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Midwest Regional Dive Team The Midwest Regional Dive Team (MWRDT) is organized to provide water rescue and recovery for the citizens of our surrounding communities.

Welcome to The Midwest Regional Dive Team Page! Our previous page was administered by a member that is no longer part of the team. Since we have been unable to obtain administative access, we found it necessary to create a new page in order to keep our communities updated on the work and trainings we are doing, and receive the messages being sent to us. A little about us:

We are a Dive Team for water emergency, rescue, recovery and underwater investigation. Our team consists of members of:
Red Oak Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association, Inc. Clarinda Fire & Rescue Department
Adams County Water Emergency Team (W.E.T.) Corning Fire Department
Ringgold County Water Emergency Team (W.E.T.) Cass County Sheriff’s Office

Executive Board Members:
Red Oak - Greg Vetter
Clarinda - Neil Ohden
Corning - Les Helvie
Ringgold - Ed Rotert
Cass - Eric Steffenson

Please feel free to message us if we can assist with any of our services in your communities.

06/13/2026

TAYLOR COUNTY, Iowa — Authorities say the body of a fisherman was recovered from a southern Iowa lake Friday afternoon. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says shortly before 3 p.m. on …

06/07/2026

Ringgold County officials said search crews recovered Ronald Brown’s body Sunday after he was reported missing at Sun Valley Lake.

The Midwest Regional Dive Team was deployed to Sun Valley Lake in Ringgold County on Saturday in support of the Ringgold...
06/07/2026

The Midwest Regional Dive Team was deployed to Sun Valley Lake in Ringgold County on Saturday in support of the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office following a report of a missing male subject. Search operations continued through Saturday with assistance from multiple agencies.

On Sunday morning, dive team personnel were able to locate and recover the subject from the lake at approximately 11:20 a.m.

Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time.

06/07/2026

UPDATE 2-P.M. 6/7/26: Search teams have recovered the body of missing man from a SW IA lake

(Mount Ayr, IA) – The Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office, Sunday, said search/rescue crews had recovered the body from a lake, of a man missing since late Saturday morning. Members of the Midwest Regional Dive Team, including the Ringgold Community Water Emergency Team, searched Sun Valley Lake and the surrounding area in northeastern Ringgold County, late Saturday afternoon, for a man last seen at the lake at around 7-a.m., Saturday. 70-year-old Ronald Brown, from West Des Moines, was reported missing at around 10:50-a.m., Saturday.

On Sunday (June 7th), search/dive teams resumed their search of Sun Valley Lake at around 9:15-a.m., and at 11:20-a.m., recovered Brown's body.

In a statement on social media, the Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office extended its sincere appreciation to all agencies and individuals who assisted in the search and recovery efforts, including: The Midwest Regional Dive Team; Iowa State Patrol; Ringgold County Hospital; Iowa DNR; Sun Valley Lake Patrol, and the Mount Ayr Fire Department.

They extended a special “Thank you” to the Mount Ayr Embers for generously providing food and water to first responders and search personnel throughout the [search/rescue] operation.

Below: This image is from a post by Kelli Leonard, of her father -the missing man – Ron Brown that was shared on the Mount Ayr Volunteer Fire Department and Ember’s page

Source: WOWT
02/24/2026

Source: WOWT

Dive teams searched the lake at Prairie Rose State Park over fears that someone fell through the ice.

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