Three ground search teams and the Yarmouth branch of the civilian air search and rescue association found their mock victim Saturday.
CASARA and the Yarmouth, Clare and Barrington ground search and rescue teams took part in a large exercise.
Yarmouth and Clare set up at the Pinkney’s Point Wharf while the Barrington team was in Comeau’s Hill and Chebogue Point.
The scenario involved a fishermen who drifted ashore on a life raft.
Cory Burke, president of the Yarmouth search team said they had a de-briefing after the exercise.
While low cloud cover kept CASARA’s planes on the ground, they still participated.
“There’s always stuff to learn. We learned that we just need to do a little more integration with CASARA and the ground crews. We had a few computer issues, stuff we thought that we had already taken care of but we didn’t so we have to look into that again and fix that. Other than that it was an A-1 exercise.”
About 78 people took part.
