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unusual facts about Search and Rescue



Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City

The missions of CGAS Elizabeth City include search and rescue (SAR), Maritime Law enforcement, International Ice Patrol, aids to navigation support (such as operating lighthouses), and marine environmental protection (such as responding to oil spills).

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah

Air Station Savannah provides Search & Rescue(SAR) coverage 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 450 miles of shoreline from the northern border of South Carolina to Melbourne, Florida, averaging more than 250 SAR cases a year.

GippsAero GA8 Airvan

Larger operators include the US Civil Air Patrol which flies 18 Airvans for Search and Rescue operations, of which 16 carry the Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance (ARCHER) system, which can be used to search for aircraft wreckage based on its spectral signature.

Highland Emergency

Filmed aboard the search and rescue aircraft of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and HM Coastguard as well as the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) air ambulances, the show follows the teams on emergencies in the Highlands.

HS-9

The Sea Griffins continued to expand the role of the HS community by remaining on the cutting edge in such mission areas as Combat Search and rescue (CSAR), Maritime Interdiction, Surface Surveillance Coordination (SSC), and Night Vision Goggle (NVG) training.

Iroise Sea

Owing to the hazardous conditions at sea, the high density of shipping and a number of shipwrecks in recent years, the French authorities have introduced special search and rescue operations which include vessels such as the Abeille Bourbon as well as a number of large lifeboats in the ports of Douarnenez, Camaret, Le Conquet, Molène and Ushant.

RAF Kinloss

The wartime Avro Lancaster was adapted without great upheaval for anti-submarine and search and rescue duties and RAF Kinloss changed from a bomber training unit, to a Coastal Command base training maritime aircrew.

Roskilde Airport

On the airport grounds there is additionally a separate area with a hangar and helipad, for use by the search and rescue Eskadrille 722, which deploys an AW101 Merlin rescue helicopter on permanent alert to cover the area of Sjælland and the Baltic Sea.

Trail

Ski trail (aka Piste) networks that criss-cross a mountainside will often change names at intersections such that emergency services like Search and rescue or Ski Patrol can communicate more precisely about where they are and where they are going.

Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel

The eight to ten vessels of this class, specially designed to operate in the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, will replace the João Coutinho and Baptista de Andrade class corvettes — currently being decommissioned —, and the small patrol boats of the Cacine class in their primary fisheries protection role (SIFICAP) and in their search and rescue (SAR) roles.


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176th Wing

However, the tradition of Arctic search and rescue would continue; Alaska Senator Ted Stevens introduced legislation creating a new search and rescue unit for the Alaska Air National Guard.

AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant

On 13 July 2006, a CH-149 of 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron crashed into the waters of Chedabucto Bay off the coast of Canso, Nova Scotia while flying in heavy fog during a search and rescue exercise with a Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary vessel.

Baengnyeongdo

In December 1951 two Sikorsky H-5s of the USAF 3rd Air Rescue Squadron were based on the island and would forward deploy daily to Chodo Airport to operate search and rescue missions before being permanently deployed to Chodo in January 1952.

Catalina affair

The second aircraft to be shot down was a Swedish Air Force Tp 47, a Catalina flying boat, involved in the search and rescue operation for the missing DC-3.

CCGS Cape Caution

On September 15, 2005, Geoff Regan, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, said: "Search and rescue lifeboats, like this one, are key to our maritime search and rescue program. Their strategic placement along our coasts provides the highest level of protection for both commercial and recreational vessels."

Craig B. Lloyd

Lloyd commanded Munro in the search and rescue of the crab fishing vessel Ocean Challenger, in the midst of the Bering Sea; which was documented by the Deadliest Catch reality TV show on the Discovery Channel.

Denise Deegan

Denise Deegan lives in Wales, and is a former member of the North East Wales Search and Rescue team (NEWSAR) and the Welsh Border Morris Dancers.

Edward Beck

Beck also serves as an international Vice President of ZAKA, Israel's international search and rescue group who are first responders to natural disasters, terrorism and other man-made disasters throughout the world, such as Katrina, Japan, Haiti, Mumbai, Spain, 9/11 and other events throughout the world.

Eight Days to Live

Eight Days to Live is a 2006 television film produced by CTV about a mother who organizes a search and rescue for her son who drives off the road in the Northern Fraser Valley of British Columbia.

Great Union Party

A large search and rescue operation was conducted in the mountainous area around Göksun in Kahramanmaraş Province.

Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat

On Dec.24, 2009, an Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat, BRP Nueva Vizcaya (SARV 3502), along with BRP Pampanga (SARV 003)and MT Tug Habagat (TB-271) was deployed to Cavite to conduct search and rescue operations when MV Catalyn B, a wooden hull motorized vessel collided with the fishing vessel FV Anatalia and sank some 2.8 nautical miles northwest of Limbones Island at 2:25 a.m.

