K9-Handler
New
New member, new dive student. 
Taking open water dives this weekend.
I'm a search and rescue K9 handler with a statewide volunteer group in Connecticut. As hard as it is to believe, dogs can find people underwater. Working from the bow of low boats they can pick up the scent of a drowning victim as it comes up and breaks the surface of the water.
Public Safety dive teams are more than willing to come out and do a recovery for us, but are hesitant to spend the time necessary to train the dogs to locate the subjects that they want to recover! So a few of our members are already certified divers, and a couple of us are training, and we will have our own divers to submerge and let the dogs find us. If they do a good job we surface and give them part of a hotdog!
See? You learned something today....
Taking open water dives this weekend.I'm a search and rescue K9 handler with a statewide volunteer group in Connecticut. As hard as it is to believe, dogs can find people underwater. Working from the bow of low boats they can pick up the scent of a drowning victim as it comes up and breaks the surface of the water.
Public Safety dive teams are more than willing to come out and do a recovery for us, but are hesitant to spend the time necessary to train the dogs to locate the subjects that they want to recover! So a few of our members are already certified divers, and a couple of us are training, and we will have our own divers to submerge and let the dogs find us. If they do a good job we surface and give them part of a hotdog!
See? You learned something today....
