TORUMTAY ALTAN

... Alpinist

​​- Performs: Rock climbing, Technical Climbing, Mixed Climbing, Dry Tooling, Ice Climbing, high altitude (3000-4000 meters) winter climbing. 

- TDF (Turkish Mountaineering Federation) Licensed mountain athlete. Mostly solo climber.

 

... Search & Rescue Specialist

Search & Rescue & Medical Rescue Experience (2001 – 2018)

• Information Technology (Archives Unit) Coordinator | AKUT Search and Rescue Association, Ankara (2001-2010)

  • Managed information workflows, unit operations, and operational archives during critical domestic search and rescue missions.

  • Actively served as an operational member in diverse emergencies, including natural disasters, urban search and rescue (USAR/structural collapse), wilderness search and rescue.

  • Delivered comprehensive training in rope access rescue techniques and self-rescue (climbing).

• Navigation & Mountaineering Unit Member & Instructor | UMKE (National Medical Rescue Team | Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Health) (2009-2018)

  • Operated within the specialized Navigation and Mountaineering unit for high-stakes medical rescue operations.

  • Field hospitals are deployed to critical field environments including explosions, fires, accidents, natural disasters, wilderness and urban rescue, wilderness rescue, and terrorist attacks.

  • Delivered comprehensive training in navigation, wilderness survival (clothing, nutrition, sheltering), rope access rescue techniques, self-rescue (climbing), basic mountaineering, and hospital disaster/emergency plan practices.

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Search and Rescue Qualifications & Certifications:​

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- Wilderness and Mountain Search and Rescue:

Wilderness First Aid & Medicine, Climbing Self Rescue Skills, Specialized Navigation Training, Basic Camping / Snow Camping,  Patient Packaging, Evacuation, Immobilization, Spinal Clearance, Patient Packaging and Litter Securing,Mountain Nutrition and Survival, etc.

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- Urban Search and Rescue:

-NASAR SARTEC (2-4)

- Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (Heavy USAR)

- Structural Collapse Rescue

- Concrete Breaching and Void Entry

- Technical Rescue - Concrete Specialist

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- Medical Rescue:

- First Aid, Basic Life Support, 

​- First Aid in Wilderness & Remote Areas,

- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) & AED Use

- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS),

​- Airway Management, 

- Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

- Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) & Triage

- Crush Injury & Compartment Syndrome

- Spinal Immobilization & Patient Stabilization

- Vehicle Extrication & Rescue Techniques

- Confined Space & Collapse Rescue Medicine

- High-Angle / Rope Rescue Medicine

- Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)

- CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Medical Defense

- Incident Command System (ICS) for Medical Teams

- Patient Evacuation & Transport Techniques

- Aeromedical Evacuation (MEDEVAC)

- Ambulance Operations & Safety