Rescue and Recovery Dive Team
SCRS Dive Team
The Sangamon County Rescue Dive Team is committed to water safety and awareness. The team is available for rapid response to provide governmental agencies and families with rescue and recovery services throughout sangamon County and nation wide if requested.
Our volunteer members are law enforcement, military, professional divers and EMT/paramedic personnel who are highly trained and proficient at meeting the challenges of underwater world.
The team also provides Public Safety Dive training and consulting, dive rescue/recovery, swiftwater rescue, on-site standby water rescue and evidence recovery services. Water safety and awareness education is another major thrust of the team’s mission. The Sangamon County Rescue team does not receive governmental or tax-based funding but operates on membership funding and donations.
Much of the team’s work is not seen by the public, including the hundreds of hours of technical training required to obtain Public Safety Diver certifications and our underwater efforts. That does not mean the Sangamon County Rescue Dive Team is “out of sight, out of mind” as the services provided by the team are extremely important. The team touches entire communities as they bring home victims of drowning and assist law enforcement agencies in recovering evidence that helps bring justice to crime victims.
The Sangamon County Rescue and Dive team exists to reduce the number of water related incidents and deaths by providing water safety awareness and education, swiftwater rescue, dive rescue and recovery services, and public safety dive consulting.(Photo Gallery Click here)
When I’m called for duty God
to dive beneath the waves.
To search for an unfortunate soul
whose body they have claimed.
Let swiftness be my virtue
to find that soul in time.
Please let this be a rescue lord
and not the other “kind”
Be my eyes in the darkest lake
and guide me with your hand
that this person may be saved
when we return to land.
If this is not your will Lord
then please show me the way
to sort out this sad mystery
and to dive another day.
If things become the darkest Lord
and it’s I that you call home
please guide my friends and family
that they’ll never walk alone.