SEARCHING FOR AN ANSWER

摘要

To appreciate the scope of search and rescue in Canada, look no further than a month in the life of 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron.Over a 30-day period this summer, among other missions, the CFB Comox-based search and rescue (SAR) team airlifted a hiker off the West Coast Trail, hoisted two sailors from the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound, provided medical support for an injured hiker from the Nootka Trail, rescued two sailors from an overturned vessel near Texada Island, assisted the U.S. Coast Guard in the rescue of four American fishermen in the Alaskan waters of Dixon Entrance and evacuated a group of hikers from Strathcona Park, including one who had fallen along a cliff face at an altitude of 5,000 feet.