Shephard Search and Rescue 2010
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2010-04-21
to 2010-04-22 |
| Contact Name | info@shephard.co.uk |
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Shephard's Search and Rescue 2010 will provide the largest international gathering of SAR experts in Europe. The event will cover SAR and CSAR in the four environments - air, maritime, mountain and urban.
Conference Programme
| Keynote address |
| Admiral the Lord Boyce GCB, OBE DL, Chairman Royal National Lifeboat Institution, UK, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Staff |
| Opening address |
| Captain Roderick Johnson, HM Chief Coastguard and Assistant Director Coastal Safety, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, UK |
| SAR and CSAR top speakers include: |
| Professor Scott MacKineon, Memorial University St. John’s Canada, Canada Dr Roderick J Ørner, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK and Director, ForceMajeureMaritime, UK and Norway Colonel Steven Hadley MD, US Air Force Pilot-Physician, Ophthalmologist, Special Operations Consultant, US Air Force, USA Conrad Allen, Managing Director, Urban SERE, UK Paul Miller and Colonel Steve Shephard, Joint Personnel Recovery Training, Joint Forces Command, USA |
Over the last decade the rapid advance of technology has brought with it the convergence of search and rescue operations in many developed nations. Developing nations too are learning lessons quickly from those who already have the sophisticated tools for all-terrain SAR. It is becoming clear that the ‘search’ element of search and rescue is reducing through the impact of location and communications technology and that there is more emphasis being placed on the means of rescue.
Helicopters with greater speed and endurance and high speed rescue craft enhance the modern SAR armoury. In the Offshore Industry in particular there have been significant developments with the introduction of their own SAR fleets either acting independently or supporting the nation’s SAR services. Tackling Fires at sea is also developing with specialized Marine Incident Response Groups (MIRGS) being established. Both these aspects will be included in SAR 2010.
The important area of ‘Human Factors’ will be tackled at SAR 2010 with prominent psychologists in the fields of survival and cold water-shock and the psychology of the journalist from an experienced SAR press man.
The use of simulation for training is becoming more common and the maritime world is beginning to mirror what has happened in aviation. There have been significant developments in FRC simulation and for the offshore industry developments in davit and free-fall lifeboat simulation – these will be introduced into SAR 2010.
In the military world there have been improvements too in combat SAR with the increased use of unmanned vehicles for surveillance and detection both on land and in the air. There have been development programmes introducing new aircraft and vessels within military regimes. SAR 2010 will look at developments in this field. We will also have presentations on real-life combat SAR missions.
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