SAR Fundamentals/Evening 4 start-up/Content Review
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- Will a GPS work well in heavy fog?
- What does declination mean?
- How accurate (in meters) is a GPS with and without WAAS?
- After how much time does quality of searching begin to wane for an individual?
- How many active search techniques are there for searching by foot?
- If you wanted as close to 100% POD as possible, what type of search would you use?
- What does a confinement team do?
- What is a search cube?
- What additional considerations are involved in a night search?
- Can pacing be practical when measuring distance?
- What is your best survival tool?
- What are 3 major contributors to loss of water in the body for SAR workers?
- What is the inner layer of clothing used for
- What are 5 mechanisms by which your body looses heat?
- What is the minimum distance a latrine should be set up from a base camp?
- Should you drink water straight out of a stream?
- How can you determine how far away lightening is?
- Many things in your first aid kit can be improvised using other materials. Name something that can't be improvised.
- What is the first sign of hypothermia?
- Name some safety guidelines for a search near water?
- Is recovering a body an urgent matter?
- Name some items of SAR technology.
- What are the two most common animals used in SAR?
- When conducting a search of a building why must each floor be secured?
- How are multistory buildings searched?
- What is a SPOT?
- What direction should you point your antenna?