Isle of Man Civil Defence Corps

The joint organisation maintains the island's only trained SARDA (Search and Rescue Dog Association) dog and handler.

Jim McCombe

In 1974, he chose to go to CFB Summerside CFB Summerside, flying the De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo for Search and Rescue and MedEvac duties, continuing until his early request for release from the military in response to policies within the RCAF on unification and other issues.

John C. Acton

Next he served as Commanding Officer, USCGC Cape Henlopen, a search and rescue patrol boat in Petersburg, Alaska, and then completed his active duty at Vessel Traffic Service, New Orleans.

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

;HH-2C: Search and rescue helicopter, armed with a single Minigun in a chin-mounted turret and two waist mounted 7.62mm machine guns, six conversions.

Leeway

The Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) and the Norwegian SAR model compute the net trajectory of search objects and provide a probability density area based upon Monte Carlo methods.

Mari Hulman George

In 2001, the Indiana Department of Homeland Security renamed their search-and-rescue training area at Camp Atterbury the Mari Hulman George Search and Rescue Training Center, in recognition of her contributions to the care of animals displaced and otherwise affected by disasters.

Maritime Security Agency

The agency also operates three Britten-Norman Defender aircraft for the purposes of search and rescue and navigation.

Matthew Stocke

Stocke's voice can be heard on the original cast recordings for Giant, The Wedding Singer, The Boy from Oz, and The Full Monty, plus The Dirty Sock Funtime Band's debut album "The Search and Rescue of Genius Backpack" by Create-A-Play and BC/EFA's "Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure" Volumes 3, 5, & 8.

Mount Feathertop

Sixty searchers were deployed in the field by Monday evening, 31 August 2009, including Victorian Police Search and Rescue, Bush Search and Rescue and the State Emergency Service.

MV Hjaltland

On 23 August 2013, MV Hjaltland was diverted from its normal route to assist with search and rescue efforts following the crash of a Super Puma helicopter two miles off the Shetland coast close to Sumburgh.

Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

During Operation Desert Storm, aircraft assigned to the 354th initially flew against early-warning radar and Scud missile sites, as well as search-and-rescue missions of downed coalition pilots.

Naval Station Sangley Point

The Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard Ship Nettle played a vital role in search-and-rescue operations and in the maintenance of remote long-range aid-to navigation (LORAN) stations located throughout the Philippines.

Operation Emmanuel

During the first phase two Russian-made MI-17 helicopters from the Venezuelan Military Search and Rescue Team flew into Colombia on December 27, 2007 at 1530 hours with the permission of the President of Colombia and with the International Red Cross (IRC) insignia for a humanitarian mission.

RAF Search and Rescue Force

In the UK, maritime search and rescue is coordinated by HM Coastguard, while land-based operations are usually coordinated by the local Police force.

The military and civil roles are shared with the Sea King helicopters of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, while the civil search and rescue role is also shared with the helicopters of HM Coastguard.

The colour of the location mark indicates the agency providing helicopter response (blue: Fleet Air Arm, yellow: RAF Search and Rescue Force, red: Her Majesty's Coastguard).

Rampart Search and Rescue

They currently have seven bloodhounds, that's more than most search and rescue teams in the United States.

Their Explorer post 1754 of the Learning for Life program with the Boy Scouts of America train alongside the adult members in all aspects of search and rescue and public safety.

Rampart Search and Rescue (K-9) search dogs respond to search and rescue (SAR) incidents.

Sagar Prahari Bal

The force was constituted after the Mumbai terror attacks and the main duty of the force is to guard against such terrorist attacks by patrolling the coastline and also to conduct search and rescue operations.

SATENA

Since its creation, the airline has performed many public services on behalf of the Colombian people, having provided service during crises in the country's history, as was the case of the Huila and Cauca earthquake of June 6, 1994, when SATENA performed search and rescue operations, airlifted local residents, as well as transporting needed medicines, foods and aid in general to the site of the tragedy.

Sea King helicopter

Westland Sea King, an anti-submarine warfare and search and rescue helicopter operated by the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Indian Navy, based on the Sikorsky SH-3

Thad Allen

On September 5, 2005, while serving as Coast Guard Chief of Staff, Allen was appointed deputy to Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael D. Brown by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and placed in charge of Hurricane Katrina search-and-rescue and recovery efforts.

Urban Search and Rescue Tennessee Task Force 1

Urban Search and Rescue Tennessee Task Force or TN-TF1 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Memphis, Tennessee.