U. S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue (CG-SAR)

SAR Facts, Reports, Presentations & Info Sheets
Follow the following links to presentations, forms, documents, and historical reports.

Presentations

• Digital Select Calling (DSC) Radios & Your MMSI--Aug 2008
• Aircraft Ditching and Water Survival Presentation--Jul 2008
• Search and Rescue is No Joke! - About Hoax Distress Calls
• If you See A Flare...

Brochures and Forms

• EPIRB Fact Sheet
• Beacon Registration Brochure
• Digital Select Calling (DSC) Fact Sheet
• DSC Brochure
• MMSI Brochure
• Float Plan
• Flight Plan

Reports

• USCG SAR Statistics
• Land Search and Search Theory Report:
  "Compatibility of Land SAR Procedures with Search Theory" Dec 2003
• Land Search Sweep Widths Report:
  "A Method for Determining Effective Sweep Widths for Land Searches" Sep 2002
• Land SAR Sweep Width Report:
  "Sweep Width Estimation for Ground Search and Rescue"

SAR Responder Risk Management

• Operational Risk Management, Commandant Instruction 3500.3, 23 Nov 1999
  This instruction standardizes the Coast Guard's Operational Risk Management (ORM) policy and outlines procedures and responsibilities to implement it.
• Team Coordination Training
• Risk Management in Search and Rescue: Presentation given at SARSCENE in 2007