Public Safety Diving
An extract from NYPD Scuba Team on what public safety diving includes:
- Evidence recovery
- Submerged body recoveries (from accidents/suicides/crime victims)
- Anti-narcotics operations (inspecting ships hulls etc.)
- Anti-terrorism operations (Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
- Search and rescue operations
- Other maritime law enforcement
Due to the conditions in which accidents may happen, or where criminals may choose to dispose of evidence or their victims, police divers might need to dive:
- In murky canals, lakes, and rivers
- Currents that can run as fast as 6 knots
- In intake pipes and sewers
- In water towers
under hostile environmental conditions which can include:
- Sludge, mud, debris or thick vegetation
- Under ice
- At night time or with zero visibility
- Frigid water, rough seas and weather
- Strong currents
- Water with toxins or parasites
- And other situations beyond any recreational diving training
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