They are looking in the sea with a sonar
Texas Equusearch group is back in Aruba
DIARIO Aruba
10/25/2005

ORANJESTAD (AAN): The group of search experts, Texas Equusearch, is back in Aruba.

A group of 8 people is present to continue the search specially directed at the sea on the west coast of Aruba. They are looking for the Alabama student, Natalee Holloway, who has been missing for some 5 months.

Monday they went in the sea one more time, aboard the Siegfried Edmundis of the SARFA [Search and Rescue Foundation Aruba]. There were some Americans who are side-scan sonar specialists. With this special machine, any object can be located underwater.

They looked from Palm Beach until Arashi, and a maximum of 1 mile away from the coast.

There are about 8 people from Texas Equusearch in Aruba. The place where they are looking is between the high-rise hotels until Arashi. They navigated parallel [to the beach] to cover one area without losing their place.

Aside from the SARFA boat, they have another boat which follows them at a distance and on board [this boat] there are diving experts. In the event that the side-scan sonar detects something suspicious, they immediately stop and some scuba divers go down and the SARFA boat with the sonar follows them.

Why the focus on this area? At the time that the fishermen’s huts were broken into, apparently the FBI has extracted (including the declaration of a fisherman) that there was a large basket [fish trap] in one of these huts, as well as one knife. The possibility that they are looking for this basket in this side of the sea has not been discarded.

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