Duncan Ferner

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Duncan Ferner, Manager, New Zealand Search and Rescue (NZSAR) Secretariat. The NZSAR Secretariat provides the New Zealand Search and Rescue Council with information, support services and advice. It also provides leadership and implements measures to effect the strategic co-ordination of New Zealand’s search and rescue sector.

Cave rescuers communicating to the surface via the “Michie phone” earth return communication system, minus 250m below ground.

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SAR in action: Deep cave rescue

A caver, who has suffered multiple injuries after a fall, is trapped approximately 300 metres deep in the Ellis Basin cave system on Mount Arthur. A full-scale cave search and rescue is launched, with cave teams tasked to locate the…