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Throughout this week, members of Manitoba and Saskatchewan’s RCMP underwater recovery team have been conducting their ice diving re-qualification training under the frozen Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park.
The teams are made up of regular RCMP officers based across both provinces who, in addition to their regular duties, are on call when their respective underwater recovery teams are needed. Each team has a full-time URT co-ordinator — Cpl. Kathryn Ternier in Manitoba and Cpl. Jamie Diemert in Saskatchewan.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan conduct their training and re-qualifications together, three times a year, and also assist each other when necessary on underwater recoveries. Together, the two dive teams cover Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories as well as assist in other provinces by request.
Const. Caro Giroux (Saskatchewan RCMP) and Cpl. Kathryn Ternier, the recovery team co-ordinator with RCMP D Division in Winnipeg, help Const. Matthew Bedore (Saskatchewan RCMP) to a seat after a dive on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
On Monday, the team members arrived at Riding Mountain National Park and prepared the site on the lake near the Clear Lake Golf Course for their training, including cutting a hole in the ice for divers to enter the water.
On Tuesday, sets of two divers took turns doing emergency drills, which included searches when a team diver gets lost underwater.
Training, which also involves some classroom instruction, is expected to wrap up today with members returning to their home detachments tomorrow.
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Cpl. Kathryn Ternier, the recovery team co-ordinator with RCMP D Division in Winnipeg, enters the tent used for underwater recovery training re-qualification on Tuesday at Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Sgt. Greg Fast (Saskatchewan RCMP) reviews details with Cpl. Justin Nichols (Manitoba RCMP) prior to Nichols' dive on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Sgt. Will Picard (Saskatchewan RCMP) and Cpl. Justin Nichols (Manitoba RCMP) get into the water to take turns searching for each other during ice diving re-qualification for members of Manitoba and Saskatchewan's RCMP dive teams at Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Sgt. Will Picard with Saskatchewan RCMP rests against the ice while waiting to do an underwater search during ice diving re-qualification for members of Manitoba and Saskatchewan's RCMP dive teams at Clear Lake in Riding Mountain National Park on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Sgt. Greg Fast (Saskatchewan RCMP) instructs a diver in the water on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Const. Caro Giroux (Saskatchewan RCMP) holds lines as two divers prepare to descend under the ice on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)