MASSAC COUNTY, ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- Dozens of divers from throughout the Midwest jumped into 2022 with a New Year's Day dive at Mermet Springs.Â
JEFFERSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS (WSIL) -- One person is killed after a boat capsizes in rural Belle Rive.Â
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) � A police boat and divers have joined the search for some 30 people still missing more than a week after severe floods devastated parts of Turkey’s Black Sea coast. The Turkish disaster management agency, meanwhile, raised the death toll from the disaster to 81. Torrential rains pounded the Black Sea provinces
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) � Officials say a free diver’s body has been recovered from the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida Panhandle. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says dive team members found the 31-year old man’s body Thursday in about 75 feet of water near a reef about two miles southwest of Destin Pass. The
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) � Divers have recovered the body of a man who drowned at a lake near Kirksville in northern Missouri. KTVO-TV reports that crews from the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Water Division used sonar equipment at Forest Lake in Thousand Hills State Park on Tuesday to locate the body of 64-year-old Steven Puckett
BLOOMINGTON (IHSA/WSIL) � On August 4, 2021, Governor Pritzker announced an update to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) All-Sports Policy that will require masks to be worn for all indoor IHSA athletic events regardless of an individual’s vaccination status. This mask directive for indoor athletic events applies to student-athletes, coaches, officials, game personnel,
Divers at Mermet Springs take the New Year’s Day plunge, to say goodbye to 2020 and start the new year off with a 24 year old tradition.
Emergency crews are doing an underwater search near the Rend Lake Marina.
