SAR Times (Ryan)

It's live. NORTHING is out now — e-book and paperback, both at the link. A cutter, the Arctic ice, and a crew running out of options. Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered. a.co/d/04NWRxeY

📊 Probability of Success = Probability of Area × Probability of Detection. A search can be thorough and still fail if it is looking in the wrong place. Coordinators balance both. #SearchTheory #SARscience

🕐 Clocks went back across most of Europe overnight. Earlier darkness catches walkers and climbers off guard. A headlamp weighs almost nothing and turns a forced night out into a walk back. #ClocksGoBack #MountainSafety

📏 Effective sweep width measures how well a given sensor detects a given object in given conditions. A searcher in thick brush and a helicopter over open water have very different sweep widths for the same person. #SARscience #SearchTheory

I wrote a book. NORTHING (True North: Book One) — a Coast Guard thriller set in the Chukchi Sea, above the Arctic Circle. Out Monday, October 26 at 5 PM Pacific. E-book is up for pre-order now; paperback lands the same day. a.co/d/04NWRxeY

🦌 Autumn hunting seasons across the Northern Hemisphere bring their own callouts: disorientation, falls from tree stands, and cold exposure. Hunters leave trails on purpose, which changes how searches for them are planned. #HunterSafety #SAR

SAR Times Weekly #027 11 missing after Baja California boat capsizes, shark bites reported; Mount Shasta climber rescued after two nights sartimes.com/sar-times-we...

🏔️ Modern avalanche transceivers all transmit on 457 kHz, an international standard, so one brand can find another. Northern Hemisphere avalanche season is coming. Practice searches before the snow does. #Avalanche #Backcountry

🧭 Lost person behavior research, built largely on Robert Koester's ISRID database, sorts subjects by category: hiker, hunter, child, person with dementia, and more. Each category has its own patterns of distance and where people are found. #LostPersonBehavior #ISRID

SAR Times joins IASARC Same editor, same standards, same free newsletter. What changes is the organization standing behind it. sartimes.com/sar-times-jo... #sar #newsletter #searchandrescue #iasarc #sartimes

🏖️ Spring is arriving in the Southern Hemisphere, and surf lifesaving patrols are returning to beaches in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Volunteer lifesavers are the first line of water rescue on many coasts. #SurfLifeSaving #WaterSafety

𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗚-𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 https://sartimes.com/earning-the-patch-what-it-actually-takes-to-become-an-insarag-classified-rescue-team/ #SAR #𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗚

📍 In search planning, the datum is the most probable location of the search object, corrected for drift over time. It can be a point, a line, or an area. The rest of the plan builds from it. #SARplanning #IAMSAR

🌊 Leeway is drift caused by wind acting on the exposed part of an object. A person in the water, a life raft, and a capsized hull all drift differently. Drift models depend on getting the object type right. #SARscience #Drift

🏗️ #OTD 1989: The Loma Prieta earthquake struck Northern California, collapsing a section of Oakland's Cypress Street Viaduct onto the deck below. That same year, FEMA established the U.S. National Urban Search and Rescue Response System. #USAR #Earthquake

🚨 ICAO and IAMSAR define three emergency phases: Uncertainty (INCERFA), Alert (ALERFA), and Distress (DETRESFA). The phase drives how fast and how hard the system responds. #AviationSAR #IAMSAR

SAR Times Weekly #026 139 dead in Djibouti boat sinking; Coast Guard ends La Jolla kayaker search; fire forces Gulf rescue of 46 #sR #maritime #sinking #newsletter sartimes.com/sar-times-we...

📡 RCC, MRCC, ARCC, JRCC: a Rescue Coordination Centre can handle maritime cases, aeronautical cases, or both (joint). The person running a given case is the SAR Mission Coordinator, or SMC. #SARcoordination #IAMSAR

🗺️ The world's oceans are divided into search and rescue regions (SRRs), each with a responsible rescue coordination centre. The 1979 SAR Convention set up that architecture so no stretch of sea is left without a coordinator. #SARConvention #IMO

I'm super stoked.

🌍 Oct 13 is the UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. Warning systems, building codes, and land-use rules decide what SAR teams face when the event arrives. Response capacity and risk reduction are the same conversation. #DRRDay #SAR

⛏️ #OTD 2010: Late on Oct 12, the Fénix 2 capsule began lifting the 33 miners trapped about 700 m underground at Chile's San José mine. All 33 reached the surface by the night of Oct 13, after 69 days below ground. #Chile #MineRescue

Nepal can’t catch a break. Flooding from a landslide and dam failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck86zppejjw3o

📘 The IAMSAR Manual is published jointly by IMO and ICAO. Volume I covers organization and management, Volume II mission coordination, Volume III mobile facilities. It is the closest thing maritime and aeronautical SAR have to a shared playbook. #IAMSAR #SAR

🧠 Today is World Mental Health Day. SAR work carries a cumulative load: long searches, recoveries, families waiting at the trailhead. Peer support and post-incident check-ins belong in the SOPs, not only in the after-action conversation. #WorldMentalHealthDay #SAR

A reminder that El Niño is no joke. We’re not hearing of any major California storms right now, but someone forgot to tell the Pacific Ocean. #elnino #stormdamage #california www.instagram.com/reel/DeR8L7y...

