SAR Fundamentals/Search techniques

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== Outline ==
 
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=== Search techniques ===
 
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* searcher cube
 
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* clue awareness (see lesson plan)
 
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Don't use term: hasty search, hasty team
 
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=== Type 1 search ===
 
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1 hr
 
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Type 1: speed
 
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* hustle
 
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* look in obvious places
 
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* calling
 
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Type 1 has changed a little since we first learned it. The focus
 
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is much more on speed. Getting to where the subject might be fast.
 
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Because it ends the search quickly. Because it's where they can't
 
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wait to be found later -- e.g. washed up on the water's edge. So
 
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hustle at a speed that can be maintained for the entire assignment.
 
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A fast walk, maybe even a jog. Calling. Often a trail sweep.
 
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But all members on the trail. None in the bush on the side -- that
 
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would slow them down. Typically one focusing left, one focusing
 
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right, maybe a third focusing ahead. Looking for the obvious --
 
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"There she is! In the middle of the trail, waiting for us." If
 
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you're too thorough in a Type 1 search, you're too slow. Some groups
 
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set up deliberate hard-to-find clues when practicing Type 1 and if
 
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they're found they know the searchers are being too thorough.
 
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We avoid calling Type 1 Searches a "Hasty Search" now because of
 
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confusion with the term Hasty Team which doesn't necessary imply Hasty
 
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Searches.
 
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Basically it's explaining what a Type 1 search is. Then having a
 
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team run a Type 1 search along the creek trail system and through
 
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Dilmer Park (the small creek side park just east of the old water
 
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treatment plant). The organizer may have set up some clues Saturday
 
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morning.
 
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See the [[:Image:2010-03-07 14 46 28u-scan.pdf|map of the exercise area]]
 
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=== Type 2 search ===
 
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Type 2: efficient
 
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* purposeful wandering
 
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* critical spacing
 
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* sound sweep
 
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=== Type 3 search ===
 
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Type 3: effective
 
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* grid search
 
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* arms width apart
 
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* spontaneous volunteers
 
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=== Type 4 search ===
 
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Type 4
 
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* fine search
 
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* [http://pcsar.dyndns.org:8080/mediawiki/index.php?title=Image:Members:2012-02-14_05_33_13u-scan.pdf&page=6]
 
== Question bank ==
== Question bank ==
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Revision as of 11:10, 18 February 2013

Time

3.25 hr

Although this material itself is 3.25 hr it's commonly combined with 1 hr Compass Practical and taught in rotating stations over 4.5 hr (one afternoon).




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