Our MD and Chief Engineer is Chris Beer, a qualified marine engineer and search team lead. Chris has been a search tech, team lead, medic, flood first responder and the boat team lead at Kent Search and Rescue for nearly 7 years. He established the KSAR Underwater Search team in 2019 and has led the team at nearly 60 underwater searches, in 7 different policing areas of the UK. Chris has undertaken training in the UK and US and has trained 4 regional underwater search teams on sonar and ROV usage as well as search planning, risk assessment and ops.