Date: 09 Feb 2004
Time: 12:34
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary will host its fifth International SAR Competition in Portsmouth, Virginia from 5-6 November 2004. ISAR is an annual event between civilian volunteer members of the Coast Guard Auxiliaries of the United States and Canada. Each nation has six teams, each of which will be challenged to demonstrate competence in the skills required to successfully accomplish a maritime Search & Rescue (SAR) mission. ISAR 2004 features nine separate, competitive events that are designed to test the volunteers’ ability to plan, communicate and execute a maritime SAR mission. Each team will compete in events such as chart work, search planning, on-water rescue, emergency dewatering pump operation, communications, and other mission-essential SAR tasks. The ISAR competition will finish with an Awards Banquet at the Renaissance Hotel that will recognize the 2004 International Champion along with awards to each National Champion and to the Best Team in each individual event. At the conclusion of the evening, the ISAR flag will be passed to the Canadian Host for the 2005 ISAR Competition. For more details, please access www.internationalsar.com
Date: 20 Mar 2003
Time: 15:05
The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of National Defence and Lead Minister for Search and Rescue, has approved search and rescue projects for 2003-2004. The projects will be funded from the New Search and Rescue Initiatives Fund, managed by the National Search and Rescue Secretariat.
The Fund improves search and rescue efforts through state-of-the-art equipment, technology, research, prevention programmes and training. With an annual budget of Can.$8.1 million, the Fund supports search and rescue projects that enhance air, marine and ground search and rescue activities in Canada. Since 1988, Can.$120 million has been invested in over 700 projects.
"Many of this year's projects are innovative in terms of advancing Canada's search and rescue capability in alerting, searching and responding," said Minister McCallum. "Others focus more on the prevention side, helping to reduce the need for search and rescue."
For more details, see our next newsletter.