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August 31, 1957. The text SPECIAL TO PSDIVER MONTHLY of the stories carried the news that the Chicago Chicago Mass Dive Police Department was looking for many Story of what is believed to be the largest volunteer divers to carry controlled underwater search ever conducted out a through search of by Scuba Divers the bottom of our By Vern Pederson Montrose Harbor, hunting for evidence that could SEEK 100 SKIN DIVERS, screamed the headlines of lead to the capture of the the Chicago newspapers on the warm summer evening of murderers of a teen-aged girl a few weeks previously. Following are the details that led to, and followed these headlines, and culminated in Chicago Mass Dive.

http://browniesmarinegroup.com/ On Friday evening, August 16, a 15 year old girl disappeared while on her way hone from a friend’s house. On August 22, part of her crudely butchered body was recovered from a 55 gallon oil drum found floating in the Harbor, and two days later the remainder of the body was found by Harry Bartels, a diver, jammed into a five gallon oil drum only a few hundred yards from where the first drum had been discovered.

Immediately upon the finding of the girl, Lt. Mike Spiota asked divers to search the waters for any clues, and also the remainder of the body, which at that time had not yet been found. No public mention of this was made at that time, however, and only a few divers were working the area for the next week. Then the enormity of the job

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became apparent, and it was www.carterbag.com to get more details of the clear that something drastic proposed operation before must be done if the entire harbor committing myself and diving was to be completely and well friends, I went to the harbor and searched. met police Sgt. Walter “Buck” Bukovichak, Chief Deeley’s It was in this time that one of personal representative, and the the participating divers, Gene man who would officially be in Morales, was discussing the charge of the entire project. Due situation with Lt Spiota. It must to past experience in recovery be realized that this harbor is work, I was put in charge of the three quarters of a mile long, diving itself. After a meeting with Capt. Deeley, we set and one quarter mile wide, and has moorings for over the time for starting the job at 10:00 A.M. the next day, 200 craft ranging from 18 feet to 50 feet in length. The Sunday. depth varies from 15 feet at the edges to 40 feet in the center, with an extreme depth of 75 feet at the harbor All the Chicago papers printed the request for divers, mouth. Because of the silt and muck on the bottom, while I contacted Al Hollowell, Secretary of the Illinois visibility is zero, and searchers must feel every inch of the Council of Skin and SCUBA Divers, and many of the area way. The water at this time of the year is clubs including the Chicago Sub-Mariners, Water about 50 degrees, and there are some very strong and Vagabonds, Chicago Frogmen, Scubateers, Fathom treacherous currents running. All in all, it was not an easy Masters, and many more. The response was terrific, On or pleasant job, but it had to be done. Sunday we were surprised as the divers continued coming, until 139 of them had checked in, coming from To continue, Lt. Spiota asked Gene what his opinion of as far away as Indiana and Wisconsin, with almost as the operation was up to that time and was told that a many unattached volunteers as club people represented. crew of 100 divers would be needed to do the job quickly and properly. This information was relayed to Chief of To assist the divers and coordinate them and the area to Detectives, Pat Deeley, and so was born Chicago Mass be covered, we had Sgt Buck in overall command. Dive, the greatest controlled search of this type ever Incidentally he is also a diver, and knows the many attempted. problems that could arise in a search of this kind. Aiding him were Officers Earl Johnson, Ray Thorpe, and our On Saturday, August 31, I received word from some of “evidence man”, detective Hebert Christoph. Herb took my friends participating in the dive, that a great number charge of all items brought up, evaluated them, and sent of SCUBA divers were being sought, and asking me to them to the crime lab for study. We also had two police contact as many as I could, and so inform them. Wishing

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boats, a small outboard, and the police personnel to run covered a lot of ground, but it was becoming very them, guard our gear, and keep back the crowds. apparent that the job was going to take a lot more time than any of us had figured on, it was here we ran into our My duty was to assign divers to teams, name team first and biggest problem, a supply of compressed air. captains and give them areas to search. We began with the harbor entrance. This area varies in width from 200 There were no compressors available in the area that feet to 600 feet and ranges in depth from 15 feet to 75 could keep up with the demand and for a while it looked feet, it was here we ran into the worse currents. We as though the operation would be stopped before we got worked this entrance floor with six teams of six men a good start. Then, Mr. Joe Koss, plant supervisor for the each, with each team being assigned a section about 100 Bastian and Blessing Company, came to our rescue. He feet wide. A line was strung from shore to shore along the told us that his plant, where there are more bottom for each teams, regulators manufactured than anywhere else in the world, and the divers made a had available high sweep six abreast, pressure pure air, and following the line to the we were welcome to as opposite shore. much of it as we might need. Thanks to this The rope was then very kind gentleman, we were able to moved over far enough http://h2odyssey.com/dive/pages/productpages/airsyst.htm so that the next pass continue. would overlap the previous one, and the sweep back On Labor Day, we picked up where we left off the day made. This method was continued until each team had before. This time we formed two large teams to work the covered its assigned area, and the watery floor was edges, and the remaining divers were put to work covered as never before. searching around the many buoys. These were worked by While the harbor entrance was being searched, another teams of two in the following manner. The divers sweep was formed under Jim O’Brien and the Frogmen, submerged and tied a light line to the buoy anchor. One who had placed their boat, the Atlantis, at our disposal. man held the line, while the other held his partners This team of thirty divers were to search the entire harness with one hand, and, to all practical purposes, shoreline to a distance of 100 feet from the harbor wall, they crawled in a complete circle around the anchor, the distance to the nearest buoys. These men used a line, feeling their way along with one hand each. Upon with Jim as anchor man, and another man on a float at completion of a pass, they moved out a few feet long the the far end of the line. The Atlantis acted a safety boat, line, and repeated the process, until they reached the and also carried replacement divers for those in the water next buoy. Then the line was moved to the next assigned who might have problems or run out of air. This sweep area, and the whole process repeated. Many divers used

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as many as six full the dive this cylinders of air a day, organization was at the and the average scene with sandwiches, throughout the week was doughnuts, coffee, milk, three cylinders of air per cold drinks, and man per day. cigarettes, all at no On Tuesday, Wednesday, charge to the divers and Thursday, Friday, and the people connected Saturday, the tedious with the dive. Our final search of the buoy area success was due in a continued. The average large part to all these manpower, because of people mentioned, and working days, was down more, and the men who to an average of twenty a worked this job are day, so progress was grateful to all of them. slow. We still had the police boats, the crews of By Sunday morning, September 8, we had which were a tremendous http://www.scubastik.com/vindicator.htm help, plus the Margaret only twenty buoys left K, Captain Michels’ 40 to cover, and with the many divers who came, we were foot power boat. Cap able to clear them in a few hours. Then came the best Michels is also an old and the easiest part, the outer shoreline for 1000 yards time diver in his own out from the harbor mouth. Here the water was no more right. There was also a than 20 feet deep, and the visibility 5 feet, a veritable police vehicle that carried Silver Springs after the darkness of the harbor proper. our empty cylinders to For this part of the operation, teams of three were Bastian and Blessings for assigned areas of 200 feet of shoreline, each overlapping. filling. Lines were fastened at the center of each area, and the teams worked out a half circle, moved out ten feet, and Last but not least by any repeated the process, until their area was covered. These means, the greatest divers were put out by the police boats, and when the morale-keeper-upper in boats made the return pickups, the most ambitious the world was the search ever attempted came to a close, successful Salvation Army for their inasmuch as the police were now reasonably certain the truck. For every day of

