Diana is a diver, a key piece in the relentless search of people missing due to the DANA that devastated Valencia on October 29. Like her, emergency professionals who have traveled here voluntarily search inch by inch in the aquatic environment with the help, in some cases, of dogs and always with an unbreakable will.
He has arrived with 29 other professional divers from different parts of Spain to help locate bodies, a task that has taken them, for example, to the town of Torrent to try to find, among others, to little Rubén and Izan in coordination with health workers, firefighters and other members of rescue teams.
Before starting your work listen carefully to the instructions of the device coordinator and explains the details of the equipment they carry, which allows them to immerse themselves without completely immersing themselves in the work of marking spaces that can later be traced by other professionals.
“For Valencia, whatever it takes”
Along with her and to remain in the area until Sunday, troops from places like San Sebastián or Barcelona have come, like Andrés, who knows this entire area because he lived for five years in El Perellonet and assures: “For Valencia, whatever it takes.”
Manuel, who has traveled from Ireland upon hearing the DANA news, explains that searching in the water is always difficult. “At this point, if there are submerged bodies They should start to rise and floatdue to the passing of the days. If they don’t do it, it’s because there is something that is blocking them,” he details.
“It’s what we know how to do best and the best way to help,” says Diana, who is grateful that other people do it through “the work that each one can do,” such as providing food or lodging, something that has come to their attention. them personally with companies that “they are going out of their way to help”for example in the municipality of Alfafar, where showers and equipment cleaning and hygiene items have been made available.
Mud, a great obstacle
Jordi is a firefighter from the Generalitat of Catalonia who, in his private capacity and as a volunteer for an NGO, has arrived in Valencia to search for bodies in the water with the help of Duna, a specialized dog in the discovery of corpses in the aquatic environment.
“The advantage of the dog is that he can locate through the air and water any indication that there may be a corpse,” explains Jordi, who details that, in places like Albufera, one of the points on which he is concentrating the search, “The area is thick” and they cannot access it.
The animal does this work from the outside, although the situation with the mud “is also difficult for dogs.” “They are experts in the mud and your nose is what defines the searchbut in this case it is so dense that it makes it very difficult,” explains the firefighter, who assures that the dogs’ sense of smell “can help” and defines the work of the divers as “exceptional.”
They mark the places where they dive
When one of these animals points out a point where it believes a body may be found, the place is marked so that diversfor example from the Special Group of Underwater Activities (GEAS) of the Civil Guard, with whom they are working together on this case, can try to locate it.
“There are divers, rescuers who comb all the areas and boats that work visually, to which are added the dogs,” says Jordi, who has previously participated in emergency operations such as the earthquakes in Turkey or Morocco and floods in Libya. , but it says that “I’ve never seen anything like it” to what happened with this DANA.
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