Basic Tracking for SAR Module
PSTI, Search and Rescue Academy
April 5,  2002
Developed By: Ted Fisher for
PSTI, Search and Rescue Academy.
Tracking has been around for thousands of years, but tracking techniques have just been utilized more since the mid 1900’s to locate missing persons. This probably has to be attributed to the United States border patrol. They used tracking extensively in locating illegal aliens coming across our southern border.

Tracking can and should be a major tool in locating a missing subject. All trained searchers should be at least track aware, but all searchers do not necessarily have to be trackers.