Training and Equipment

All Rovers are trained under the guiding principles of the Z1620, Core Competency Standards for Ground Search and Rescue operations: Searcher, Team Leader, and SAR Manager.

Rovers receive training in many hands-on and theory-based courses. Some include:

• • Incident Command System (ICS)
  • Computerized Mapping Systems
  • Basic Emergency Management
  • Emergency Scene Management
  • Urban Search and Rescue
  • Emergency Operations Center Management
  • VHF Radio Certification
  • Maritime Radio course
  • Map & Compass
  • GPS Training
  • Survival skills
  • Wilderness Remote First Aid
  • Advanced Wilderness First Aid
  • Standard First Aid
  • Pleasure Craft Competency
  • Lost Person Behavior
  • Search management
  • Searching techniques
  • Evidence searching
  • Rescue techniques
  • Fast Rescue Craft
  • Hovercraft Rescue
  • ATV & Snowmobile
  • High Angle Rescue
  • Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)
  • Ice Rescue