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Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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Title: Shoveling in the Name of Science
Date: 2010
Authors: Zack Quine, Eeva Latosuo
Description: The fitness level of a single person rescuer is the most important factor that increases an avalanche victim‟s survival. After examining 23 peop...
Object ID: ISSW_P-088.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, fitness, experience
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Title: Will A Guest Ever Be Able To Save Your Life?
Date: 2009
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The efficiency of companion rescue with minimal training has been proven in real accidents as well as in large scale field tests where participants w...
Object ID: issw-2009-0666-0670.pdf
Keywords: companion rescue, avalanche rescue, search systems, avalanche rescue technology, rescue training
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Title: Avalanche Scenario with Double Burial the Effectiveness of Different Rescue Equipment, Specific Operational Methods and Their Benefits for Companion Rescue
Date: 2009
Authors: Hauer Othmar, Eck Markus, Schober Michael
Description: For this study a field test was carried out to determine the total time needed by independently working test persons to locate two active transmitter...
Object ID: issw-2009-0675-0680.pdf
Keywords: triple antenna beacons with marking function, beacons without marking function, three circle method, electronic probe, micro strip searching
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Title: Strategic Shoveling: The Next Frontier in Companion Rescue
Date: 2006
Authors: Bruce Edgerly, Dale Atkins
Description: With the widespread use of digital avalanche transceiver technology, search times for companion rescue have decreased significantly. Dedicated transce...
Object ID: issw-2006-522-529.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, companion rescue, shovel, probe, transceiver, beacon
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