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search and rescue
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search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger
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Vinony's link graph records 2,953 inbound references to search and rescue, and connects out to Northern Cyprus, Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight and Taiwan.
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A Canadian Forces AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant helicopter hoists a man from a Canadian Coast Guard ship A SAR cruiser of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include mountain rescue; ground search and rescue, including the use of search and rescue dogs (such as K9 units); urban search and rescue in cities; combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water.
The International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a UN organisation that promotes the exchange of information between national urban search and rescue organisations. The duty to render assistance is covered by Article 98 of the UNCLOS.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “search and rescue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.