Divers from several local agencies combed the bed of the York River Friday for guns and a mannequin, just off the beach behind the Watermen’s Museum.
Nothing nefarious had happened, though. Dive trainers planted the spray-painted BB guns and the mannequin for trainee divers to find. So if you’re planning an excursion to Yorktown Beach, don’t worry about coming across those items — they were able to recover them.
“Target found,” came the voice of diver Crystal Andrews, a James City County firefighter. About 60 feet below the surface, Andrews informed about 10 public safety officials she’d found the mannequin that was standing in as a drowning victim.
About twenty local police officers, deputies and firefighters spent the week participating in the public safety dive training at locations across the Peninsula.