Drowned Victim Search Dogs

SARDA (IN) has secured the unique distinction, of being the first SARDA group to develop a system for training the drowned victim search dog. Training Officer Neil has seen service with the Royal Navy and later, was a crew member in the RNLI, so he is very familiar with the sea and with boats. He has worked very closely with John Sjoberg, an ex-Swedish Special Forces officer, to develop the DVSD course

	They spent almost 20 years, perfecting a technique for teaching dogs to detect persons beneath the water, and then to deploy them on active searches with an eventual body location accuracy of some 10metres from a placed marker buoy. They have also worked closely on producing a method for selecting the right type of dog for this work. They have extended this to then building a training strategy for the dog, in what they would contend, is probably, the most difficult of all the search dog disciplines. e most difficult of all the search dog disciplines.
John Soberg & Sambo
Cuiscle	SARDA(IN) first DVS dog, Cuisle, was the very first dog in the UK and Ireland, trained to locate victims who were beneath the water. He found some 10 drowned victims in his working life and set the standard for those to follow. Read More .....