Does the IUCRR respond to call-outs for any diver rescue/recovery?

No. A large fraction of law enforcement agencies have qualified divers that can perform the tasks associated with an open-water rescue/recovery. IUCRR members provide a highly technical, very specialized support task that only a handful of law enforcement agencies have available to them internally. The only open-water environment the IUCRR divers will provide support for would be for very deep open-water venues where the recovery of the victim would result in the recovery divers incurring extended decompression obligations. This is what is called a virtual overhead. In situations like that, the IUCRR members may provide operational support.

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