Search and Rescue (SAR)

This SAR APP should not be used as the sole or primary means of notifying a SAR Authority of a DISTRESS or EMERGENCY situation. Your first means of notifying a SAR Authority of an emergency should be via a phone call to the said Authority or by use of an approved and registered Satellite Emergency Notification Device, commonly known as a 406 MHz beacon, an EPIRB, an ELT or a PLB. Only following this primary means of notification should SAR APP be used to alert a SAR Authority or friend. Please note that SAR APP will not send email notifications to a SAR Authority in the following SAR Regions: •Australia •Netherlands •United States of America * Note: The above mentioned SAR Authorities have requested that the SAR APP not be used in their SAR Region to notify them because they do not consider that email is an appropriate form of notification for a distress situation. One might think that in this day and age, our 24/7 rescue authorities would consider embracing s solo balloon World Circumnavigation crash near Noumea. Andrew has led teams at the highest coordination level as a SAR Mission Coordinator with the Queensland Police Service, and as Senior SAR Coordinator at the Federal level within Australia. Andrew has coordinated many SAR actions, ranging from EPIRB activations to full SAR responses involving the tasking of SAR aircraft, defense force assets, civilian personnel and volunteers. He has trained thousands of volunteer and professional crews in aviation drop supply operations and delivered SAR seminars across Australia and been reported in National media and on television.更多