Dive Rescue 1 Training

Divers and shore support conduct a search for a victim during the scenario. Participants are responding to a working scenario. Graduates of our Citizen's Police Academy role-play the positions of victim's family members, media, and by-standers.
Training participants call it a successful day!

Media Coverage (click image for larger)

Top Left: A Richmond Water Rescue Diver surfaces and signals he is "OK" after finding a sawed-off shotgun thrown into a local river.

Bottom Left: A unit member searches in shallow frigid water.

Right: Two divers surface after working on the recovery of a sunken pontoon boat in a local lake.

Above and Below! (click image for larger)

Top Left: A team diver hovers just off the bottom of a quarry during a training dive.

Bottom Left: Most of the water that these divers train in is like this or worse.

Top Right: Members of the Police and Fire Departments train using throw lines for rescue.

Middle Right: A team member demonstrates the use of a Personal Flotation Device (PFD).

Bottom Right: Police and Fire members learn how to deal with conflicting currents in water.