How Search & Rescue Operatives Use RECCO Rescue Tech | Life Saving Mountain Bike Technology
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Exploring the great outdoors on our mountain bikes is something we all live for! However, things can turn bad very quickly! Thanks to POC using RECCO rescue technology in their helmets, you can be found and brought back to safety, thanks to some clever inbuilt features. In this video, Neil Donoghue takes to the skies in a search and rescue helicopter to undertake the ultimate hide and seek challenge to find Blake Samson, who is hiding in a Swedish forest. Will he be found using the power of RECCO?
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Not only is POC swedish, RECCO is a swedish invention as well! And let's not forget about MIPS, that's swedish as well. We swedes are apperantly very inventive when it comes to safety!
Oh yeah?? .... well how do you explain surstromming!!? lol.
Don't forget Volvo and Saab, famously very save cars
And let’s not forget Husqvrna some of the fastest motorcycles on the planet….🥳
You're right! Safe Swedes!
@@jdwells7233 and horrid power tools. Probably the only good thing to come from Husqvarna are their safety clothes for chainsaws and stuff and their motorcycles
Have been looking at almost every vid you have made for the past 3-4 years, dreaming of all the amazing places you end up ridning. Then you end up making a clip where you actually film my own house... Im starstrucked 😂👍
These reflectors can be bought as stickers or tags for about €30 to put on any equipment, no need to specifically buy a POC helmet
Very impressive technology! Even more impressive that Blake didn't succumb to the rabid Swedish mosquitoes while waiting at the hideout.
I own a poc tectal, and was always wondering what the recco sticker meant.
thanks for the explanation.
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Happy to help!
Incredible video Blake and Neil 👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've got a McMurdo FastFind PLB...small enough for peace of mind when venturing out in the Cairngorms alone-on or off the bike (was bought primarily for sea kayaking)
Nice to see how that works!
Do we get a tech video maybe how the actual recco (reflectors and search element) work?
Always good to have an idea pf how those things work. Best example are avalanche recievers and why you don't walk straight onto the buried person but follow the magnet line.
OHH, that sounds like a great video, We've let Doddy know!
Do the uk have the capability to use with system?
You gotta love Sweden! Even a firefighter can speak proper English. Try that in a country like Spain, France or Italy. Even here in Switzerland that would be hard to find.
but ive got to admit we do have a funny accent...
@@gryyta9617 *friendly :D
Love the swidish guy in the middle who goes "hur går det här då?" and then gets that look, oh he is british. How is it going here? is the translation.
This is so cool.
really cool vid guys
Thanks!
Safety first Never last!
Cool man
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Interesting
I don't really understand how it works. Any wilderness area (particularly in Scandinavia) will have quite a lot of various climbers, hikers, bikers, skiers etc with gear that includes Recco reflectors, and there is no register of specific users. As an avalanche technology Recco makes sense, but the type of usage in this video seems a bit weird. Wouldn't it be easier to locate a mobile phone which is specific to the lost person and much quicker to locate because it is itself a transceiver with active positioning?
@@Pienimusta No special activation. Recco is a pretty dumb passive reflector
I had this question too 😅
There are two points against an active system like a mobile phone: it rellies on an active connection to a radio antenna (this would probably only show a radius and not a point) or more radio antennas (then it would be possible to locate you better) and it rellies on electricity. If you are using your display (for maps etc) the battery will die pretty fast and it is impossible to locate you.
This product is just convinient to have as an extra layer of safety. Rescue units will probably try to locate your phone too but its always nice to have a backup!
In ski touring, no one relies on recco - the "joke" is the only thing it's useful for is helping the rescue team eventually find your body. If you ski mountaineer, you wear an avalanche beacon - which broadcasts a signal and can be switched to receive to find others. Also everyone carries a shovel and a probe. Survival rates from burial drop frighteningly fast - realistically if the people you are skiing with can't find you and dig you out, you are unlikely to survive long enough for an MRT to be called out, get to you and dig out.
