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This is the biggest crock of BS yet.

First of all, these guys are totally unqualified for water rescue, and to suggest that going into a privately owned marina which is owned by a multi billion dollar hedge fund to clean up debris and call it "A TRAINING SESSION" is an embarrassment in itself.

Then to do this on the clock and be paid and hours counted towards overtime (as seen in the front page of the Projo today) as other employees come in to cover them at overtime is egregious. So in the end the taxpayers paid the Warwick Fire Dept. to perform janitorial activities on private property of a private business. Real nice. Make no mistake, they do NOTHING without being compensated and this just stinks worse than the muck on the bottom of the marina.

In addition, to suggest that you are performing a "practice session" for water rescue is such an insult to professional divers and educators. I can see what's next, they will take out the fire boat to go dig clams for a cook out and call it a "training session". This is yet another example of pigs at the trough.

" a training session like this one is more difficult and dangerous when the marina is filled with boats, and Brady wanted to give his team a chance to get familiar with the water." That statement is laughable. I'd like to know what rescue techniques were practiced? What kinds of search patterns were practiced? By evidence of the "dive teams" record of successes, I would offer that they are completely unqualified. I bet none of these guys can even pass a basic watermanship test or basic water survival skills test. What a joke. I wont even get into the incompetence that the "dive team" showed at Hope Island many years back when they were unable to find a diver that perished in 20 feet of water. By the way guys, do you know what PADI stands for??? Put Another Dollar In.

Rob Cote

45 year dive veteran

NAUI Instructor

Instructor Trainer

Nitrox Instructor

Rescue Instructor

Tactical Vessel Assault Instructor

Cousteau team member

20 years as chief experimental test diver for the largest equipment manufacturer in the world

12,000 logged dives

Trained over 1000 people, no accidents, no incidents, no lost equipment