http://www.metafilter.com/tags/selfrescue Posts tagged with 'selfrescue' at MetaFilter. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:33:44 -0800 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:33:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76100/How%2DTo%2DFind%2DYourself%2DIn%2DOne%2DEasy%2DStep Approximately two years ago, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim">James Kim died</a> after he and his family were stranded, snowbound, in their car on the Oregon coast (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/56730/Mother-and-children-found-James-Kim-still-missing">Previously</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/56784/The-Loss-of-James-Kim">previously</a>, and (selflink) <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/56804/Becoming-A-Lion-In-Winter">previously</a>). But what if he'd had a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Position-Indicating_Radio_Beacon">Personal Locator Beacon</a> (PLB)? PLBs are a subset of emergency locator transmitters, which have been in mandatory use on aircraft <a href="http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/regulatory/elt.html">since 1973</a>. Somewhat more recently, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/8754/">Mo Nickels posted in 2001</a> on the <a href="http://www.cospas-sarsat.org/">COSPAS-SARSAT</a> program. Founded in 1982, it's still going strong twenty-six years later, as you can read in <a href="http://www.cospas-sarsat.org/Documents/rDocs.htm">their reports on rescues</a>. In 2003, PLBs <a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s1168.htm">became available for nationwide civilian use</a>: prior to that time, only <a href="http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/akplb.html">Alaskans could use them</a>. According to ACR, a major PLB manufacturer, <a href="http://www.acrelectronics.com/alerts/plb08.htm">PLB use has exploded</a> since the Kim tragedy in 2006. As of October, 2008, <a href="http://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/">NOAA credits emergency beacons with helping to save almost six thousand people in the US and over twenty-four thousand people worldwide, including 236 people so far this year</a>. You can <a href="http://www.plbrentals.com/">rent</a> <a href="http://www.acrelectronics.com/rental/rental.htm">them</a>, you can <a href="http://www.google.com/products?q=personal+locator+beacon&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS234GB234&um=1&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title">buy them</a>, and, most importantly, you can <a href="http://www.equipped.org/faq_plb/default.asp">find out how well they work</a> from the gearheads at <a href="http://www.equipped.org">Equipped.org</a>. Finally, if you already own a PLB, you can <a href="https://beaconregistration.noaa.gov/rgdb/">register yours with NOAA</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76100 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:33:44 -0800 camping emergency gadgets gps hiking noaa outdoorsafety personallocatorbeacon plb preparation rescue satellite selfrescue snow wintertravel scrump http://www.metafilter.com/56804/Becoming%2DA%2DLion%2DIn%2DWinter <a href="http://beprepared.com/article.asp?ai=28">Making</a> an <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/cars/make-an-emergency-car-kit-189179.php">emergency car kit</a> for <a href="http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:8njCsPnujPMJ:www.public.iastate.edu/~auryn/Weather/Documents/EmergencyCarKit.pdf+emergency+car+kit+snow&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4">road trips</a>, especially in <a href="http://www.co.stearns.mn.us/3578.htm">winter conditions</a>. <br><br> <a href="http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/transport/roads/winter_travel.htm">How</a> to <a href="http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=186&q=236050">travel</a> <a href="http://www.redcross.org/news/hs/holidaysafety/021126wintersafety.html">safely</a> in <a href="http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/winter/">winter</a>. <br><br> <a href="http://www.equipped.org/kidprimr.htm">What</a> to <a href="http://www.sublette.com/government/sheriff/tiptop.htm">do</a> if <a href="http://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/kids/skilz/lost/lost.html">you're lost</a>. <br><br> <a href="http://www.aircav.com/survival/asurtoc.html">How to survive in the wilderness, according to the US Army</a>. <a href="http://home.no.net/gedra/igloo_bg.htm">How to build an igloo</a>. <a href="http://www.gottagoitsnows.com/snowshoeing/003.html">How to make emergency snowshoes</a>. <br><br> <a href="http://www.equipped.org">equipped.org</a> reviews <a href="http://www.equipped.com/prsnlkit.htm">personal survival kits</a>, <a href="http://www.equipped.com/0601rescue.htm">provides the story of five people stranded within sight of one of the US's largest cities</a>, and <a href="http://www.equipped.org/blog/">blogs on the topic of emergency survival</a>. And, last but not least, <a href="http://www.equipped.org/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=survival&Number=79795&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1">the equipped.org forums weigh in on the Kim emergency</a>. <br><br> Requiescat in pace, James Kim. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56804 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:49:56 -0800 jameskim preparation rescue selfrescue survival wintertravel scrump