Obstruction Search and Removal...

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The Dive Team took the opportunity of a reported obstruction in a marked channel at a local marina and use it as a training scenario in search and recovery...

Team members responded with Rescue 34 inflatiable and equipment to search the area outside of Jersey Shore Marina off of Route 70 in Brick, N.J.

Several search techniques and patterns were used and after 45 nminutes the obstruction was located and removed. Several boats from the Jersey Shore Marina had reported hitting an object while operating in the channel just outside the marina. Damage to props and hulls were reported by several boat owners at the marina...

Located within the marked channel was a large metal Crab trap that has been hit numerous times. The trap was found partially submerged and it was evident that the object had been hit many times....

The Long Lost Tank...

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While operating 20 miles offshore the fishing vessel “Muros” pulled up this scuba tank in one of its nets and brought it back to their dock. Members of the Muros turned the tank over to team member Tom Hurst who is owner\operator of Towboat U.S. and has been involved in prior operations of the team.

Tom retrieved the tank and contacted Team Captain Chet Nesley who went to work identifying the tank and locate the original owner. Nesley posted messages on numerous ‘Scuba” related message boards as well as searching VIP records.

Nesley was contacted by Rick Maxwell who recalled that one of his instructors had lost a tank overboard during rough seas while on a dive at the Stolt Dagali wreck site. The dive was conducted from the dive boat Venture 3... Nesley then emailed a photo of the lost tank to Maxwell who passed it on to Ronnie who was the instructor and possible owner of the lost tank. Ronnie immediately emailed back that the lost tank was in fact the tank that she lost during the Stolt Dagali dive…