Sonar Equipment Helps Lubbock Dive Team
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: July 22, 2009
Monday, a 35-year-old man drowned at Lake Alan Henry and it was members of Lubbock's Dive Team who were able to recover his body using sonar technology.
The team usually employs the sonar for such jobs as pulling cars out of Lubbock playa lakes, but the equipment was actually bought to use in search and recovery operations like we saw on Monday.
Lt. Matt McGinnis says diving in general is risky, but doing so in Lake Alan Henry is particulary dangerous, that's why the equipment is so valuable.
"The sonar's been very helpful in allowing us to locate something much more quickly than we would otherwise trying to do search patterns across a big old lake like Alan Henry," Lubbock Dive Team member, Lt. Matt McGinnis, says.
Lt. McGinnis tells us the team has been very successful in their search missions.
He says they recover what they're looking for, more often than not.
