Searches continue by Claudia Sonea

The Minneapolis bridge wreckage was a terrible one with about 100 people hurt, eight people declared missing and perhaps there are more in the water. Five of them were confirmed to be dead. Local search crews complained about the fact that they are not prepared to face all the difficulties that the rivers pose. That is why an elite team of Navy divers with an FBI dive crew, doing forensic work and five-member command crew joined the search and rescue mission. Minneapolis Police Capt. Mike cheered the divers and was amazed that they have entered in the water at night, but that made them look way better than SWAT. Both Phil Newsum, executive director of the Association of Diving Contractors International, and Mark Phillips, owner and publisher of PS Diver Monthly, talked about the difficulty of diving in Mississippi because of the pieces of debris and the mud that makes the visibility to be zero. The team also assisted disasters like TWA Flight 800, loss of the space shuttle Columbia, reclamation of historic sunken ship the Monitor, etc. They will use its sonar in order to find objects under water matching human bodies. It will all be like blind people and mostly based on the sense. A moment of silence was held on Tuesday for the disaster's victims. Plans to rebuild the bridge are already on the table, according to state officials. Tim Pawlenty, the Governor, plans a compensation fund for victims; also he said he does not want to hurry in reconstructing the monument, because everything must be under the sign of safety. Light a candle for those lost on the river to find their why and for those that are searching them and let's keep a moment of silence too.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_re_us/bridge_collapse;_ylt=AlhuL2ZvyUnxA8VxYnRHTrqs0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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