Drones tested in real-life search and rescue scenarios

2018-04-27T13:01:00

Crew members giving casualty care to a mock casualty during an exercise featuring a drone (Photo: RNLI/ Nathan Williams)

The UK’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) have run a special event to test the use of drones in a variety of real-life search and rescue scenarios.

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