Rescue Boats and Google Searches
Tuesday’s QuizTime puzzle was a fun one posted by that centered around a boat in a mysterious body of water. “Where did I take the photo?” he asks. Well, I am going to tell you how I solved this one using Google Search and some collaboration.
SPOILERS BELOW
The first thing I did was a reverse image search on the photo but that turned up zero details. Next, I copied the image into photoshop and blew up the lettering on the side “Rettungsboot, SAMA 16/88–2 SASB”. I knew from experience that this would be a location in or around Germany so I Googled “Rettungsboot Germany” which translated Rettungsboot to “Rescue Boat.”
At this point, I assumed it would be easy to find the boat registration numbers somewhere online but this turned out to be harder than I thought. I noticed had located an article showing the boat numbers but noted a different location of Mittel-Brandenburg.
Clicking on Daniel’s article showed me not only what ABS was (Rescue Training) but also showed me where the training center was located.
With Daniel’s help in finding the article, I was quickly able to do an image search on “Holzer See near Groß Köris” and come up with a photo showing a similar outcropping of trees as the article photo.
From here I decided I had enough verification to make my guess!
This was my first official QuizTime victory and in the future, I hope to gain more knowledge on the various search methods rather than just guessing semi-randomly. If you want to learn more about QuizTime you can find more writeups here.
