Friday's Internet Edition, September 10, 2010.
Rescue Squad Dive Team Ready In Case Of Accident
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| Members of the Davie County Rescue Squad’s Water Rescue Team practice in the Kinderton lake recently. - Photo by Robin Snow |
But Pete Ressa, dive rescue captain of the Davie County Rescue Squad, wants everyone to remember one thing: “Water’s great, but you’ve got to respect it.”
Ressa and nine other divers, along with support personnel, took to the lake at Kinderton recently, to participate in a mock search and recovery training session. It was the team’s first black water diving, he explained, as the dark lake water offered zero visibility. The divers were connected to the shore by a rope, as they searched for clay pigeons thrown in the water.
The Water Rescue Team is trained to search and recover bodies and evidence, as well as perform rescue operations. They were on standby to go the site on the Dan River in Virginia recently, to aid in the efforts to recover the body of a ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.