JW Fishers Showcases Tech for Firefighters
Present day fire departments not only fight fires, but also answer medical calls, conduct rescue missions, assisting in evidence recovery, and execute underwater search operations. Underwater equipment manufacturer JW Fishers Manufacturing provides tools for fire departments across the globe.In April of 2018, JW Fishers attended the annual Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) in Indianapolis, Indiana. The first conference was held in 1929 in Chicago and was organized to discuss training measures, standards and firefighting best practices. By 1939, attendance had reached a high of 247 people
Fishers Equipment Helps Locate Weapons and Explosives
. Their instructors combine knowledge with experience in the use of state of the equipment. The detectors both companies are using in their evidence recovery training are JW Fishers Pulse 8X. Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office in Minnesota is employing this technology in their underwater search operations. Dive Team Leader Steve Sutton-Brown reports using Fishers new SAR-1 detector in a recent training exercise. “We’re regularly called on to search for evidence such as guns, knives, bullet casings, etc. We generally dive in visibility that is zero to one foot, which is one of
Dive Teams Depend on Detection Devices
Press Release -- Public safety dive teams depend on sonars, ROVs and underwater metal detectors to accomplish underwater search operations safely and effectively, says underwater search systems designer and manufacturer JW Fishers Mfg. When a New York man accidentally fell from a concrete ledge into the Genesee River, the Rochester Police dive team was immediately dispatched. The incident commander made the decision to deploy a SCAN-650 scanning sonar recently acquired from JW Fishers. The sonar transmits a sound wave that sweeps a circle up to 200 feet in diameter. The wave bounces off
Third Fugro Vessel to Join MH370 Search
. The 70-meter vessel is equipped with specialist deep tow survey systems including side scan sonar and underwater video as well as aviation fuel detection sensors. Fugro Equator was reconfigured to accommodate similar specialist equipment and has been mobilized to the search area to join the underwater search operations. In addition to locating the missing Boeing 777 aircraft, the underwater search aims to map the MH370 debris field in order to identify and prioritize the recovery of specific aircraft components, including flight data recorders, which will assist with the Malaysian investigation
Police and Dive Teams Rely on Underwater Search Equipment
, safer, and faster. Maricopa Sheriffs Department in Arizona, Downe Township Fire Rescue in New Jersey, the Fairhaven Massachusetts Harbor Master and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are a few of the diverse group of agencies using metal detectors, video cameras and sonars in their underwater search operations. Deputy Jeff Hanson, leader of the Maricopa County Sheriffs Department dive team, reported his group had been searching for almost a month, without success, for a small plane that went down in a local lake. The team then borrowed a JW Fishers TOV-1 towed video system from a neighboring
February 2025