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murderer had disposed of any weedy body of water. While working in incriminating evidence elsewhere. about twelve feet of water, he suffered a ruthless and sneak attack by a huge (he In this volunteer effort, 227 different says) turtle, which managed to nip him divers signed in a total of 339 times, and on the foot. Nine-toe-Earl now has the put in about 1000 hours of underwater only steel tipped fins in captivity, and time. These men ranged in ability from has been shopping for a much larger the best to beginners. By taking the knife. proper precautions, our only casualties were fourteen bloody noses, four slight In closing this report, let me say that cases of cramps, and an assortment of Chicago Mass Dive was a success in cuts and bruises, none serious. On the many ways. Much was learned on search credit side, I have never seen such a fine procedure, and much was taught. The willing cooperation from a large group of Chicago Police Department, under unpaid volunteers. These men brought Commissioner Tim O’Conner will up from the bottom a vast assortment of http://www.interspiro.com/diving.htm probably form a search squad, and we cutlery ranging from bolo knives to pen knives, barrels of hope to have some civilian divers as an auxiliary part. But all sizes, hammers, chisels, wallets, and even a few guns. the biggest thing, and the point that all Chicago area The hottest item was an address book containing the divers hope to make clear, is that we have proved to all girl’s name and turned in by Joe Steffins. Apparently it concerned that we have many safe and sane divers who was thrown in the water by one of these weak-minded want very much to dive in the waters of Lake Michigan. morons who get a morbid joy out of planting false We hope the city officials, and particularly the Chicago evidence for the police to find. Through the entire Park District Board, will act to lift the ban on SCUBA operation, the men sought only the items asked for, and diving placed on Chicago’s shoreline two and a half years in the process passed up many valuable items they came ago, so that we may enjoy our sport in our own front across, so that city officials and the public would not get a yard. bad impression of the thing they were attempting to accomplish. This in itself called for almost as much will- Mayor Daily, Commissioner O’Connor, Captain Deeley, Lt. power as entering the cold, dark water in the first place. Spiota, Sgt. Bukovichak, and I would like to extend our thanks to all divers who participated in, and insured the I feel it only fair to mention the part played by our success of the greatest underwater controlled search ever bravest diver, Officer Johnson. attempted, Chicago Mass Dive. This article appeared in Skin Diver Magazine, Acting on a tip, he and Sgt. Buck November, 1957. More On This Story made a dive in the Columbus Reprinted with permission of the Park Lagoon, a real murky and Bonnier Corporation. Follows:

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Head of Missing Girl Found Off Lake Shore The facts in the case are http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/08/cold-case.html depressingly Photographs courtesy of the Chicago Tribune few and August 25, 2007 Aug. 25, 1957Chicago incredibly

tragic. On the Chicago police recovered the night of Aug. torso from a battered, cut- 16, 1957, down 55-gallon drum floating Judith Mae in Lake Michigan. A 5-gallon Andersen, 15, metal bucket containing the was supposedly head, hands and one arm watching TV at were found in the lake two the home of days later. The victim had Elena Abbatacola, 1019 N. Central Avenue. Judith was the been shot in the head at least only daughter of Ralph W. and Ruth A. Andersen, who once, maybe four times. It's also had three sons, and lived at 1520 N. Lotus Ave. She difficult to tell from news accounts. was about to enter her junior year at Austin High School. Given the location--Chicago--and the advanced method Because she was identified through fingerprints recovered of disposal--victim shot in the head (apparently with a from a picture of .32-caliber pistol), dismembered, put into metal drums Jesus in her and dumped in Lake Michigan, you might assume that the room, we can subject was a low-level mobster. You would be wrong. infer that she She was 15-year-old Judith Mae Andersen, who had no police disappeared late one Friday night, Aug. 16, 1957, while record and that walking home from visiting a girlfriend. she was at least

somewhat This unsolved killing is what Sherlock Holmes would have religious. called a three-pipe problem.

About 11 p.m., Unfortunately, the news reports don't help and in fact Judith called her hinder the dedicated and impartial inquirer. For at least mother to say the last 20 years, police and news reports have focused that she and her Detective James Hennigan, who is exclusively on an individual who has never been charged friend were assigned to the case, with some of and may have no link to the killing. watching a the files on the investigation.

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movie on TV and asked to stay until it was over. (there were various reports of people hearing shots and screams) Her mother said no, so Judith began walking home, a but nothing ever proved to be distance of 0.8 of a mile. She never arrived. On Aug. 22, conclusive and the case went into a cut-down 55-gallon drum containing a torso was found hibernation for lack of leads. at Montrose Harbor. Two days later, the head, hands and an arm were found in a 5-gallon bucket recovered from Attention eventually focused on a the same convicted sex criminal identified in area. 1987 and 1991 articles in the Chicago Tribune. However a recent According story in the Tribune withholds the to The man's identity. He was never Two months shy Times, charged in the case. from turning 16, despite the Judith Mae fingerprint In googling this killing, I discovered Andersen left her NW Side home on evidence, a website devoted to the case. It's Aug. 16, 1957 to Judith's prudent to be extremely skeptical of visit a friend. She father, websites devoted to actual crimes, never returned. Ralph, so I'm going to limit myself to what Six days later, her refused to appear to be accounts from the dismembered believe that original investigation. body was found the victim inside an oil drum was his According to a 1957 news account, floating in daughter on the night Judith disappeared, she Montrose Harbor. because the visited the home of Nancy O'Brien, Two days after that, her head and body did 222 N. Kenneth Ave. According to other body parts not bear the Chicago Sun-Times, Nancy and were found in a traces of a Judith had been dating a sailor pail. The smallpox named Kenneth Blevins stationed at gruesome crime vaccination the Norman, Okla., Naval Air Station was never solved. on her left while he was on leave in Chicago. Photo: arm. Nancy said she and Kenneth were Chicagonow.com going to get married and called Kenneth in Oklahoma to The killing touched off a massive investigation involving prove it. Kenneth told them that he loved Nancy but told large numbers of detectives. Many people called in tips the Sun-Times that he loved Judith.

