{"id":26785,"date":"2025-10-30T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26785\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:06:08","slug":"otter-ly-amazing-meet-mcsos-newest-helper-in-search-and-recovery-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/26785\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;OTTER-LY&#8217; AMAZING! Meet MCSO&#8217;s newest helper in search and recovery efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (MCSO) has a new helper to assist in search and recovery efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Meet &#8220;Splash&#8221;\u2014 the nation&#8217;s first search and recovery otter. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761843968_47_\" alt=\"Splash the otter \"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MCSO<\/p>\n<p>The 2-year-old Asian small-clawed otter is trained in scent detection and recovery work, and his sharp senses will help MCSO in locating people who are lost in bodies of water.<\/p>\n<p>Splash was trained by Micheal Hadsell, from Peace River K9 Search and Rescue, a Southwest Florida\u2013based nonprofit. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re grateful to Peace River K9 Search and Rescue for visiting and sharing their innovative approach to recovery operations,&#8221; MCSO wrote. &#8220;Sheriff Budensiek said it best \u2014 partnerships like this showcase how creativity and collaboration can help solve crimes even in the toughest environmental conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (MCSO) has a new helper to assist in search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,1160,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":{"0":"post-26785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-martin-county","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","13":"tag-treasure-coast","14":"tag-wptv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}