Recent Searches 8/25-26/2013

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the north end of the Winnemucca Dry Lake bed to search for a stranded subject that was stuck and broken down.  The subject had hiked from his vehicle to a high point to get cell service.  He gave his coordinates that were shown on his phone, but unknown to the SAR coordinators, the subject evidently left out a decimal point in both coordinates when relaying the message to dispatch.  Teams searched the presumed area without any success.  It was then discovered that instead of the coordinates being in degrees/decimal degrees, they should have been given as degrees/minutes/decimal minutes.  RAVEN then flew to the new location and located the subject in the Smoke Creek playa.  They transported the subject to waiting deputies in Gerlach.