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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Water Rescue – Dive Team Training

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Sunday, August, 4 2013 @ 9:30

Nature: Water Rescue – Dive Team Training

Location: Indian River Bay

Address: South Side Indian River Bay – near Bay Colony

On Sunday, August 4th, Indian River’s 80 Marine 1 assisted the Millville Fire Company (84) with a water rescue dive team training exercise in the Indian River Bay off of Bay Colony. The exercise was intended to get acquainted with the Indian River’s Marine Unit as well as experiment and train with new underwater dive team communication devices for Millville.

Divers were teethered off and performed various training execises while becoming acclimated with the new diving equipment.  Their spefic assignments were to perform various sweeping searching patterns in order to search and locate specific objects with near zero visibility within the water conditions.

Additional information about Millville’s Dive Team can be located via the following link:

http://www.millville84.com/diveteam.cfm

It in envisioned that 80 Marine Units could be instrumental with Millville during times of need and collaboration.