{"id":32654,"date":"2015-10-13T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/state-troopers-to-use-underwater-sonar-camera\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:24:33","slug":"state-troopers-to-use-underwater-sonar-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-troopers-to-use-underwater-sonar-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"State Troopers to use underwater sonar camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Alaska State Troopers have a new gadget they say will help with underwater rescue and recovery efforts.<\/p>\n<p>KTVA-TV reported that troopers and Village Public Safety Officers are currently training with a submersible robotic camera that uses sonar to detect underwater objects or bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say it could be particularly handy when divers aren\u2019t available to search Alaska\u2019s murkey rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Similar equipment was used in December, when George Evan and Sally Stone went missing near Bethel during a four-wheeler trip. Authorities used the sonar equipment to find Evan\u2019s body, which was about a quarter of a mile away from where they found the four-wheeler and the body of their traveling companion.<\/p>\n<p>The Kodiak Area Native Association bought the remote operating vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska State Troopers have a new gadget they say will help with underwater rescue and recovery efforts. KTVA-TV reported that troopers and Village Public Safety Officers are currently training with a submersible robotic camera that uses sonar to detect underwater objects or bodies. Troopers say it could be particularly handy when divers aren\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32654"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}