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He (and I'm going to In attempting to assume this was a man-- reconstruct her last day, maybe two) must get newspapers also found control of a 15-year-old that Judith was at the girl, shoot her in the head Dairy Bar, 5156 W. several times, find a North Ave, but accounts location where he can of her visits are safely cut up the body, conflicting and dispose of the blood, put problematic. the remains in two metal drums, seal or close the Judith's father drums, load them into a supposedly called the vehicle, drive to Lake Abbatacolas to check on Michigan and dump them in Judith when she failed to Montrose Harbor. All come home. When no without getting caught. And one answered, he went I would say that the killer to the house, but no one came to the must have had a good reason for going to all of that door--at least according to an unverified account on the trouble instead of simply driving out to rural DuPage Internet. He supposedly searched the neighborhood County and throwing the victim in a culvert. without success and finally roused someone at the Abbatacola household at 2:30 a.m. He was allegedly told Here's a few of the things we don't know. (Keep in mind that Judith planned to take the bus home. that the remains had been in the water for about a week, so presumably some questions can't be answered, for According to testimony at the inquest, Elena Abbatacola example, whether she was sexually assaulted or had contacted three boys after Judith's disappearance and suffered any injuries other than being shot). told them not to reveal that they spent the evening together. For starters:  What kind of firearm was used in the killing? All right, armchair sleuths (especially those of you living Forensics should be able to tell us not only the in Chicago--you know who you are), I expect some help. caliber but identify the brand of handgun used in Let me preface this by emphasizing that superficially, at the slaying. One news account says the gun was a least, this seems to be an extremely elaborate disposal. .32-caliber revolver.

 Where was she shot? News accounts say she was Here's what the killer has to do: hit one to four times in the head, once in the

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temple. Why shoot someone four times in the head professional and if the victim when once should do the job? were a 30-year-old man instead  What kind of implement was used to dismember of a 15-year-old girl, I would her? suspect an execution by someone  How skillfully was she dismembered? Was it in organized crime. The fact that amateurish and clumsy or well-executed? nobody has ever come forward  We know the original investigators tried to with information might again determine the origin of the two metal drums. argue for a link to organized  Where did they come from? How was the 55- crime. But it's absurd and gallon drum cut down? With a welding torch? How irresponsible to speculate with so were they sealed to keep the remains from little information. escaping? The tragedy, of course, is that We may not know the killer's identity, but we can be there is no resolution to what PSDiver – A certain he had a gun and a vehicle, and because of the became of Judith Mae Andersen. Textbook for Public elaborate disposal we can probably rule out somebody Maybe at this late date, someone Safety Diving acting on the spur of the moment who suddenly finds will come forward and provide By Mark Phillips himself with a dead teenager on his hands. It is also some answers. ~ An introduction to reasonable to assume that the killer was familiar with Public Safety Diving Montrose Harbor and knew he could dump two drums in '57 cold case is and Underwater the water without being caught. I would also imagine he's rekindled Crime Scene either fairly strong to be able to lift the drums in and out Investigation Fifty years after 15-year-old of a car Click here to order Judith Mae Andersen was with a big slain, Chicago police continue to look for answers in trunk (or a pile of leads maybe he http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-08-09/news/0708081517_1_triple- had a murder-fifty-years-robert-peterson truck)--or August 09, 2007|By James Janega and Tonya Maxwell, perhaps he had help. Chicago Tribune and Tribune researcher Alan Peters contributed to this report. Tonya Maxwell is a former Frankly, Tribune staff reporter. this killing seems Late on a Friday in August half a century ago, 15-year-old quite Judith Mae Andersen called her parents to say she was

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walking home, offered a last goodnight to a friend, who have had stepped into the dark and was never again seen alive. contact with the onetime prime Her dismembered body floated up a week later in suspect since he Montrose Harbor, encased in cut-down oil drums. She moved away was the sixth child in two years murdered in an from Illinois. But increasingly horrified city, and as a dragnet fanned out in police no longer her West Side neighborhood, a disgusted city official are so convinced declared the death had set Chicago "on fire." that the man

committed the Fifty years later the crime remains unsolved, and murder, despite detectives say the lore of the case has grown to a point a lengthy where it often is at odds with the facts. Seemingly criminal record of promising leads no longer can be connected to verifiable attacks on women for which he served time. sources. Many presumed factors in the case -- including a man long assumed to be a promising suspect -- aren't The man has been named by the Tribune in past mentioned in any of the police reports of the time. investigations but is not being identified in this story As police revisit the murder of Andersen, it feels like because he has not been charged with the Andersen starting over again. "A lot of this stuff is legend," said slaying. Detective James Hennigan, the cold-case investigator who inherited the case last winter, with its three file-cabinet 'A terrible tragedy' drawers full of clues, its thousands of tips typed on As time passes, fears have grown among the victim's onionskin paper, the shattered family of its victim and a surviving family that the crime, and perhaps Andersen city's frustration. herself, will soon be forgotten entirely. "It happened," said 62-year-old James Andersen, Judith Mae's youngest Without any brother. "A terrible tragedy. So terrible, you'd think all certainty of a murders all over the world would stop, it was so payoff, horrendous." investigators again have "Justice will be served one way or another," he said, exchanged citing religious assurance in God's final judgment. "But information someone needs to make the world aware of the horrible with out-of- things that happened in 1955, '56, '57 and are still going state on. It's a call to the world to stop it." authorities

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May 2010: A Bay area NEWS woman died after her car ended up in a Reggie Roundtree shows you how to get pond. out alive August 2010: An http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=157920&catid=8 11/03/1020 elderly couple drove off a Dunedin Marina wall by accident. Some Tampa, Florida - On Videos alert rescuers smashed August 24 of this Getting out alive - Part 1 out their window and year, Lisa Sanchez More than 289 people have saved them. was driving along a died over the past five rain slicked I-275 years after they drove October 2010: A 60- when she lost control their cars into the water. year-old man loses of her SUV. She Hear from a survivor and control of his vehicle skidded and her truck how to get out alive from and crashed through a hydroplaned into the Reggie Roundtree. black water of a fence and ends up Getting out alive - Part 2 retention pond off I- submerged in a pond. More than 289 people have 275. Sanchez says, "I died over the past five Oftentimes, this scene heard a swooshing years after they drove ends in death because people in this situation. sound, water came to their cars into the water. the top of truck and I Hear from a survivor and Lisa Sanchez says, "I couldn't get my seatbelt off, I thought, 'I'm going to how to get out alive from couldn't see anything, all I was thinking about was my die, I am under the Reggie Roundtree. family and my kids." water.'" But you have to learn how to control yourself, because People accidentally driving into water and getting trapped you can get out before it's too late. So how do you in their car -- it is a scenario that happens too often. survive the incident? Under the watchful eye of Tampa Especially in the Bay area. police divers and Tampa fire paramedics, we prepared to

April 2010: A 93-year old man died after driving into submerge a car in Tampa Bay with Reggie in it.

a pond. Photo Gallery: Getting out alive

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After a safety check, the car She heard "an unusual" was propped onto the flat of a noise around 7 a.m. but tow truck rigged for release. never dreamed it could Inside were two underwater become such a tragedy. "I cameras and a backup air just feel sick about this; I tank in case of emergency. wish I had an inkling and I could have done When the car finally something," said Kully. "I submerged, the pressure of heard the noise about three the windows was about 14,000 pounds per square inch. times in a minute -- I That's when Reggie used the center punch of the corner thought it was someone of the window. The center punch is the only device you walking their dog early and can use to break the window. It's one device that can get tightening the leash." you and your family out alive. Rescue crews were called to It is also a good idea to keep something handy to cut the man-made pond after a your seatbelt. We got our center punch from Houdini witness reported seeing a Tool. woman in the water, said fire rescue spokesman Tim Wilson. Search and rescue equipment and officials -- Residents hear screams, body found including fire trucks, rescue boats, divers from the http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/11/03/15935216.html Northern Alberta Aquatic Rescue Society and EMS -- November 3, 2010 By JASMINE FRANKLIN, QMI Agency converged on scene.

