2012 Incidents

Callout with TVMRT to search for a walker who was lost in Glentress forest.  Thankfully he was found safe and well after successful use of SARLOC to determine his location.

A change of plan for some of the team's Hogmanay celebrations!

Standby - team on standby to deploy in the search for a missing man near Musselburgh.  Man was found by police.

BSARU and BUWST were called out to search a stretch of the River Tweed near Norham.  A man's body was found and recovered,

Standby - team was on standby to assist TVMRT with a call-out in the Pentlands.

The team were called out to search for a missing elderly woman in the Boghall area.  After a day and a half of searching, the woman turned up at a relative's house. 

BSARU were called out to assist in the search for a missing person from Linlithgow. TVMRT, SARDA and Ochills MRT were also in attendance.  Thankfully, the missing woman returned home, safe and well, just as the teams were arriving in the area.

Team on standby as an elderly man was missing near Coldingham. He was soon located at a nearby caravan park.

The team was paged early to continue the search for a missing man who Tweed Valley MRT had been looking for overnight.  

Later this morning, a body was found and recovered by BSARU.

Edinburgh Rideout - the team provided first aid cover for the rideout and attended to three casualties who required hospital treatment.  All were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

BSARU and TVMRT were called out to search for a missing West Lothian woman who was last seen on 24th August.  

BSARU continued the search over the next two days, resulting in the discovery of a body in dense woodland near to the village of Dechmont.

Flodden Rideout - the team attended to a rider who had fallen from his horse during the rideout.  The man was taken to BGH.

BSARU were called out to assist North of Tyne MRT in a search of the Pennine Way along the border, where a woman was struggling with the boggy conditions.  She was found safe and well by members of NoTMRT, near the end of her planned route.

The team was diverted from providing first aid cover at the Duns ride-out, to assist the occupants of two vehicles that had become stranded at a picnic site near the bank of the River Whiteadder. Both vehicles were towed out by our Land Rover.

The team was called out to search for an elderly dog-walker from Coldingham who was last seen on Friday.  A member of the public found the man and alerted nearby team members who stabilised him then transported him to a waiting road ambulance.

BSARU and Border Under Water Search Team were involved in the search for a missing fisherman near Tillmouth.  A multi-agency search involving teams from both sides of the border sadly resulted in the discovery of a man's body. 

Whilst assisting Tweed Valley MRT with first aid cover at a mountain bike event, team members were called to the aid of a hill-walker in an un-related incident. He had fallen and injured his shoulder.  The injured man was taken to Borders General Hospital in the team Land Rover.

BSARU was called out overnight to search for a missing woman in the Dalkeith area.  In the morning, after the team had been stood down, her body was found to the south of our search area.

Overnight call-out to search for a missing person around Stichill near the team's base, Kelso.  2 SARDA and police dog handlers were also involved in the search and a body was found and recovered.

Fatality

A two day search for a missing person in the Longformacus area.

The team was stood down and missing person was subsequently found in Glasgow.

The team were Winter Skills training in the Cairngorms when asked to help with the ongoing search for a man who was last known to have been at the Corrour bothy.  He had been out in severe weather the previous month and as there was no route plan left, the search area was huge.  Sadly, it was a further 3 months before his body was found. 

The team was called out to assist Tweed Valley in the search for a missing man in the West Calder area.  The call out went on for 2 days. Sadly, a body was found and recovered on 7/2/12.

Fatality