In case you need to work with an S&R team, they have gone to a 12-code system, similar to the 10-codes. Below is a cheat sheet for you



EDSAR 12 Codes©



Brevity on the radio is a sign of professionalism. Therefore, El Dorado SAR has created a series of codes to cover the

most common SAR situations. These codes, known as the "12 codes", are as follows:



12-01 Be advised, your GPS coordinates place you in Uruguay.

12-02 Your radio worthless. Set it on fire, make smoke signals.

12-03 Have found subject. Please advise us of our location.

12-04 Subject insists on being rescued by opposite sex.

12-05 Subject demands rescuers bathe before approaching further.

12-06 Subject has stolen litter and is tobogganing down hill.

12-07 Subject has obviously never been within 100 miles of this &^%$# place.

12-08 Subject is begging not to be put back in litter a third time.

12-09A What was your last message?

12-09B I was asking you what your last message was.

12-09C Well, I asked you first.

12-10 We've kicked over a wasp nest and are now 4 miles from last location.

12-11 Searcher stumbled into old cesspool. Send fire hose.

12-12 Searcher carried away by mosquitoes. Do you wish direction of travel?

12-13 Searcher hurled chunks in helicopter. Team bailing out.

12-14 Flare away.

12-14A Flare away. Scratch one helicopter.

12-14B Flare away. However, car window was rolled up.

12-15 Is this a sketch of the subject, or a drawing of Mr. Potatohead?

12-16 _________ is picking on me.

12-16A I was not! __________ started it.

12-16B Not!

12-16C Did so!

12-19 Sure, this photocopied, enlarged, scanned, and faxed driver's license picture is perfectly clear.

12-20 "Here" is not an adequate location -- please elaborate.

12-21 If I knew where I was, I wouldn't need you to bring me a map, would I?

12-22 Witness reports seeing subject enter gingerbread house.

12-24 The ELT beacon is directly south, west, and north of us.

12-25 Our computer-generated map only shows zip codes.