EDMONTON - Police are probing the death of a 25-year- STARS air ambulance flew overhead in an effort to spot old woman pulled from a Mill Woods pond after a five- any sign of the woman from the sky. hour search-and-rescue effort. At one point, five boats were searching the pond in No foul play is suspected, but investigators are now trying addition to a dog from the Search and Rescue Dog to determine just how the woman ended up in the water Association of Alberta. The dog was in a rescue boat, near 55 Street and 28 Avenue around 8 a.m. Tuesday, attempting to pick up any human scent on the water. her screams heard by a number of nearby residents. "A diver with the Aquatic Rescue Society located the body Violet Kully, 77, lives on the first floor in a corner unit just after 1 p.m. Police are now investigating," said near the pond that is as deep as15 feet in some spots. Wilson.

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"I heard a woman jumped from the bridge," said one Services resident, who did not want to be named. Investigations then The pond is located just east of Mill Woods Town Centre determined and about one block from the southeast division police that the bone station. was indeed human. It will Police investigate human jawbone found be turned at Lake Mead over to the Mohave http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13452849 County Nov 05, 2010 VIDEO ON SITE Coroner.

Las Vegas Metro Police divers were searching Lake Mead on Friday for Police find human remains in canal human remains after a visitor there http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21002703424547/ 11/10/10 found a human jawbone Thursday morning. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police are seeking

the public's help in identifying a murder victim whose The bone was found at around remains were placed in a South Florida canal. 10:30am on the Arizona side of the Police investigate lake near the east basin area. human jawbone Fort Lauderdale Police found at Lake held a news Mead conference to discuss 2:04 a homicide investigation into the Metro police were remains, Tuesday immediately called, afternoon. According who then informed to investigators, a the park rangers homeowner found the remains in a container near about the find. Northeast 26th Street and Federal Highway over the

weekend. The homeowner said he found the container, A special which weighed about 175 pounds, floating in the canal. investigator for the National Park

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"It had a stench to it that I knew wasn't normal," said the was found to homeowner. try to locate more clues to Police said, the container was filled with concrete and also the identity of contained a pair of gray size 10 New Balance sneakers the victim. and eyeglasses prescribed for a farsighted person. Fort "We're trying to Lauderdale Police Sergeant Frank Sousa said, "When you find more body opened it, you could see one of the sneakers, so parts," said obviously, the sneaker was detached from the body part." Sousa.

Police said, the victim appears to be a white adult male, Residents in the about 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet in height. According to area were authorities, the victim's body was hacked into several shocked by the gruesome discovery. "It's frightening to pieces. The victim was killed sometime last week, and think that this is happening in your neighborhood, and police speculate the container with his remains was in the who knows if whoever has done whatever lives in your canal for three to four days before it was discovered. neighborhood as well," said Karen Marsal, who lives near "They went to great the canal. lengths to dispose of it in a manner that we Police are now looking for the person responsible for this wouldn't be able to heinous crime. According to authorities, they have not identify the victim," said found anything that leads them to believe this murder is Sousa. tied to the mob or any other type of organized crime. "We don't have reason to believe, at this point, that it'd be Investigators would not mob-related based on the nature that it was done, but elaborate on what body again, I think one of the important things for the general parts were found in the public to understand: whoever did this was heinous. container. Sousa said, Whoever did this had no regard. Whoever did this went to "There's body parts in this great lengths to conceal the identity of this victim," Sousa container. What body said. "To kill somebody is cold, but then to go and parts we have, at this violently sever their body parts in the manner that this point, we're not at liberty person did this is just unexplainable." to release at this point." If you have any information on this murder, call Broward Police divers searched the County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you canal where the container

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can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible the population varies. Boats are the number one source for a reward. of sea pollution. Every single piece of trash you throw into the sea is ruining the habitats of marine species. For Bosphorus akin to a trash can, says example, a tire takes 450 years to dissolve. As they Turkish NGO dissolve, tires poison the environment,” said Hakan http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=using-the-bosphorus-as-a-trash- Tiryaki, chief of the Underwater Cleaning Movement, or can-2010-11-09 STH. Friday, November 19, 2010 STH is a nongovernmental organization dedicated to ISTANBUL – raising peoples’ awareness of sea pollution. “By diving at Hürriyet - 250 crowded places, we wanted to highlight the concept of divings since 2005 by sea pollution,” Tiryaki said. the divers of the Underwater Cleaning Unfortunately, regardless of the beauty of the view of the Movement, or STH, Bosphorus from above, the situation below is a totally show how filthy the different story. A brief catalog of some of the articles of underwater of trash STH has found in the strait reflects the various Bosphorus. The socio-cultural differences articles of trash STH of the Istanbul has found in the neighborhoods near where strait reflects the Divers recover everything from they were discovered. A various socio-cultural sofas and wardrobes to cables, vendor’s cart sits immobile differences of the paint boxes, batteries, tires, on the seabed off the coast Istanbul pendants, wheel rims and New of Eminönü, good luck neighborhoods near Year decorations. Hürriyet photo charms glitter on the where they were discovered. A vendor’s cart sits seabed at Üsküdar and immobile on the seabed off the coast of Eminönü, good Stanley knives stab the luck charms glitter on the seabed at Üsküdar and Stanley coast of Kadıköy. knives stab the coast of Kadıköy All right, but is all the The Bosphorus Strait, so beautiful from above, could be trash in the Bosphorus equally impressive below, but members of a non discarded unconsciously? governmental organization who have dived into the “A truck battery can only straight 250 times since 2005 say it is filthy. “Everywhere be carried by two or three there are people; there is pollution; only the density of people. Something that

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heavy cannot fall into the sea accidentally. A 12-square- Year meter piece of flooring cannot accidentally fall into the decorations. sea. There are plenty of plastic bags and other kinds of During a waste you would expect to find down there. This is four-week normal. But dropping a panel radiator into the water diving accidentally is not possible,” Tiryaki said. session, a total of Most areas of the Bosphorus where the STH collects its 11,503 pieces data are suitable for diving, and the group only dives on of solid waste certain days in order to maintain an accurate catalog of were what they discover on the seabed. Accordingly, the group removed is able to compare the differences, for example, across from the two days of findings. area. Subsequently, divers retrieved a further 15,000 pieces of solid waste. Thousands of pieces of trash collected off near Harem The Üsküdar seabed is also littered with an emporium of Diving at Harem is a bit different however, as a long-term solid waste, accommodating litter thrown from cleanup of the area has been going on for some time. restaurants and boats, kettles, salt shakers, jars, plates, television stands and remote controls, doormats and STH has already collected specimens from a large part of cleaning materials. Seven padlocks were found, which are the old Karaköy seaport after it was moved to Harem. believed to bring good luck if discovered unlocked and Pieces of trash found there included almost everything sadness otherwise. Other waste off the coast of Üsküdar from included Harry Potter books, Muazzez Ersoy tapes, sofas and Bridget Jones CDs, shopping carts, concrete pots closets to originally installed along the cost by the municipality and cables, four jawbones, which are thought to have been used in paint witchcraft. boxes, batteries, Free Akbils at Kadıköy tires, A total of 22 Akbils were retrieved from the seabed at pendants, Kadıköy. “Obviously, an official in the area dumped them wheel all into the water at the same time,” Tiryaki said. rims, X- ray films and New

