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OUR TEAM
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TRAINING
Lions Bay Search
and Rescue maintains a team of approximately 30 members all of whom
are enthusiastic outdoors people and active in the outdoors. Our
team focuses on mountain travel and rescue skills which are matched
to the local terrain found in the Howe Sound corridor and surrounding
area. The team's skills are constantly being updated and honed through
regular team training exercises and organized courses. Most weeks,
summer and winter, will find the team out in the local area practicing
these skills in all conditions.
All members are required
to complete a 75 hour Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) course, designed
to teach the skills necessary to safely and efficiently function
in a SAR operation. Topics covered include; proficiency in navigation,
survival, radio communications, rope management, tracking, shoreline
searching safety and searching techniques. Members attend weekly
training sessions to ensure that these skills are kept up to date.
To
develop further skills there are a number of courses available through
the Justice Institute of BC. These courses include the following:
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Ground Search Team Leader & Instructor
• Mountain Rescue
I & II
• Rope Rescue Team Member & Leader
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SAR Management
• Organized Avalanche Response Team Member
& Leader
• Tracking
• Swiftwater Search Operations
• Swiftwater Rescue Technician
Team members may
be general all-rounders in these skill areas or may be specialists
on one or more of them. All training conforms to the standards determined
by PEP and is standardized province wide, so that when the team
is called upon to provide mutual aid to neighboring teams the qualifications
of each searcher can be quickly determined.
More information
on training programs can be found on the website
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