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I'm on a SAR team. We literally deployed 10 people on both PLB's and Inreaches last winter. SAR people are cheap
by widforss 4y ago
I'm on a SAR team. We literally deployed 10 people on both PLB's and Inreaches last winter. SAR people are cheap
- biomcgary 4y agoSAR people may largely be volunteers, but helicopters have fairly expensive operational costs. In time-sensitive situations, it is better to have two way communications (because it keeps SAR as inexpensive as possible). See my sister comment for my wife's experience.
- widforss 4y agoThose two operations were made using snow mobiles, but yes, as soon as helicopters com into the picture, the costs skyrocket.
- danuker 4y ago> because it keeps SAR as inexpensive as possible "Hurry, but please hold the helicopter, I won't make enough money for the rest of my life to pay for it, whether I survive or not."
- circular_lights 4y agoI was wondering who foots the bill for the equipment
- widforss 4y agoIn our case, our org (Norwegian Red Cross) buy the equipment using sponsor money and the like. Then we get reimbursed by the government for using them in SAR operations. It works well enough for us to have maybe 4 snowmobiles, 2 6-wheel ATV's, a 4 person rope rescue kit, 10 TETRA phones and a car in addition to various medical equipment.
- tony_cannistra 4y agoTotally. It sounds like your team has the advantage of having a large volunteer corpus. I wish they all did.