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At the end of a dive in 2006 Another dive at Eminönü in 2008 recovered a car tire, two off the coast of bicycles, a wrought iron flower stand, a nargile water Caddebostan, numerous pipe, a sewing machine, an assortment of brushes, a fire glass bottles, 180 plastic extinguisher, a kettle, toys and a newspaper stand. bags and countless picnic paraphernalia were The team has dived almost every year at Karaköy since retrieved. 2005, with the most visible pile of waste on the seabed being a forest of fishhooks. Thousands of lead sinkers, The team has discovered artificial bait and a tangle of fishing line litter the sea bed, Suadiye’s coast is as well as drink bottles, diamond cutters, tiles, a tennis comparatively unpolluted. racket, a microphone, a manicure set, a radio, a In their first dives in the handgun, a barbeque, a barbecue chimney, an identity area they retrieved only 11 card, a knife, a Bible and an assortment of wallets, plastic bags and chip thought to have been thrown into the sea by thieves, packets, 12 metal bars and were retrieved. some rope. During a dive in 2006, the team also A dog collar at Bebek retrieved a fax machine, a To date, a total of eight doormat, 15 tires and boat dives have been parts, however they acknowledge that pollution in the conducted at Ortaköy, area is comparatively low. with materials removed ranging from a urinal, Dives throughout 2009 proved the cleanest part of the supermarket shelving, a Bosphorus was Kuzguncuk. A mere 37 pieces of trash – municipal park bench, a wood, glass bottles, cups, rakı glasses, broken porcelain school desk, a two-meter plates and a broom – were retrieved. glass rod, two big pots and a ledger apparently Eminönü, the most ‘cosmopolitan’ logging the financial Dives in 2006 revealed the seabed off the coast of activity of some kind of Eminönü to contain one of the Bosphorus’ most eclectic illegal trafficking. collections of solid waste, which included a city police Divers in front of Bebek cart, a cell phone, an iron, an assortment of bottles, a Park retrieved three wedding ring, pieces of metal, eight blocks of glass, a set automobile batteries, a of pincers and a pair of handcuffs. park bench with concrete

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legs, a recycling and provides wheelchairs for people with spatula, a disabilities. Plastic bottle lids are collected and sold as kettle, a dog plastic junk, with the proceeds going to purchase collar, a wheelchairs. The biggest supporter of the campaign is the sack of Aegean University’s School of Dentistry. mussels, a pair of The International Center for the Disabled in Ankara is the pants, a center of the campaign. So far, nine tons of bottle lids towel and a have been collected in Istanbul, eight tons in İzmir and potato. four tons in Ankara.

Foça is “We are sending recycling bins to campaign participants. also like Harem If people wish, they can be a part of the project even STH has dived in a number of different coastal areas in using a different bin,” Ataşehir Mayor Battal İlgezdi said. Turkey, and the situation is not much different than what they discovered in the Bosphorus. At Altınkum in Didim, The municipality has so far sent about 400 kilograms of four divers retrieved 600 pieces of solid waste. bottle lids to the firm buying the plastic junk to pay for as many wheelchairs as the campaign can purchase. “There The seabed beneath marinas in particular is in very poor are 45 applications for wheelchairs. Normally, one condition, Tiryaki said. At the Aegean resort of Foça, the kilogram of the junk plastic is worth 55 kuruş, but the situation is nearly as bad as it is in Istanbul’s Harem, with campaign receives 95 kuruş per kilo,” İlgezdi said. a total of 10,000 pieces of solid waste collected from the seabed there. With discounted wheelchairs also being made available to the Çanakkale Port is as badly contaminated as the campaign, a Bosphorus, Tiryaki said. chair normally Something should be done sold for 400 Many social responsibility projects kill two birds with one Turkish Liras stone. A campaign titled “Ataşehir collecting caps, will only cost removing obstacles,” launched by the Ataşehir the Municipality is one of them. campaign 200 liras. To Begun on April 22 and scheduled to run until Dec. 30, the date, campaign both raises awareness of the benefits of collected

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bottle lids have paid for about 100 wheelchairs. tube,” he said. “On closer “Underwater examination, it was found to be Plastic bottle lids can be donated to the Ataşehir Municipal marked ‘explosive’.” Crime Scene Environment Protection and Control Directorate, which Insp Waghorn said police divers found Investigation” can be contacted by telephone at 0216 570 5099. several more explosives when By Eric Tackett conducting a search of the river. Deadly catch: Young angler reels in explosive Bomb Response Supervisor Sergeant http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Deadly-catch- Jodie Pearson said it was the first Young-angler-reels-in-explosive/7575768/ time in her 12 years with the Bomb 23/Nov/2010 By Liam Croy, Eastern Reporter Squad that explosives had been reported found in a river. She said A BOY police believed the explosives were fishing at dumped illegally. Bassendea n’s “We can’t identify where the Out of print Pickering explosives have come from,” Sgt and very hard Park Pearon said. “The most likely thing is to find! We earlier this that someone just wanted to get rid found a small month of it and dumped them in the river. hoard and hooked a “It obviously became a public safety have them once-in-a- concern so we had divers come out here for you! lifetime and search that entire area. catch PSDiver Danger in the deep. when he “There are and currents, but Monthly reeled in a stick of explosive. The boy was at the river based on their expertise we’re Subscriber with his father just after sunset when he pulled in a small confident that we recovered all of it.” Price white tube of Powergel explosive. Sgt Pearson urged people want-ing to $20.00! dispose of explosives legally to Acting inspector John Waghorn said police were called to contact the Department of Mines and On Sale HERE! the scene and seized the object before notifying the Bomb Petroleum. “If they don’t have any Squad. success, contact police and we can have someone with explosives knowledge take it off their hands.” “The man and others were fishing at Pickering Park on the western bank of the river when his son pulled in a white

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Belanglo accused 'a blathering mess' alleged murder and that http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/23/3074362.htm?section=justin he had no knowledge of Nov 23, 2010 or involvement in the crime. Map: Tahmoor 2573

