- Date
- 1988-09-12
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Saint James Harbor
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- public-serviceemergency-managementmaritimeeducationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Michigan State Police underwater-recovery personnel trained around Beaver Island from September 12–16, 1988. The exercise recreated a 1982 drowning search with a grid pattern and included Coast Guard transport of divers and equipment.
Evidence limits
The article describes a training scenario, not a new incident or a finding about the 1982 case.
Sources
- Reports September 12–16 Dive Master training by the Michigan State Police Underwater Recovery Unit, including a grid-search recreation of the 1982 Indian boys drowning scenario, Coast Guard airlift of seven divers and equipment, and dives near other islands. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held twenty-two-page September issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the training report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan State Police conduct underwater-recovery training off Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-state-police-underwater-recovery-training-1988/, accessed [date], citing State Police came to dive on Beaver Island, Beaver Beacon, September 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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