How Effective Is This New Parallel Group Search Rescue Technique?

Beacon search techniques have come a long way since the days of walking around with earphones trying to home in on a buried signal from an analog transceiver.
As part of #TGRSafetyWeek, take a deeper dive with IPRW lead instructors Jim “Sarge” Conway and Jamie Weeks for a preview of a novel beacon search technique they’ve had a hand in developing with Backcountry Access over the last few years. Called the Parallel Group Search, it's a method that instructors and guides have recently found effective in large-scale multiple burial scenarios when a group of searchers is available.
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[@backtoobasics]

Thank you for the continued dedication to your craft, bringing people home safely or preventing tragity by provinding great information to keep everyone safe

[@SakhSki]

Great work!

[@matt.rraw.]

glad BCA changed its logo.

[@Fulorange]

I think this is certainly effective if you don't know how many buried there are, but you better be confident there's no more risk by putting everyone in the slide path. Also a bit confused by one part, the instructor acting as the leader stays below the group searching but then when they need to help they have to travel back uphill, easy on a groomer though in a real-world scenario that makes no sense, wasted time and energy to me.

[@Govanification]

Right, instead of saying "come to me" when moving the line forward, you could instruct one lane to move down and be the new marker, instructor stays where the old line was, and tell the rest of the team to move to the new marker. Instructor stays even or uphill of the team the whole time.

[@Corkedit]

I get the theory, in practice speed not lane measurements are key. Why has this been made more complicated with what is normally limited experianced people its not the milatary its people helping.

[@WutokayByuh]

Makes no sense using meters instead of feet. Why have to do math differentials while making critical life saving efforts?

[@ostin1]

All beacons use meters, the rest of the world uses meters, consistency everywhere allows for international travel and international teams to avoid issues of misalignment. It's fine. Number go down → you're closer. Worst case you can roughly multiply by 3 to get an estimate of feet.