Related Story: Belanglo teen killed with axe, court His lawyer, Elias told Tabchouri, says his client was simply in the worst A court has possible place at the heard a man worst possible moment. charged with "It was all over before he being an knew what was going to accessory to happen," he said. a murder in the Belanglo According to facts State Forest tendered to the court, is Klein told police he saw traumatised the accused hit the victim and over the head with an inconsolable. Police divers are still searching a axe. Klein says he was small dam at Tahmoor for a possible asked to help hide the body in bushland but refused. Cohen Klein, murder weapon. (NSW Police) 18, was The prosecution has opposed bail for Klein, saying he is a denied bail in the Goulburn Local Court on Tuesday flight risk and there is a strong case against him. afternoon. Magistrate Geraldine Beattie refused bail and the matter has been adjourned for three weeks. On Sunday police found the body of David Auchterlonie, 17, in the forest in the New South Wales southern Outside the court Mr Tabchouri says his client did not highlands. have anything to do with the crime. "The family is obviously very distressed that he wasn't granted bail," he Klein, along with another 18-year-old, has been charged said. "He had no idea what was going to happen on that as an accessory to murder. Another teenager has been night. That's been made clear to everyone. The police charged with Mr Auchterlonie's murder. The defence told evidence indicates that." the court Klein has been a blathering mess since the

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The teenager charged with the murder of Mr Auchterlonie wedding rings. "There's always is a relative of notorious serial killer Ivan Milat. The forest something in there," said OSU is the same place Milat dumped the bodies of seven Police dispatcher Jeffrey backpackers he murdered in the 1990s. Hustak.

Police divers are still searching a small dam at Tahmoor The team clears out the lake for a possible murder weapon. and recovers debris using a technique called grid training. Mirror Lake serves as training ground for Police lay down lines criss- dive teams crossing the lake, and a diver http://www.thelantern.com/campus/mirror-lake-serves-as-training-ground-for- inspects the water one grid at dive-teams-1.1796246 a time. "We use our hands and November 23, 2010 Ally Marotti Slideshow on Site we feel for things," Sacksteder said. The Forensic Teacher Tuesday night, Mirror Lake became a wading pool for Online thousands of students at Ohio State. Earlier in the day, it Divers Tuesday found cement theforensicteacher.com was a training ground for the Columbus Police Underwater blocks, beer bottles and other flotsam. The training team Search and Recovery Team. consisted of about six officers, Sacksteder said, and about four went into the water. Divers trained under water from The gets 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. permission to use the lake During Michigan Week last year, OSU let the Columbus with the stipulation that it Police dive team use Mirror Lake for joint training with the clear as much debris as fire department dive team. possible from the water. "It's two-fold. It allows us to do The Columbus Fire Department dive team was scheduled some cold-water diving," said to dive between 1 and 4 p.m. Tuesday, but no one from Sgt. Jeffrey Sacksteder of the department arrived. Officials from the department Columbus Police. "It allows were unavailable to comment. OSU to say that the lake is clear of any debris." Although Sacksteder said he doubted the divers Tuesday could see the bottom of the deep end, he said Mirror Lake In the past, debris recovered isn't totally opaque. It's murky, he said, but the dive in Mirror Lake has included team wasn't fazed. "We dive a lot. Mirror Lake is bicycles, grocery carts, a nothing," Sacksteder said. "It's just another environment http://t-rescue.com large stuffed chair and for us to dive in."

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Human Remains Found In Submerged Lake City police Capt. Car - Vehicle Matches That Of 72-Year-Old Lake This story has been John Blanchard said City Man Missing Since 2006 updated: there were never any http://www.news4jax.com/news/25907598/detail.html Update: Trenton Elderly Wednesday, November 24, 2010 leads in Watson's Couple Deaths Ruled disappearance. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police divers checking out a car found in a pond next to Mandarin High School on Tuesday Police said no foul play was suspected. However, divers afternoon have located human remains inside. were back in the water Wednesday morning looking for any other evidence because it has become a homicide The car matches one driven by a 72-year-old Lake City investigation. man missing since March 2006. Elderly Trenton Couple Found Dead In Divers were called to the pond on Greenland Road after Submerged Vehicle someone reported seeing a car in the water. Police http://www.wabi.tv/news/15887/elderl initially said no y-trenton-couple-found-dead-in- submerged-vehicle one was inside the November 24th 2010 by vehicle but that it Rob Poindexter - VIDEO appeared the car ON ALL SITES had been in the water for a long Tremont - An elderly time. couple from Trenton has been found dead inside a While the identity Divers returned Wednesday to the car submerged in the ocean of the person in in the town. the car will be Greenland Road pond where a car was found submerged Tuesday established by an evening. The Maine Marine Patrol autopsy, Lake City says 92-year-old Lewis The days of dragging police said the vehicle Lawton and his 86-year-old your fins in and out of the was a 1993 Saturn This story is a follow up to: wife, Inez, were inside the water are finally over! registered to Francis vehicle. 1-877-FlipFin Watson, who was Two Dead in Seal Cove Incident OmegaAquatics.com reported missing on Authorities received a 911 March 13, 2006. call around 7:30 this morning. A carpenter on his way to

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many vehicles from over here, I'd say at least 5 I've seen disciplinary charge after a finding was made they were in the last 20 years,” said Lozie not obliged to obey the order due to health considerations. PSNI diver's overtime payment bid rejected by court The judge set out how Constable Lloyd claimed the disciplinary proceedings "sounded the death knell for the http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11876736 dedicated PSNI diving team". 30 November 2010 Members had been expected to carry a radio pager and The High Court has dismissed a be available for operational call-out at all times, barring claim by a former police diver that only sickness and annual leave. They were on 24-hour he is owed £32,000 for on-call call-out and entitled to no special allowances other than payments. those within the normal finance code regulations.

Constable Mark Lloyd argued he was entitled to money he Constable Lloyd's barrister argued he was required to be accumulated during a 15-year period when he was immediately available for diving duties outside scheduled expected to be available around the clock. His application hours at all times. for a judicial review was dismissed despite a judge ruling he could qualify for allowances for individual periods. 'Irrational' Any suggestion that he and other unit members were The judge said that payments were subject to a three merely volunteers was also claimed to be misconceived month time limit. and irrational. Lawyers for the PSNI equated being on call

with being expected to receive a pager or mobile phone Constable Lloyd was part of the underwater search unit call. which the PSNI operated until it was outsourced to a private sector provider in 2008. It emerged during the Ruling on the case, Mr Justice McCloskey held there was case that Constable Lloyd and other members of the team no error of law on reasons based on the finance code faced disciplinary proceedings linked to the sinking of a regulations. He said: "It follows that the appropriate order trawler in the Irish Sea in January 2006. will be a dismissal of the application for judicial review."

Skiing holiday However, the judge noted that another of the PSNI's He refused, along with two others, to perform diving basic reasons for refusing the on-call allowance claim was duties at the time as they were all due to go on a skiing legally incorrect. He added: "It is conceivable that the holiday, the court heard. A stand-off developed during applicant's legal advisers may formally request the which the officers' leave was cancelled and they then respondent (the PSNI) to reconsider its rejection of the reported unfit for duty. But they were acquitted of the applicant's exceptional circumstances claim."

