PHONE APP FINDS LOST HIKERS AGAIN
1 Jan 2012 Last updated at 06:27 ET
Missing walkers in the Brecon Beacons have again been saved by mountain rescue teams regulating the ultimate smartphone technology.
For the second time in only over a week the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) used the Sarloc complement to find hikers.
On Friday, two men from the Caerphilly area were saved when they became mislaid in low clouded cover on Fan Hir.
The complement was grown by rescue teams in Snowdonia, and pinpoints the expect place of a smartphone.
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Basic towering skills are still essential”
End Quote Mark Jones Brecon Mountain Rescue Team
Mark Jones from Brecon MRT said: “Despite it being dim when our teams fabricated we were able to fix up just where the men were, regulating a web-based mobile phone place programme called Sarloc.
“The program works by promulgation a web link to the blank person’s phone.
“Once they click on the link their place is sent to the towering rescue map servers and flashes up on the computer complement being used by the poke physical education instructor at the scene.”
The two rescue teams were able to go true to the blank men and travel them off the towering in a three-hour operation.
‘Busiest year’
The thirty Dec call-out was the 97th of 2011 for Brecon Mountain Rescue Team, creation it their busiest in the 43-year history.
Mr Jones added: “This program is a good assistance to us, though should in no approach reinstate the use of a map and compass by the walkers on the hill.
“It may assistance us fix up the blank persons more fast than normal poke techniques, though simple towering skills are still essential.”
Teams used identical technology on twenty-one Dec to find a integrate mislaid on south Wales top mountain, Pen y Fan. The integrate downloaded an app which suggested they more than a mile from where they thought.
Sarloc was devised by Russ Hore of Ogwen Valley Mountain Rrescue Organisation, and has already been used to fix up blank walkers opposite Snowdonia.
The complement is right away being adopted by towering rescue teams opposite the world.
1 Jan 2012 Last updated at 06:27 ET
Missing walkers in the Brecon Beacons have again been saved by mountain rescue teams regulating the ultimate smartphone technology.
For the second time in only over a week the Brecon Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) used the Sarloc complement to find hikers.
On Friday, two men from the Caerphilly area were saved when they became mislaid in low clouded cover on Fan Hir.
The complement was grown by rescue teams in Snowdonia, and pinpoints the expect place of a smartphone.
Continue celebration of the mass the categorical story
“Start Quote
Basic towering skills are still essential”
End Quote Mark Jones Brecon Mountain Rescue Team
Mark Jones from Brecon MRT said: “Despite it being dim when our teams fabricated we were able to fix up just where the men were, regulating a web-based mobile phone place programme called Sarloc.
“The program works by promulgation a web link to the blank person’s phone.
“Once they click on the link their place is sent to the towering rescue map servers and flashes up on the computer complement being used by the poke physical education instructor at the scene.”
The two rescue teams were able to go true to the blank men and travel them off the towering in a three-hour operation.
‘Busiest year’
The thirty Dec call-out was the 97th of 2011 for Brecon Mountain Rescue Team, creation it their busiest in the 43-year history.
Mr Jones added: “This program is a good assistance to us, though should in no approach reinstate the use of a map and compass by the walkers on the hill.
“It may assistance us fix up the blank persons more fast than normal poke techniques, though simple towering skills are still essential.”
Teams used identical technology on twenty-one Dec to find a integrate mislaid on south Wales top mountain, Pen y Fan. The integrate downloaded an app which suggested they more than a mile from where they thought.
Sarloc was devised by Russ Hore of Ogwen Valley Mountain Rrescue Organisation, and has already been used to fix up blank walkers opposite Snowdonia.
The complement is right away being adopted by towering rescue teams opposite the world.