From: Gregory david Stempel <fyrframe@centurytel.net>
Planning for some travel photography? Be prepared. http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2003/safety/safety.html
hmm very interesting.... but read this passage taken...
May 2000, foreign correspondents around the world were shocked by the deaths of Kurt Schork of Reuters and Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Associated Press Television News, who were killed in Sierra Leone while driving two vehicles with Sierra Leonean army soldiers onboard. Rebels ambushed the vehicles, killing the two journalists instantly, along with several of the soldiers.
Schork and Moreno were two of the most experienced war correspondents in the business, described by colleagues as savvy and careful in combat situations. Schork had also completed a hostile-environment training course for journalists. But the surprise attack gave neither correspondent the chance to use his knowledge; they were hit immediately.
Two other Reuters journalists were with them, however, and both survived. Yannis Behrakis, a veteran photographer, and Mark Chisholm, an experienced cameraman, were not hit in the initial gunfire and managed to flee the cars to escape into the bush. Once in hiding, "Behrakis smeared himself with mud and leaves to blend into the terrain as the rebels looked for survivors ... within 15 feet of him," reported Peter Maass in a lengthy article on the incident in the now defunct media watchdog magazine Brill?s Content. Behrakis, who served for two years as a soldier in Greece before becoming a journalist, credited training that he received from the British firm Centurion Risk Assessment Services Ltd. with helping to save his life.
here are sound survival tactics, coupled with poor choices... (boarding a possible target, the truck)
notice that behrakis 2 year obligatory national armed forces training (same one that i received) did not help much
i did not had the time to read on, but if these cources do not instill MINDSET (as often not the rule in military training) they worth little.
you got to use that mush container on top of your neck. to ADAPT!
anyway, the same precautions should apply to the modern urban environment...shouldn't they?
enjoy, kostas
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