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Needed NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Scott W. Lang said the capture From Homeland Security Network News of two Palestinian stowaways aboard a Liberian freighter on Saturday highlights the need for the Coast Guard to Join the Homeland Security Network and get a free return to the city's port. "This is just another reason why subscription to The Counter Terrorist magazine for 6 months! Register here: HomelandSecuritynet.com we want them back on the water," the mayor said late Sunday afternoon, explaining that he has been trying to New Bedford, MA Mayor Scott W. get the Coast Guard to return to New Bedford since 2006. Lang said the recent discovery of two "We're the number one fishing port in the country and Palestinian stowaways aboard a one of the top working waterfronts. I would love to have Liberian freighter, highlights the need the Coast Guard back here."

to expand coastal security. Coast Guard officials could not be reached for comment Sunday night. Points to consider: Consider that terrorism has become a Lang said he has expressed his preference for the Coast trans-national issue making border security our first line Guard to return to New Bedford many times to Capt. of defense against terrorists. The government uses Verne B. Gifford, commander of Sector Southeastern New technology as much as possible, to develop to England, and will do so the next time he sees him. help with this enormous task. According to the U.S. The Coast Guard left New Bedford in September 2003 Geological Survey (USGS), the length of the International after fighting rum runners and drug smugglers, and Boundary line of the U.S.-Canadian border, excluding protecting fishermen for more than a century from the Alaska, is approximately 3,987 miles, while the length of port. the U.S.-Mexican border is estimated at 1,933 miles. The length of the Alaska-Canada border alone is 1,538 miles. In the hopes of improving homeland security while Additionally, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric expanding its more traditional missions, the Coast Guard Administration (NOAA) has surveyed the “general relocated the Tahoma and the Campbell, two 270-foot coastline” based on large scale nautical charts, resulting cutters from New Bedford, to the Portsmouth Naval in a coastline measure for the 50 states totaling 12,383 Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. miles.

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The Coast Guard said at the time that the move would Police swept the ship with bomb-sniffing dogs and a state allow it to expand its coastal security mission while police dive team checked the hull for any "abnormalities." continuing fisheries enforcement and search-and-rescue A security guard stationed behind a locked gate at missions. Maritime Terminal prevented access except to authorized personnel Sunday afternoon to the terminal, where the The two Palestinian stowaways were still yet to be freighter was docked. identified Sunday, but were in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Ross Kristen Decas, executive director of the Harbor Feinstein, an ICE spokesman. Development Commission, said Sunday that workers are off-loading 2,500 pallets of clementines from North Africa Federal officials said that the stowaways posed no threat from Prince of Sounds. She said that, weather permitting; to national security. Feinstein said they were trying to the freighter is scheduled to leave New Bedford on make their way to Canada and the investigation is Tuesday. continuing as a stowaway/human smuggling Lang said Prince of Sounds is one of about 35 Feinstein and Ted Woo, a spokesman for ships that will use the city's harbor in the the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, next few months to off-load cargo. both declined Sunday to answer any other questions about the incident. Decas said Sunday a ship has been off- The 455-foot-long Liberian freighter, loading cargo over the weekend at State Pier Prince of Sounds, bound for New Bedford and is scheduled to leave today; two with a cargo of citrus fruit, was searched additional ships are waiting to come into the by law enforcement agencies for port. "We have what we consider to be an explosives and weapons Saturday before active shipping week," she said. it was allowed to enter the city's port following the discovery of the stowaways Lang said each ship represents an "economic on Thursday in a forward crane pedestal stimulus" for the city and the region, or about by a boatswain's mate on the freighter. $250,000 between salaries, supplies and fees.

The arrival of so many cargo ships in the The New Bedford-Fairhaven Bridge was coming months is the reason Lang said he shut down for several hours Saturday wants "a factual accounting" of the stowaway afternoon for the operations. incident aboard Prince of Sounds. The Coast Guard was not able to board He added the thorough handling of the the ship until Saturday because of bad stowaway incident sends a clear message weather. that officials will be vigilant when cargo ships

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tissues at different and times and violation of the NDL (no- limits) is a major cause of DCS.

Online  Inadequate surface intervals (failure to Ernest Campbell, MD, FACS decrease accumulated nitrogen). Surface times are Comprehensive information about outlined for various diving profiles and failure to diving and undersea medicine for the adhere to the prescribed length of time does not non-medical diver, the non-diving physician and the allow "off-gassing" of onboard nitrogen. The specialist. accumulated nitrogen is then added to by the next http://www.scuba-doc.com dive, increasing the risk of DCS.

 Flying or going to higher altitude soon after diving (12-24 hours), which increases the pressure Prevention of Decompression gradient. This in reality is a continuation of an ascent from a dive. This allows any nitrogen that is Accidents in the tissues to come out of and form Compiled and maintained by Ernest S Campbell, MD bubbles, leading to DCS.

 Individual physiological differences that have been traditionally thought of as increasing the risk Some Causes of Decompression Accidents of DCS are as follows: o Dehydration: This is probably the most The best way to categorize the various ways a diver can important of the predisposing factors. Taking prevent the occurrence of DCS is by looking for the in adequate quantities of water (8-10 causes of the accident. glasses/day).This is needed to counteract the drying effect of compressed air and the Some predisposing causes for DCS are as follows: obligatory that all divers get from immersion. Dehydration, due to any cause  Inadequate decompression or violating the (coffee, oral diuretics, alcohol, vomiting and no-decompression limits. By surfacing too diarrhea states, failure to drink non-alcoholic rapidly and not taking safety stops a diver allows liquids) bubbles to form and to get larger as the pressure differential decreases. Nitrogen loads in all the

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o Pre-existing illness affecting lung or supplied with blood vessels and decreased circulatory efficiency: The lung acts as a (ability to off-gas) can lead to filter for the bubbles that occur in all divers. DCS. Chronic lung disease, heart failure both tend to increase the risk of DCS. Decreased o Fatigue: This clouds the decision making perfusion from any source can increase the process, often leading to mistakes and DCS. possibility of DCS. Intracardiac septal defect Fatigue is also a subtle symptom of (PFO) bypasses the filtering effect of the . Exertion during the lungs and increases risk of bubbles. deep part of the dive is a risk factor. Undeserved DCS (DCS that has no other causative factors) should have investigation o Age: The older diver has long been thought for this entity. to be have increased tendencies to have DCS. Studies done by the Navy show a o Scar tissue from previous injury: (scar definite increase in DCS in older divers (all tissue decreases ). Areas of under 50 years of age). Other studies have decreased and increased blood flow have not borne this out. Older divers have a been incriminated in leading to DCS. higher percentage of body fat. Age and Whether this is operative in the growth obesity: risk possibly increases in proportion plates of teenagers is unknown. Nitrogen off- to increase in age. Greater age and higher gassing is influenced by factors that alter fat content are traditionally associated with perfusion. increased incidence of DCS but the evidence is not consistent, recent reports showing no o Previous DCS with residual neurological relationship. disturbances. These people should not resume diving. Chronic neurological Effects o Poor physical condition: Good physical of Diving fitness increases perfusion and ensures good . o Gender; women have been shown to have a slightly higher rate of DCS, particularly o Exercise after diving increases the during the menses. incidence of DCS from 22% to 46%. Exercise at depth is detrimental, increasing nitrogen o Obesity (nitrogen is soluble). Several uptake. (Requiring three times the studies have incriminated obesity as a factor decompression). Immersion in cold water in increasing the risk of DCS. Fat is poorly with exercise causes increased incidence of

