🚨 Garmin reports over 3,000 inReach SOS calls in 2025—and what’s happening globally 🌍 looks pretty familiar here in BC 👀
Here, HIKERS are the group most often needing search & rescue. The top reason? Injuries (especially from slips, trips & falls), followed by getting lost or exceeding abilities.
Successful SAR mission today. Elderly lady, dementia, walked away from home yesterday on a remote island. Incredible support from water taxi moving SAR members at all hours of night, mutual aid teams, K9, neighbours and RCMP. Found her 1 km from home in dense bush just before weather turned to shit.
Hmmm…
Hmmmm, that would trigger another competition between Armée de l’Air et Marine 😉
C A L L O U T
Specialist kayak teams are en route to locate a high risk missing person in the #evesham area.
“Fo’ sure!”
With all their adventures, they would have used a lot of batteries 😉
Spoiler: in some episodes, they had the old models of #distress #beacons: the good old 121.5 transmitter on the international distress frequency 😇
My SAR Team was assisting Ridge Meadows SAR over the last 4 days trying to rescue some snowshoers on Golden Ears.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned, but mostly that the margin of safety for winter travel is much, much smaller than in the summer.
surreynowleader.com/2026/01/14/s...
A flavour of Belgitude 😉
Oh well , so when someone is blocking you, it is advertised urbi et orbi ?
That sounds… interesting
What does this mean?
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Two more #SAR payloads soon in orbit 😊
Beautiful picture indeed!
Well, that’s waking up memories!
Vibes from my youth!
Look where that lead me to 😂
Amuse toi bien !
Wait until you see the full movie - you will love it !
See ?
Never too late to start over again! 😉
Galileo SAR is the biggest contributor to the Cospas-Sarsat MEOSAR programme in terms of ground segment and space segment assets. It provides the following 2 services:
✔️Galileo SAR Forward Link Service
✔️Galileo SAR Return Link Service
#EUSpace
Diagram of how the COSPAS-SARSAT system works.
Happy Global Search and Rescue Day to all SAR volunteers! September 10 is especially relevant in BC as on this date in 1982 the first rescue from a COSPAS-SARSAT signal in the world took place! The satellite based world wide system was built by Canada, Soviet Union, France and the US; It was during a test that a activation was noted from a crashed aircraft in northern BC. Three people were rescued from the crash, the pilot spoke about his experience at SARscene 2007 in Victoria 25 years later. Even with recent developments in alternative alerting systems the COSPAS-SARSAT continues to play a major role in responding to air, marine and ground incidents.
Today is "Global Search and Rescue Day" which commemorates the first activation of the COSPAS-SARSAT system which happened in British Columbia, Canada on September 10, 1982 when a plane crashed in Northern BC.
Three people were rescued from the crash.
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#GalileoSARmeet2025 - A *VERY* SPECIAL and UNIQUE GUEST to complement the Norway's contribution to our event! “I am finished. Now it’s game over.” Norwegian fisherman who was rescued in February 2025 in Northern #Norway will travel to Prague to give a testimony of his adventure ! On Sunday February 2nd 2025 early PM, a small “sjark” fishing boat was operating close to Sørøya in the Finnmark. The weather was ugly, with waves up to 5 meters high and freezing cold water. The boat suddenly capsized, throwing the two fishermen overboard. Both tried to swim and to hang up to the bow, and Jon-Atle could barely reach to the distress beacon and activate it... #Galileo satellites (integrated in the #CospasSarsat network) forwarded the alert to the Norwegian Rescue Centre (JRCC Bodo) in about a minute. By chance, a helicopter of the 330th Rescue Squadron was training in the vicinity and could reach the position indicated in 10 minutes, while it normally would have taken an hour. They almost immediately found the wreckage. By that time, Jon-Atle had been about 20 minutes in the water. It was only a question of minutes before he would die of hypothermia. Suddenly he heard what felt like “the choir of angels”: the powerful engines of the helicopter approaching. “I suddenly relaxed, even if that sounds weird”, said Jon-Atle – “I realized it might end well after all”. Jon-Atle was airlifted to the nearest hospital, where both fishermen recovered completely. Today, while he could try to hide and forget this traumatic experience, Jon-Atle is on the contrary telling his adventure, advocating the vital need of being well-equipped. A lecture not to miss!! #GalileoSARmeet2025 EU Space - EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme (the video below shows one of the two fishermen desperately clinging to the wreckage of their boat - courtesy of (c) 330 Rescue squadron) Armáda České republiky 24.základna dopravního letectva Praha-Kbely Vzdušné síly AČR
Earlier this summer I presented at a symposium hosted by @euspa.bsky.social and @sargalileo.bsky.social where I heard how the most recent updates to the system are working, including meeting Jon-Atle, a Norwegian fisherman who was saved by the modern Galileo satellite system.
Sure, I am sending you my coordinates by Direct message :-)
Hello @tomdune.bsky.social :-D
You never bother me :-)
All questions are welcome - Please feel free to be in touch :-)
I recommend the excellent analysis of @auonsson.bsky.social on the matter.
Indeed. OSNMA (Open Service Navigation Message Authentication) has been released +/- 1 month ago.
But it might of course take some time before the industry incorporates the service in their production lines ... and that retrofit is done on existing equipments...
Introducing Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA). Online webinar on 1 September, starting at 14:00 CEST.
Meet the Speakers - Galileo OSNMA Webinar
We’re excited to share the outstanding lineup of experts who will be joining us for the upcoming webinar on the new Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) service.
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6e8275...
