COMMERCIAL DIVERS AND POLICE ASSISTED BY METAL DETECTORS

News Release JW Fishers Manufacturing Inc. September 2, 2011

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE>
<META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18904"></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV>Randive, a commercial diving
company based in New Jersey, is employing
underwater metal detectors in their search and salvage operations. The company
was founded in 1959 by Randor Erlandson, and in the early days focused primarily
on the needs of the maritime industry around the ports of
New York and
New Jersey.  In
the decades since, the company has greatly expanded its operations increasing
its staff to 16, and adding as its clients some of the largest shipping
companies in the world.  They offer a wide range of services
including ship maintenance and repair, inspection and repair of dry docks and
piers, sonar surveys, salvage work, and industrial diving. The company is
affiliated with a number of professional organizations including the Association
of Diving Contractors International and the Society of
Maritime
Port
Engineers.
   
Randive uses their metal detector to assist in locating pipelines,
anchors, chains, propellers, and other lost or missing metal
objects.  Recently the company was hired to find an 8 foot
wide stainless steel propeller lost from a towboat. Apparently the prop shaft
broke when the propeller struck a submerged object. Although the prop was deeply
buried in the mud, Randive’s experienced divers were able to find it using their
JW Fishers Pulse 8X detector. Another project where the company was helped by
use of the detector was in the location and tracking of a pipeline running under
the Hudson River near
Manhattan. For this job, divers
attached the 16 inch search coil to the detector’s electronics unit to provide
greater penetration into the soft muddy bottom.  After
successful completion of the project Randive’s VP of Operations Keith Michalski
reported, “The 8X is excellent. It’s very sensitive, easy to use, and it takes a
beating!”
  
Commercial divers are not the only ones using underwater detectors, a
number of law enforcement and public safety dive teams are putting these devices
to work in their search operations. State Police dive teams in
New York,
New Jersey, and throughout
New England are using the Pulse 8X
to locate weapons used in the commission of crimes and disposed of in a
waterway.  Criminals mistakenly believe that by throwing a gun
or knife into a river or lake, it will be lost forever. In reality, law
enforcement divers equipped with an underwater metal detector easily find these
weapons.  Detectors can also assist in the recovery of
evidence as witnessed by Lt. Joshua Gibbs of Daphne
County Search and Rescue in
Alabama. 
Daphne S&R is an all volunteer first responder team providing water
search and rescue missions on Mobile Bay and the Five Rivers Delta, an area
encompassing more than 300 square miles.  The group works and
trains with the US Coast Guard,
Baldwin
County Sheriff Flotilla,
Alabama Marine Police, and
local fire departments.  
   
According to Lt. Gibbs, the team used a metal detector to locate
industrial tools that were taken in a burglary at a commercial construction
business, and then dumped in a pond.  “The robbers assumed the
tools would never be found due to the remote location of the site, and the fact
they would be covered by water and sediment.  With the help of
our Pulse 8X we were able to locate and recover more than two dozen pieces of
stolen property, which became the evidence used in the prosecution of several
robbery suspects.”
   
For more information on Randive commercial diving services go to
www.randive.com.  For more information on Daphne Search and
Rescue go to www.daphnesar.org.  For more information on JW
Fishers underwater search equipment go to <A
href="redir.aspx?C=da8be85b2a924d83af429e454e14bee2&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jwfishers.com%2f"
target=_blank>www.jwfishers.com</A>.</DIV></BODY></HTML>