An underwater video shows the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department dive team conducting a training exercise. Lt. Victor Banuelos discusses the team's regular training and preparedness for challenging rescue situations, drawing parallels to the recent tragic mid-air collision near Regan International. He highlights the difficulties of underwater visibility in San Diego Bay and the importance of technology like sonar.
SAN DIEGO – Down in the depths off of Mission Beach, an underwater video shows a training exercise with the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department dive team.'This whole region works together well. We train regularly,” Lt. Victor Banuelos of the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department said. 'Every March, April, we have a mass rescue operation that we all participate in and we test our skills.'Banuelos has been on the dive team for 15 years.
'It's such a tragic loss and our hearts go out to all the victims and anyone that's affected by that.'ABC 10News spoke with Lieutenant Banuelos about how an effort like this would look like if this happened in San Diego Bay.'If you're lucky, you might have visibility. If you have a crash or anything like that, disrupts the bottom, San Diego Bay is compromised of silt at the bottom.
DIVING RESCUE TRAINING PORT OF SAN DIEGO UNDERWATER OPERATIONS
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