SAR Fundamentals/Navigation/Overview

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* Navigation is essential skill for Search and Rescue workers
* Navigation is essential skill for Search and Rescue workers
* Knowing where you are
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* Being able to plan a route to get there
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* We will get you from novice to intermediate skills.
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** using a GPS for finding your location
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Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:
Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:
* GPS waypoints, tracks
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* Legal Land Description, Road Numbering System, Municipal Approach Numbering System
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Provides an overview of the navigation objectives of SAR Fundamentals.

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Brett Wuth

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This lesson summarizes what navigation skills the students are expected to gain over the several days of SAR Fundamentals.

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  1. will be able to ...

Time Plan

Total Time: 15 minutes


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00:00

3 min

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Present Objectives

00:03

3 min

  • Navigation is essential skill for Search and Rescue workers
  • Knowing where you are
  • Being able to find yourself on a map
  • Being able to tell someone else where you are
  • Being able to describe where something is that you see
  • Understanding where you are asked to go
  • Being able to plan a route to get there

One of the most common problems in the field are searchers not being able to state where they are, followed by searcher headed in the wrong direction.


00:06

5 min

  • We will get you from novice to intermediate skills.

Intermediate skills:

  • map reading
    • being able to recognize the symbols and shadings on a topo map
    • reading the elevation and shape of land
    • choosing a route based on features of the land
    • UTM - stating a location in terms of numbers
    • measuring distance on a map
    • measuring direction on a map
    • triangulation
  • Field measurements
    • pacing distances
    • using a compass
    • using a GPS for finding your location


00:11

2 min

Advanced skills - not part of SAR Fundamentals:

  • GPS waypoints, tracks
  • latitude and longitude
  • Legal Land Description, Road Numbering System, Municipal Approach Numbering System


00:13

1 min

  • Navigation training is split over several days
  • You will lose your skills if you do not practice them.


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