The special ops of Austin Police is preparing for underwater centers

Austin, Texas – – The Austin Police Department's diving team is prepared because more people were hit in the water this summer.

Austin Police Special Ops diving team

The background story:

“It is rare that we don't find what we are looking for,” said the police from Austin, Sergeant Issa Kafena.

The search under water is very different from the search above.

“Diving is actually the most dangerous task that we are based on the risks that are inherent in diving, be it decompression problems or dangers under water, such things,” said Kafena. “Usually you can't see two or three inches in front of your face, so you feel with your hands.”

The Austin Police Special Ops Dive Team is trained for underwater missions. They are used when the depths of the water become a crime scene.

“We go to Lady Bird Lake, we go to the Austinsee and many streams and less as clean places to search for where someone thrown a weapon or a machete or a kind of weapon that was in a violent crime,” SGT said.

When a rescue mission turns into a recovery mission, the police take over.

“The Lake unit has Sonar, so we work together, and you will usually like it, especially if it is a body. You will carry out your own search patterns and try to find something that looks like it could be what we are looking for, and then you will mark it with the so -called peanut bush and we will set our divers and our original search pattern”. Said Kafena.

Then the divers plunge into the water.

“We use masks with a full face that have calm communication skills, so that we can sometimes talk to each other when we have divers in the water. We are trained on both dry suits and on neoprene suits, so that in places that may have been more environmentally risks or, as I said, less clean, right, but also if we have a winter diving,” SGT, “SGT. “Said Kafena.

When summer is approaching, Kafena said that his 12 -year -old team was ready.

“We are always ready for it. It is a state of eternal readiness,” Sgt said.

You train two to three times a month.

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