindset and map-and-compass skills just yet...

Read BBC story here:
Source: Michael Addiscott via SAR Talk

SWIFTWATER RESCUE: How to rig and execute the tethered, strong-swimmer rescue

Source: This article was adapted from The Essential Technical Rescue Field Operations Guide, 4th Edition, by Tom Pendley of Desert Rescue Research in Glendale, Arizona.

Copyright © 2011.

All Rights Reserved.

Excerpted with Expressed Written Permission.

To purchase a copy of this handy, 196-page, spiral-bound, pocket-sized field guide, point your Internet browser to www.DesertRescue.com or call 1.877.434.4781

SAR OPERATIONS: Confinement techniques—Look-outs, camp-ins, track traps, & tagged string lines

LAND NAVIGATION: GPS multipathing & how to counter it

ROPE RESCUE: Mirrored Systems—CMC’s MPD v Petzl’s ID

MAN-TRACKING: The Rhodesian tracking method

K-9 HANDLERS: Distractions, the handler’s arch nemesis

WILDERNESS FIRST AID: How to manage blisters

SWIFTWATER RESCUE: The defensive swimming position

LOST PERSON BEHAVIOR: Data on lost hikers

SAFETY NOTICE: Check your Petzl ZIGZAGs for cracks

Download info here.

Source: Roo Fox-Rockley via Journal of Search and Rescue (JSAR)

ROPE RESCUE: Litter rigging—The chest tie-in

LAND NAV: Free PDF downloads of USGS generation 1 & 2 quadrangles now available via Google Maps Gallery

• Gen 1 Traditional scanned paper quad download page
• Gen 2 Modern layered digital quad download page

NOTE: To access the download option for a quad, click on the green button, center-quad

SOURCE: Loren Pfau of the Alpine Rescue Team, via NASAR