There's exotic places to dive, and then there is exotic diving.Earlier this year, Chris Burden '98 of Hemet, Calif., trained to become an ice diver for his job as an investigator with the Riverside County Sheriff Department, including its Underwater Search and Recovery Team. His other duties fall within the department's Professional Standards Bureau.
Notice his TCU headgear.
He posed for this photo in March 2011 at Gull Lake, Calif., where he trained at an altitude of 7,000 feet. "I wonder if ol' Dutch Meyer was referring to this kind of ice?" Burden jokes. The training enabled Burden to become certified as a Level 1 FEMA Dive Team, which allows his squad to be deployed anywhere for public safety related disasters or crime scenes on a national scale.
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