If you could run the Recco transceiver as an app for your phone, at least it could help you locate your helmet when you're going for a ride 😂
Hi Neil, it would be fun to see where you find the blood type information on the NFC technology provided by Twiceme?
If you can't find it, give me a shout and I can give you a full description of how Twiceme works, our mission ahead and the value our technology creates.
Be safe!
No mention of the fact that recco has been used in snowsports since the 80's and is now being brought into mtb?
Good point Chuck, we thought we'd covered that but it may not have made the edit!
An great idea would be to be able to install the same technology in your bike that you currently own
It's good for it to be on the helmet in case you're separated from your bike in a crash!
I have a winter jacket from Mountain Warehouse I bought years ago that has RECCO in it. Cool, but not super useful here in Canada
As its all swedish tech , is recco commonly used by UK search and rescue? would be good to know what the local tech is just incase it varies
Can some of you geniuses help me out? Due to my weird body composition every brand site I use the size calculator says they don’t have a size that fit me. I’m 193 cm tall and have an inseam of 82 cm.. so very short legs and long upper body. Should I go with a medium to make sure my legs reach or rather focus on getting my reach right?
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Does each helmet have its own identification tag? If not, how do you pinpoint one user in distress from the rest?
Great question!
You don't. It's just a signal reflector. Great in avalanches conditions when you know the area to search but not so much for searching blind in a forest if they are just 10 other safe users.
PLB or Spot looks more interresting but they still have to be triggered manually. No so interresting if you are unconscious.
Any of those are missing a "dead man detector" to request rescue only if it stopped moving (and the user hasn't disable the alarm for the time of the pause)
@@barbudor .. RECCO Reflectors require no activation.. Do your research, and stay safe
NFC seems a bit gimmicy, but RECCO tag is a nice add on.
The NFC tag for first aiders is a great touch! Being able to access an unknown parties medical information can allow a first aider to give the right blood or avoid an allergy.
@@gmbn I understand how it work, it's more a matter of how would they know to scan it in the first place and with what equipment, what kind of data format would be used to store things etc. It's one of those things that works once it's widely adopted.
How does the recco know that youre in danger? does it activate from a hit?? Do you have to call someone and then for example the police or something signals recco???
RECCO Reflectors require no activation, if you're missing in the wilderness or buried under snow or rocks and are being searched for, you will be found
Please get blake to explain what due diligence means 😂
Can I just say an air tag stuck to ya helmet will work just as good and so will using the FIND my phone function....
Not knocking this tech but other options are available ams much cheaper for the family guy or person that has a few bikes to look after and run....
What if more than one person have this recco wouldn‘t it beep at all of them?😂
What if Blake jumped a helicopter 😂
They should carry vidles for a hungry Blake
How do they know when someone has crashed vs just taking a break. They didn’t say anything about the biker hitting a distress button or anything
Good point, makes a pretty massive difference if they have to be alerted by friends/family after you're late back from a multi-day trip! Wasn't there some other tech that sent an alert if the helmet recorded a rapid deceleration, in which case a link to your phone to send out an alert sms with your location would be handy
@@tomb2289 ya I remember that. Also it alerted on hard impact
Because it is passive and do not send any rescue request message. It's only if someone has called the rescue team that they will start searching.
Blake could be in a jungle, as long he has his bike he would be happy.
unfortunatly not all bike domains are equiped with these technology ... and how do they know you have a compatible helmet...
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I can only imagine how much a search and rescue would cost in the US. You might be better off crawling out of the woods.
Wait?! They have to pay for that? The ultimate freedom of bankrupt
@@FLODDI100 yeah, and it definitley isnt cheap.
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Don't buy it!
I have an orange (avip) POC Kortal Race mips - and it looks terrible after a couple of months - UV light has destroyed the colour. No response from POC on FB if this is a problem with my item or a poor quality of UV protection in general.
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