A police motor boat has also been sent into the water with two officers on board.
Prosecutors have issued a new update as fresh searches are underway following the disappearance of Madeline McCann.
. Images of Portuguese officers walking along dry tracks near the reservoir and sealing off areas with police tape emerged on Monday.In an update Policia Judiciari said it is co-ordinating searches in the Algarve at the request of German police and in the presence of British officers.
It is not the first time the reservoir has been searched. In 2008, Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragao Correia paid for specialist divers to check the waterway after he claimed to have been tipped off by criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was in the reservoir.
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