Professional Search and Recovery
The scope of professional search and recovery includes the following applications:
- Marine archeology - search for artifacts of historical interest and importance, and where applicable the recovery of such artifacts for study.
- Marine salvage - search for lost material of value and recovery thereof
- Environmental protection - search for environmentally undesirable material and disposal thereof
- Forensic S&R - search for and recovery of material relevant to police investigations
- Emergency S&R - Search for and recovery of victims of accidents and disasters
- Military S&R - Search and recovery related to military operations and material
- Scientific S&R - search for objects of scientific interest, recovery of instrumentation and samples
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Preparing a public safety diver for the water
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Parbuckling a casualty onto the boat
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