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SAR4SaR: The folding, floating search and rescue device

SAR4SaR: The folding, floating search and rescue device

Update: 2025-10-27
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New Zealand’s marine search and rescue region stretches from Antarctica to north of Samoa. If someone goes missing without any means of communication, that’s a lot of ocean to search. Now researchers and the New Zealand Defence Force have teamed up to develop and test a low-tech, no-battery device that can be picked up by radar - including that beamed down by satellites orbiting Earth.
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SAR4SaR: The folding, floating search and rescue device

SAR4SaR: The folding, floating search and rescue device