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DCS. Exercise while decompressing is Diving on the edge of No-decompression limits beneficial. Deep or repetitive dives using computer outside the limits of the tables or no-decompression limits Flying after diving * Diving at altitude

Environmental factors that are important include the following: There are other factors that are thought to increase the chances of getting DCS but have little data in support;  Cold water (vasoconstriction decreases nitrogen some of these are: off-loading). Warm water immersion (vasodilation) and the head down position increases nitrogen  Alcohol and hangover state (related to elimination. dehydration)  Heavy work (vacuum effect in which tendon use  Medical problems increasing the viscosity of the causes gas pockets). Exercise at depth increases blood (Sickle cell anemia and trait) nitrogen uptake and is detrimental.  Injury to muscle, bone or joint (due to increased  Rough sea conditions blood flow to inflamed area)  Heated diving suits (leads to dehydration)  Rate of ascent  Divers who have been chilled on  Repetitive, multiday dives after a long lay-off; deep decompression dives (or dives near the no- prolonged air diving decompression limit) and take very hot baths or  Failure to do safety stops showers may stimulate bubble formation.  Patent foramen ovale  Smoking habits  Adaptation or recent diving history Sport divers mainly need to avoid dehydration, dive  Underestimated depth shallower, ascend slower and spend more time between  Table "fudging" dives eliminating nitrogen.  Neurological DCS symptoms are most common after short, deep dives. less common after altitude exposure, slow saturation decompression and low- Here are some of the factors found to increase the risk of pressure caisson exposure. decompression accidents:  Slow ascent near the surface more effective in reducing neurologic DCS than was slow ascent from Repetitive diving depth. Exceeded No-decompression limits  Fewer VGE with short safety stops. (venous gas Running out of air, rapid ascent emboli)

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 Off-gassing greatest in subjects tilted head down, immersed in warm water and exercising. Increasing venous return to the thorax increases off- * EVENTS* gassing.(Head down tilt)

 Exercise in warm water immersion decreases DCS (decrease by about 30%)  Some believe that the use of aspirin might help International Workboat Show 2010 prevent the adherence of platelets to bubbles, Dec 1 -3, 2010 thereby reducing the chance of bubble damage. New Orleans, LA

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assess currents.

PSDiver Monthly Continuing a. True b. False

Education 6) Divers should be tied together instead of teathered.

PSDM-CE-79 working a. True b. False

1) Select the Basic search pattern: 7) For large area of search you should use:

a. Arc a. More divers b. b. Longer dive times c. Circle c. Sonar d. All of the above d. Dogs e. Only C & D 2) Recovery dives start: 8) Only one type of a boat should be used for a. Immediately on arrival multiteam divers so that every one knows b. As soon as two divers are on scene exactly what to do. c. After a dive plan is selected d. All of the above a. True b. False

3) When multi teams are diving it is best 9) All items found are evidence.

to: a. True b. False

a. Use the ICS system 10) Turtles cannot bite underwater. b. Let teams work under their direct control c. Use only one team at a time a. True b. False d. Any of the above 11) Search patterns used today are:

4) On recovery dives when air is limited you can a. New patterns use ______grade of air. b. Old and established

a. Grade C c. Only previously designed and tested b. Grade D d. A & B c. Grade E 12) The 1957 Montrose Harbor search: d. All of the above a. was effective in accomplishing the 5) For basic search patterns you do not need to objective of completely searching the

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harbor for evidence 16) Quote taken from the Montrose Harbor search b. would be considered OSHA compliant story: “My duty was to assign divers to teams, c. should be used as a model for current day name team captains and give them areas to large scale search.” If ICS was around when this search d. put untrained divers at risk was being conducted, these divers would be part of a 13) Montrose volunteer divers a. group a. proved their was no further evidence in b. division the harbor c. command staff b. were qualified to do the job d. branch c. Proved that with proper training, volunteer divers have the motivation and 17) During support operations, the Salvation Army enthusiasm to be used as a valuable asset no longer provides

with search and recovery operations a. meals d. all of the above b. snacks

c. coffee 14) If the 1957 Montrose Harbor search was d. cigarettes conducted today

a. evidence recovery procedures would 18) Volunteer divers in the Montrose Harbor be considered professional search provided enough evidence to solve the b. evidence recovery procedures would case.

be considered sloppy a. True b. False c. SAR dive professionals would confidently agree that the entire 19) The article describes evidence in this crime area was adequately searched scene as being collected in accordance with d. dive teams would be rendered SOPs that could aid with legal proceedings.

obsolete a. True b. False

15) In the history of your city/county, searches 20) Today, it would be feasible that a volunteer such as the Montrose Harbor scene with technical knowledge but no connection to (operational scale varies) were standard for any search and rescue organization could be that time. put in charge of a large scale operation.

a. True b. False a. True b. False

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Team Discussion: The Chicago Mass Dive took place in 1957. At the time, there were NO formal scuba training agencies yet a * Analyze and evaluate the search patterns used in the general call for assistance brought over 100 scuba divers Chicago Mass Dive article. to the site – and they came with their own dive gear.

* Compare and contrast basic dive training in 1957 to * If it is determined that 100 divers are needed for a current certification standards. search, what options are available. Discuss mutual aid, technology, risk/benefit of a rapid search verses an * How did divers receive training in 1957? extended search. * What was the significance of the Illinois Council of Skin and Scuba divers ant he vast number of dive clubs? * What bodies of water in your jurisdiction would make an attractive body dump site and what sort of pre-plan is in * How do you think recreationally certified divers today place to deal with effective evidence recovery and would fare in the Montrose Harbor search scenario? documentation of the crime scene? * Describe some of the possible ways this Montrose * How would the organizational structure of the Montrose search could have ended badly.

Harbor search compare to a search with SAR teams under * List the potential the volunteer recreational ICS? divers faced and what sort of safety precautions should be in place for the Montrose Harbor scenario if it were to 1946 Cousteau's Aqua Lung is marketed commercially in be undertaken by current day dive team(s). France 1952 Cousteau's Aqua Lung is marketed commercially in * What modern equipment and / or technologies could be the USA adapted to search that same are today if the need arose?

1953 British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) * In a worst case scenario, if YOUR team, as it is now, Based in the United Kingdom, founded in 1953 and is was faced with a multi agency response for a high profile the largest dive club in the world target, what would you do? As a team, work a tabletop 1959 YMCA begins the first nationally organized course exercise of the Chicago Mass Dive and see. for scuba certification. 1960 NAUI is formed 1966 PADI is born EXTRA CREDIT Self-grading Quiz for 1969 American Canadian Underwater Certifications (ACUC) (Formerly called the Association of Canadian Prevention of Decompression Underwater Councils) – originated in Canada in 1969 Accidents and expanded internationally in 1984

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