Search & Recovery

  • Search and recovery strategies
    • depending on the scene of recovery, i.e. fire scenes, water recoveries, etc.
    • Maximising potential for identification
    • Maximising potential for evidence recovery
    • Maximising humane effort to recover all recognisable human tissue
  • Recognising human remains 
    • separating human from non-human remains and natural/artificial materials mimicking human bone 
    • partial, disrupted, fragmentary remains are particularly challenging
  • Advice on what is still missing (anatomically)
    • completeness of remains 
    • why parts may be missing (Taphonomy)

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