June 2010
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The Times They Are a-Changin'
You might notice a few changes with this site over the next few months. We started the site using the Stack Exchange system, but unfortunately the system has had a few teething troubles since it was first created last year. This means that I can’t guarantee the future of the site on the Stack Exchange system, but the good news is that there are plenty of alternatives to Stack Exchange and I’ve...
April 2010
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This site needs you!
This week there has been a major shake up in Stack Exchange, the system which this site runs on. It has been decided that only the most active sites will now survive In the long term. The site therefore has just three months to prove it is with keeping open. My original plan of building the site and the community over 2 to 3 years has been completely torn up.
I really need your help to show that...
March 2010
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Question bounties
One of the less well know features of the SAR Knoweldge site are question bounties so I thought I’d give you a little background on waht a bounty is.
A bounty gives you the chance to invest a little bit more in a question to try and get it answered sooner, or if you are answering a question it gives you a chance to earn a little bit more reputation for answering a question that one user...
February 2010
3 posts
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Equipment reviews and reviewers
One of my main aims behind launching SAR-Knowledge is to try and improve the quality of reviews of SAR equipment, publications and services. There really is very little information out there to allow SAR team to make good informed decisions about what will suit them best. It’s great if teams can get equipment to review for themselves, but this does take effort and there is only so much any...
Thankyou to all the contributors
I had a debreif with my rescue team this weekend following a major deployment. They are always interesting experiences often with some fascinating and surprising learning points coming out the mission. I guess it is the nature of certain types of search and rescue that actual real world experience is actually quite hard to come by so there is always a huge amount of learning to be done.
One...
So what is this all about?
It was always a little surprising to me how little information on search and rescue was available on the internet. Of course nothing replaces good quality training, but some of the most enlightening training sessions I have ever taken part in have been run by organisations other than my own. Different teams and different teachers always have a different way of looking at things.
So where are the...