• Low technology keeps going when high technology fails
• Nothing is certain!
• BSAR members are able to adapt either themselves or other equipment to achieve the task at hand
• The weather is always foul or on its way to becoming so
• A search is always conducted in the most rugged part of Victoria
• A search will always be on the corner of four map sheets
• Radio communications are likely to be poor or non existant

Mike Tegg FVWC S&R FO 1990

Rik Head BSAR FO 2003