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On June 17, 2017, the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services (HCDFRS) in Maryland responded to a call to assist with the search for a missing swimmer. The jurisdiction having authority requested assistance from HCDFRS’ Special Operations Team after reviewing operations from their previous water recovery on June 13, 2017, with their VideoRay ROV.

The ROV was deployed into the lake off a dock and conducted an all-sonar search. The body was quickly found and recovered using the manipulator arm. Because of the fast deployment, trained ROV operators, and enhanced capabilities of the VideoRay ROV, both this incident and the previous one on June 13 were quickly resolved before the arrival and deployment of SCUBA divers.