The U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) Research and Development Center (R&DC) has developed new tools to estimate the survival of immersed and stranded (i.e., in survival craft) victims by search and rescue (SAR) planners. The tools include a thermal and dehydration model developed by the U. S. Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), an empirical model developed by the University of Portsmouth (UP), UK, and a maximum search time ...
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