A Successful Mountain Rescue Operation at Mt. Oriod - Maranat Falls - April 3 to 4, 2015. Swimming Training cum Maranat Hike cum Rescue Operation: Our supposedly swimming session turned out to be a much unexpected journey for us. I was on my way to Makati for a swimming session but due to certain circumstances, [...]
Successfull Mountain SAR operation at pico de loro in ternate cavite. Feb6-7,2015. 10pm day1 we were informed of a distress call from two hikers who lost their way during the descent from the shoulder camp of pico. As wisar operatives residing in cavite, the wonderful wisar volunteers sprang into action. We notified Konsi Ian Borja [...]
Wisar operational details: (For wisar eyes only) Last sunday(jan25), 3 female hikers did a dayhike and climbed Pico De Loro (mts palay-palay/mataas na gulod protected landscape)in Cavite. They reached the summit and was on their way back to the DENR jumpoff point when they missed a turn (left turn 100meters after Manong Rey's hut). Instead of [...]
On the early hours of July 14, 2014, I recieved a call that there was a group of mountaineers who were lost while doing a traverse of Mt. Marami in Magallanes Cavite to Pico de Loro in Ternate Cavite. Cavite based WISAR members immediateky mobilized with permission from Doc Ted and Konsi Ian since we were among [...]
During the HolyWeek of April 2014, WISAR for the first time had a chance to be part of the volunteer SAR teams in Bantay Banahaw in Kinabuhayan Dolores Quezon. We coordinated with the Quezon PDRRM, Ugnayan ng Mamumundok ng Banahaw, and other Quezon based organizations to have WISAR in their roster of volunteers and they approved. [...]
This was WISAR's "maiden ops" On June 19,2013 roughly a week before the graduation of WISAR Batch1, we received word that a mountaineer went missing and has not returned home. His father is already worried about his son's predicament. We did the necessary coordinations and victim profiling and found out that the subject climbed Mt. Manabu in [...]
