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  2. Search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    GEA Search and Rescue Association is a group of search and rescue, ecology and social campaigners, founded in 1994, made up of volunteer members. [147] AKDF Search and Rescue Associations Federation was established in nineteen different districts. AKA [148] Search and Rescue and Emergency Aid Association (AKAY) [149] AKUT [150]

  3. Water surface searches - Wikipedia

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    Water surface searches are procedures carried out on or over the surface of a body of water with the purpose of finding lost vessels, persons, or floating objects, which may use one or more of a variety of search patterns depending on the target of the search, as the direction and rate of drift vary depending on the characteristics of the target and the water and weather conditions at the time.

  4. Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System - Wikipedia

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    Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) is a comprehensive search and rescue (SAR) planning system used by the United States Coast Guard in the planning and execution of almost all SAR cases in and around the United States and the Caribbean. SAROPS has three main components: The graphical user interface (GUI), the Environmental Data ...

  5. Urban search and rescue - Wikipedia

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    Rescuers with a victim of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake Rescue teams evacuating residents from flooded areas during Hurricane Katrina. Urban search and rescue (abbreviated as USAR [1] or US&R [2]) is a type of technical rescue operation that involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in an urban area, namely structural collapse due to natural ...

  6. Mountain rescue - Wikipedia

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    Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments. This tends to include mountains with technical rope access issues, snow, avalanches, ice, crevasses, glaciers, alpine environments and high ...

  7. FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - Wikipedia

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    Search - locating victims of a disaster by using specialized electronic equipment and tools to search for missing or trapped victims, especially rescue personnel who may be stuck inside of a collapsed structure. Rescue - extricating a victim from the location where they are trapped, usually involving removing debris from around the victim.

  8. Underwater searches - Wikipedia

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    Standard circular search pattern Circular search pattern modified to avoid twisting or fouling an umbilical or lifeline Pendulum search pattern along a wall. An underwater circular search is a procedure conducted by a diver moving around a fixed reference point, usually by swimming, at a series of distances (radii).

  9. Underwater search and recovery - Wikipedia

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    Public safety diving team members bring in a casualty Controlling an underwater search from the jetty. Underwater search and recovery is the process of locating and recovering underwater objects, often by divers, [1] but also by the use of submersibles, remotely operated vehicles and electronic equipment on surface vessels.