How the 2025 IAMSAR Manual Is Shaping the Future of SAR Coordination https://sartimes.com/sixteen-people-and-the-worlds-sar-playbook-inside-the-iamsar-update-cycle/ #sar #IAMSAR #global

Wait, what’s this? A SAR specific jobs page? Yes. Yes it is. Check out the SAR Times beta site! #hiring #jobs #sar #employment beta.sartimes.com/job-watch/

All 99 survivors, including 29 minors and 27 women, have safely disembarked in #Naples. Three days ago, #OceanViking teams rescued 101 people from two rubber boats in distress after days and nights at sea. A pregnant woman was evacuated to Lampedusa, accompanied by her husband.

M7.7 Earthquake - 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama https://sartimes.com/m7-7-earthquake-12-km-wsw-of-pitaloza-arriba-panama/

@sartimes.com that time of year again where your tire pressure starts to drop due to the colder temps. Heat expands/Cold contracts. 🛞 Prepare for it before the ❄️ 🥶🌨🧊 arrives #PumpThemUp

SAR Times Weekly #025 https://sartimes.com/sar-times-weekly-025-2/

Typhoon Koguma (No. 2629) - JMA Western Pacific tracking https://sartimes.com/typhoon-koguma-no-2629-jma-western-pacific-tracking/

Red Alert - Tropical Cyclone SIMON-26 https://sartimes.com/red-alert-tropical-cyclone-simon-26/

Monthly Regulatory Meetings for October 2026 https://sartimes.com/monthly-regulatory-meetings-for-october-2026/

Sixteen People and the World's SAR Playbook: Inside the IAMSAR Update Cycle https://sartimes.com/sixteen-people-and-the-worlds-sar-playbook-inside-the-iamsar-update-cycle/

This is concerning, not just from a SAR aspect, but a safety one, too. While I primarily focus on SAR, the fact that no organization has taken credit for these attacks is what worries me the most. From a purely security standpoint, rogue actors are a loose cannon. www.euronews.com/2026/10/06/d...

Typhoon Choi-wan (No. 2627) - JMA Western Pacific tracking sartimes.com/typhoon-choi...

Typhoon Nolo (No. 2628) - JMA Western Pacific tracking https://sartimes.com/typhoon-nolo-no-2628-jma-western-pacific-tracking/

Yesterday, on the second day of deployment for our monitoring aircraft Albatross Uno, our crew spotted a black rubber boat carrying around 20 people. The sponsons were already partially deflated, placing those on board at immediate risk. People were later rescued by @sea-eye.org 5.

🧡 The Coast Guard has been modernizing its SAR policy in 2026 - the most significant overhaul in over 30 years. Watch sartimes.com for updates. #USCG #SARpolicy

The excitement, that’s not very fun, continues for the West Coast amid El Niño’s patterns. www.wsoctv.com/news/nationa...

🎗️ 90 days of SAR facts done! SAR teams - land, sea, air, and urban - respond every hour of every day. Support them. Train with them. Be ready. #SAR #SARTimes

🌊 Maritime SAR Fact: A Mayday call on VHF Channel 16 is monitored by the Coast Guard and commercial vessels 24/7. Know how to transmit one. #Mayday #VHF #MarineSafety

SAR Times Weekly #024 41 dead in DR Congo boat capsize; Indonesia ferry toll climbs to 71; Himlung avalanche leaves 12 missing in Nepal sartimes.com/sar-times-we... #sar #searchandrescue #newsletter

🍁 October brings early snow to high elevations. SAR teams in mountain states begin transitioning to winter protocols - avalanche gear, snowmobiles, skis. #WinterSAR

📊 SAR coordination is the most neglected component of search and rescue. Tactics mean nothing without the architecture to align people, plans, and resources. #SARcoordination

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀: 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝘁 The polarization of SAR in the Med has taken yet another turn https://sartimes.com/the-rescue-region-nobody-wants-mediterranean-sar-after-the-eu-pact/ #SAR #mediterranean

🚁 SAR Fact: The Sikorsky HH-3F 'Pelican' helicopter served the Coast Guard from 1968-1994. Its long-range capability transformed offshore SAR. #USCG #SARAviation

🐕 Air scent dogs work off-lead, covering large areas by detecting any human scent - not a specific person's. Trailing dogs follow one individual's scent. #K9SAR #AirScent