Why the activities?
The activities are what makes the NavRescue event more than just another navigation exercise. The activities are chosen to fit the following criteria:
- Can be completed in about 10 minutes
- Requires no specialist skills
- Presents something of a challenge to the team
Using these criteria the activities themselves set to promote and test some of the following skills:
- Teamwork
- Incident management
- Time management
- First Aid
- Initiative
- Problem solving
Some Examples
There is always a First Aid activity. The scenario for the 1995 activity was that of a chainsaw accident.
We also try to include a "fun" activity. In 1997 we made the teams erect a simple two-person hike tent whilst blind-folded.
In keeping with typical scenarios which might confront a team in the area they're working in we ran an activity involving a crashed hang glider near the popular hang gliding spot at Bald Hill in 1999.
Previous winners
- 1991 Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue
- 1992 HMAS Creswell PTIs
- 1993 Joint winners - Baulkham Hills SES / Gosford SES
- 1994 University of Wollongong Company Army Reserve
- 1995 Ku-Ring-Gai SES
- 1996 Baulkham Hills SES
- 1997 Hawkesbury SES
- 1998 Cancelled due to operational commitment (Wollongong storms)
- 1999 Hornsby SES
- 2000 Gosford SES
- 2001 Baulkham Hills SES
- 2002 Cancelled due to operational commitment (bushfire support)
- 2003 Waverley/Woollahra SES
- 2004 Waverley/Woollahra SES
- 2005 Waverley/Woollahra SES
- 2006 Not held
- 2007 Waverley/Woollahra SES
- 2008 Waverley/Woollahra SES
- 2009 Southern Highlands Bushwalkers
- 2010 Cancelled due to operational commitment (Fathers Day Windstorm)
- 2011 Southern Highlands Bushwalkers
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