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Psdiver Monthly Issue 79 PSDiver Monthly Issue 79 Greetings, We try to keep our subject matter and topics both current and relevant and offer subscribers the opportunity to I attended DEMA last month in Las Vegas and was discuss issues in an open forum on a Moderated Yahoo pleasantly surprised and humbled at the recognition Discussion Group. Sponsors / Advertisers or any PSDiver and PSDiver Monthly has acquired. After 7 years corporate representatives are encouraged to participate of work, the magazine and the work we do has finally and offer their expertise to this group. We just do not come of age. Thank you for that. allow the forum to be used for advertising. The group is We have six new sponsors to introduce to the magazine the largest of its kind and currently has over 1,600 and hope some of the contacts we made at DEMA will members world wide representing most every training lead to more over the next month or two. agency, major manufacturer and numerous government and military teams. For those of you who were not with us at the beginning, HYBRID VEHICLE PSDiver Monthly was introduced as a concept in 2003 at PSDiver Monthly is DEMA. The goal and intention of PSDiver Monthly was to housed at EMERGENCY RESOURCE bring information to the Public Safety Diving community www.PSDiver.com. GUIDES in a way that was unique, educational and most PSDiver.com is a free resource site Download file at the PSDiver.com importantly – free to subscribers. We started with a web site or click HERE handful of sponsors and 235 subscribers. that contains a variety of information, documents, videos and both the Since the initial launch in December of 2003, our email current and archived issues of PSDiver Monthly. subscriber base has grown to over 13,000 active email contacts. Because we are Internet only, our subscriber Most recently we have had discussions on hybrid vehicles base is world wide with our highest membership being in and how or if they pose a danger to divers if the vehicle is the USA. We use Constant Contact as a permission based submerged. There is a new file posted on PSDiver.com email distribution source and send out a notice to our that includes a good number of links to the Emergency email subscribers that a new issue is available for Response Guides for most of the hybrid and alternate fuel source vehicles on the market right now. download. We do not offer a print version. The focus of PSDiver Monthly is on water rescue and In this issue we have the opportunity to see where our recovery and underwater crime scene investigation. We discipline of diving has come from and compare it to what we do today. include articles, news, medical information, events and a If you would like to discuss continuing education program as part of our regular Stay Safe, this topic or any other, join features. We occasionally offer product reviews but only if Mark Phillips they are conducted by an outside / neutral source. Editor / Publisher our discussion group at: PSDiver Monthly CLICK HERE TO JOIN PSDiver Monthly Issue 79 2 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 PSDiver Monthly Issue 79 3 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 temperature 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 PSDiver Monthly Issue 79 4 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 pressure 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.
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