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An interesting and somewhat related article. The Iceland rescue service gets inundated with rescue requests from tourists. There is talk of collecting "rescue t
by somberi 11y ago
An interesting and somewhat related article. The Iceland rescue service gets inundated with rescue requests from tourists. There is talk of collecting "rescue tax" from tourists.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/life-is-rescues http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/09/life-is-rescues
- username223 11y agoI read that in print (the New Yorker is one of a very small number of magazines worth a subscription). SAR in the United States is largely volunteers backed up by the military, i.e. it only works thanks to generous people and an institution that can do things like Starfish Prime [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime