Shelton Police Department Dive Team

Dive Team

Team Members

Sgt. Adams Sgt. Millington Officer Bango Officer McClain Officer Murad Officer Serrano Officer Sherman Officer Michael Curran Officer Brian Iacuone

The Shelton Police Department Dive Team is responsible for water search, rescue and recovery within the City of Shelton and to assist other surrounding towns as needed. The City of Shelton has numerous lakes and reservoirs within the City limits, as well as the Housatonic River and the Canal Street Canals. The Housatonic River is a busy water way for recreational boaters from Shelton's three marinas, as well as home for the Yale University and Fairfield University Crew Teams. Also located along the Housatonic's Shelton shoreline is Indian Well State Park. The Shelton Police Dive Team is the Primary Dive Team for Sikorsky Aircraft and the D.E.P.'s Shelton area.

The Shelton Police Dive Team trains once a month in various locations including the Shelton Community Center Pool. The Dive Team has also been aggressively upgrading its equipment in the past year including positive pressure AGA masks with Buddy Phone Communications. This allows the team to talk to each other underwater and to the team leader on shore. The team has also added dry suits to its equipment that will allow for dives in colder water as well as protecting members for contaminants in the water.

In early 2006, Echo Hose Ambulance Corps donated a retired ambulance to the Shelton Police Department. This vehicle will be outfitted for Emergency Services. One of the uses of this vehicle will be to transport divers and their equipment to call outs and training.

In 2002, the Shelton Police Dive Team was called into service only once. The detail was for an evidence search in the Naugatuck River in Derby. While Derby has a dive team, the Shelton Police Department, with Derby's assistance, conducted the search as the evidence was for a Shelton case.

In late April of 2003, the Dive Team was called out to search and recover a suitcase from the Canal Street Canal. A witness stated that a male threw the suitcase into the canal. The suitcase contained one item that may be from a burglary. In June 2003, members of the team assisted in the recovery of a carnival trailer that rolled into the Housatonic River along the Riverwalk.

In 2005, the Shelton Police Dive Team was called out to assist D.E.P. in recovering lost items off of a boat ramp and sunken anchor posts at Indian Well State Park. The Dive Team also responded to Derby for a vehicle in the water, that ended up being unoccupied. Also in Derby, the Dive Team recovered evidence in a Shelton Burglary out of a canal. Unfortunately, the Dive Team was also called out for a drowning victim at the end of the summer at Indian Well State Park.

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