Search and Rescue

From Citizendium
Revision as of 19:39, 20 February 2009 by imported>George Swan (add image)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
This editable Main Article is under development and subject to a disclaimer.
(PD) Photo: Hegs / wikipedia
A Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue lifeboat.

Search and Rescue is the term for act of searching for lost or stranded individual, or alternately personnel, vessels or aircraft devoted to searches. The first dedicated life-saving vessels were the product of local initiatives, in the mid eighteenth century.[1]

References

  1. Clayton Evans (2004). Rescue at Sea. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591147131. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.