Minnehaha County Emergency Management Dive Operations

Minnehaha County Emergency Management Dive Operations Volunteer Dive Rescue and Recovery Team for Minnehaha County, South Dakota. This page is to promote a branch of the Minnehaha County Emergency Management.

We are an all volunteer Dive Team that may be called out to a scene by text message 24 hours a day seven days a week. Responding to the scene from anywhere, the Team equipment trailer is delivered for us by the Rescue Squad. We perform recoveries of vehicles (boats, cars, and ATV's.) Additionally, we perform body and evidence recoveries assisting/supporting local law enforcement. Our most public

functions are assisting with the Sioux Falls and Brandon Polar Plunge events, where we assist jumpers in the very cold water to the exit. Assisting the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks with installing and removing the Swim Beach Buoys at Wall Lake, is another example of our community involvement. This process is very helpful training for us, as we use search techniques in locating pins in the bottom and using hand tools to attach and remove the buoys from the pins. The MCEM Dive Team meets every second Thursday of the month at the Emergency Management Building. During the winter months our meeting starts at 19:00 hrs. and during the summer at 18:00 hrs.

03/02/2025

Video from diver Greg during the team’s ice dive training in February.

02/23/2025
Photos from last night’s dive
08/09/2024

Photos from last night’s dive

07/13/2024

Training at Cherry Lake

June dive
06/29/2024

June dive

Training this past week with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue at Covell Lake.
05/12/2024

Training this past week with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue at Covell Lake.

Annual skills assessments and navigating through entanglement props kept our divers occupied this past month.
03/21/2024

Annual skills assessments and navigating through entanglement props kept our divers occupied this past month.

This past weekend members of our team joined Sioux Falls Fire Rescue in a dive rescue training course with Dive Rescue I...
08/31/2023

This past weekend members of our team joined Sioux Falls Fire Rescue in a dive rescue training course with Dive Rescue International - Public Safety. This course included classroom work and practicing skills in the pool and lake. Solid work done by all participants!

Team practice dive at Palisades State Park
08/11/2023

Team practice dive at Palisades State Park

Great training tonight at Cherry Lake with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue
07/14/2023

Great training tonight at Cherry Lake with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue

02/16/2023

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608 N Sigler Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD
57104

Telephone

(605) 367-4290

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